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Drawing

Barman — Bob

Date: 1932
Description: Bob bartending at the Press Grill.
Drawing

Barman — Jack

Date: 1932
Description: Jack bartending at The Dizzy Club.
Drawing

Barman — Otto

Date: 1932
Description: Otto the barman from the perspective of a person on other side of the bar whose hands are shown reaching for eleven mugs of beer. The establishment is Zum ...
Photograph

Cutting the Cheese

Date: 1950
Description: Wisconsin Department of Agriculture workers cut large blocks of Swiss cheese.
Photograph

Herman Straus and Son

Date: 10 13 1937
Description: Herman Straus and son standing in front of printing press at Straus Printing Co., 214 East Washington Avenue.
Photograph

Toledo Computogram Scale with Tradesman

Date: 05 20 1931
Description: Interior view of a Toledo Computogram scale on a counter in a Dodgeville store, with the grocer weighing bananas. In the background is a display of merchan...
Photograph

Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Club on Train

Date: 1896
Description: Members of the University of Wisconsin Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Club posing at the rear of a train during the Spring Tour of 1896. Railroad employees and o...
Photograph

Men Preparing Publications at Harvester Press

Date: 1920
Description: Men preparing publications at Harvester Press, International Harvester's in-house print shop.
Photograph

Dairy Department

Date: 1915
Description: Max Ballard at the separator and Harvie Connell churning in the dairy department of the Pickens County High School.
Photograph

Summer Vacation Jobs for Youth

Date: 07 12 1949
Description: Dave Moran, a senior at West High School, has a summer job working at a local confectionery at the soda fountain and waiting on tables.
Photograph

Max Waln at Millins Supermarket

Date: 12 07 1953
Description: Portrait of Max Waln, with bowtie, the owner and manager of Millins Supermarket, located at 553 West Main Street. The market was formerly known as Vincent ...
Photograph

John Troia at Millins Supermarket

Date: 12 07 1953
Description: Portrait of John Troia, with bowtie, the manager of Millins Supermarket. The market was located at 553 West Main Street and formerly known as Vincent Troia...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Red Cross Fundraising Drive

Date: 03 12 1956
Description: University of Wisconsin Ph.D. student Peter E. Graf of Syracuse, New York does a laboratory experiment. He is a member of the Red Cross "Two Gallon Blood D...
Photograph

U.S. Rubber Company Exhibit

Date: 01 30 1959
Description: Seven men stand behind a table displaying rubber boots. They are each wearing a tall white hat with the words: "I'm a Butter Cook" and an apron with the pe...
Photograph

Sherwin and Emma Gillett's 50th Wedding Anniversary

Date: 1956
Description: Guests gathered for Sherwin and Emma Gillett's 50 Wedding Anniversary banquet.
Photograph

A Turkey at Krueger's

Date: 1925
Description: A man wearing a cap and apron holds a (likely taxidermied) Tom turkey while a second man offers the turkey a drink from a bottle. Wooden boxes labelled "Ol...
Photograph

Young Lumber Mechanics

Date: 1921
Description: Group portrait of timber mechanics outdoors at the Forest Products Laboratory.
Print

Gridiron Club Menu

Date: 12 09 1950
Description: Gridiron Club menu, mounted on board, with a cartoon by Jim (James Thomas) Berryman of club president Tom Stokes in suit and tie, chef's toque, pleated apr...
Book or Pamphlet

Kentucky Advertising Cuts — Vehicles, Hardware

Date: 1913
Description: Features at the top a black and white illustration of a man and woman sitting on a carriage seat (side view). The man is wearing gloves and is holding the ...
Photograph

Posing on the Cooks Tent

Date: 1912
Description: View looking down from riverbank of four businessmen and the log driving cook posing on the cooks tent barge during the log drive.

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