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W.T. Grant Company Employees' Party

Date: 10 27 1932
Description: Employees of the W.T. Grant Company, 21 S. Pinckney Street, in costumes at their Halloween party.
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Display Window of Hankscraft Egg Cooker

Date: 01 18 1929
Description: A woman demonstrates how to use a Hankscraft egg cooker in a mock Easter display window with Easter bunnies and Easter eggs.
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Groundbreaking Ceremony

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Description: Developers, local dignitaries, and other businessmen participate in a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the Park Tower Apartments.
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Helena Greenheck

Date: 03 10 1950
Description: Antique dealer Helena Greenheck, Highway 130, standing in front of a collection of glassware.
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Men Shaking Hands over Contract

Date: 04 1913
Description: Professor Perry Holden and Governor Luther Egbert Hall shake hands over a contract to grow 100,000,000 bushels of corn in Louisiana in 1913. A group of men...
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Pure Oil Farewell Dinner

Date: 01 31 1957
Description: William E. Brobst, center, master of ceremonies, at a farewell dinner for 20 members of the Pure Oil Co. Madison office who are leaving the company or are ...
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Pure Oil Farewell Dinner

Date: 01 31 1957
Description: Left to right are: James Meyers, Martin Bliese, Ole Gunderson, and Keith Blechlin, all of whom are being transferred from the Madison Pure Oil Co. office.
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Pure Oil Farewell Dinner

Date: 01 31 1957
Description: Mrs. Jack McCarron (left), Mae Boyd, Mrs. Irv Skoyen and Mrs. D.W. Kirner, employees of the Pure Oil Co. Madison office, are leaving the company or being t...
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Pure Oil Farewell Dinner

Date: 01 31 1957
Description: Group portrait of four of the twenty employees staying in Madison with the Pure Oil Co. They include, from left: Knowlton Levernick, H.C. Hoff, J.M. Beveri...
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Madison Improvement Corporation Meeting

Date: 06 16 1958
Description: Leaders in the Madison metropolitan area met to learn more about the Madison Improvement Corporation, whose purpose is to buy and develop land for the expa...
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Ozark Air Lines Starts Madison Flights

Date: 03 01 1959
Description: A group of men posing in front of an engine and under the fuselage of a DC-3 air liner. The original caption states: "Cutting the tape for the inaugural fl...
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Bank of Madison Charge Account Anniversary

Date: 09 27 1960
Description: Men and women attend a breakfast in honor of the first anniversary of the Bank of Madison charge account program. They include, from left to right: Robert ...
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Contractors 'Spahnferckel'

Date: 11 14 1960
Description: Present at the Contractors 'Sphanferkel,' a pork roast feast at which contractors meet socially with manufacturers, suppliers, and sales representatives wi...
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Contractors 'Spahnferckel'

Date: 11 14 1960
Description: Present at the Contractors 'Sphanferkel,' a pork roast feast at which contractors meet socially with manufacturers, suppliers and sales representatives wit...
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Contractors "Spahnferckel"

Date: 11 14 1960
Description: Four contractors are wearing chef's hats and aprons while showing off a roast suckling pig. They are, left to right: Dewey Badeau, Herman Hinrichs, Henry J...
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Contractors 'Spahnferkel'

Date: 11 14 1960
Description: Visiting at the Contractors 'Sphanferkel,' a pork roast feast at which contractors meet socially with manufacturers, suppliers and sales representatives wi...
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Badger Bowl Grand Opening

Date: 03 12 1961
Description: Group portrait of seven people at Stoughton's Badger Bowl bowling alley grand opening. At center wearing a bowling shirt is Harry Smith, 1960 national All-...
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Madison Board of Realtors and Madison Building Association

Date: 04 05 1961
Description: Members of the Madison Board of Realtors and the Madison Building Association shared a handshake to form joint committees to work on problems of common int...
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Management Night Banquet

Date: 04 16 1964
Description: Four businessmen at the Management Night Banquet visiting with the speaker, W. Grady Clark, second from left. They are, left to right, James Cotter, vice-p...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Three boys are pressing their noses to the window of a pet shop on a busy Monroe Street, while viewing five rabbits. Two boys have their thumbs in their ea...

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