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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Women office workers file and take phone calls in a busy shared work space. |
| Date: | 07 27 1988 |
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| Description: | Cousins set up a road-side stand to sell fruits and vegetables grown by their grandfather. |
| Date: | 08 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Telephone line repairmen preparing to work on a residential line. One is climbing a ladder and the other is setting up a soldering unit. Their Internationa... |
| Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of five women workers in an Oscar Mayer Company test kitchen and laboratory. A low wall is separating two women working at desks on ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from road of the Buena Vista House. There is a utility pole in front with many wires attached. This Greek revival inn was erected in 1843 by Samuel R.... |
| Date: | 08 1924 |
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| Description: | Trees and electric power lines are along a road. There are two automobiles being driven in opposite directions on Dixie Highway. |
| Date: | 01 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Twin sisters Patricia (left) and Nancy Coughlin in matching formal dresses. They are posing indoors and are wearing matching chokers around their necks and... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Posed view of a patient room in the recently constructed Methodist Hospital, showing a nurse on the telephone near a bed, and a doctor and elderly patient ... |
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| Description: | View toward a boy with his bicycle at the entrance to Putnam Hill Park on the left. There are telephone poles and trees in the center, street railroad trac... |
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| Description: | A view of south Sixth Avenue, looking down hill. Houses line both sides of the street, with one tree visible in the foreground and multiple trees lining bo... |
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| Description: | A view of Main Street. Houses line both sides of the street, as do trees, which partially obscure the houses. Telephone and/or electric lines run parallel ... |
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| Description: | A view of Washington Street. Trees line the street, as do telephone and/or electric lines. A carriage is parked on the right side of the street, in the mid... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Cattle grazing amidst the trees. |
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| Description: | Merriman Smith of UPI, the "dean of the White House correspondents," with President Lyndon Johnson, in the White House. Smith enjoyed a close relationship ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Marie McCaddin, New York branch telephone operator." Overhead view of woman sitting at a switchboard. |
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| Description: | Photographic holiday card of an African American family posed over "Merry Christmas" wrapping paper in the background. Holly and bells appear overhead. Eac... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with a old-fashioned telephone inside a frame made of a blue ribbon, decorated with hearts and flowers. A cherub is holding the receiv... |
| Date: | 06 1967 |
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| Description: | Composite panoramic view of the north side of the 500 block of State Street. Business include: The Towers (student apartments), Pantorium Dry Cleaners, The... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A view through a curtained doorway into the Middleton family dining room at 22 East Mifflin Street. A decorative bowl and china coffee set are on the table... |
| Date: | 06 1967 |
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| Description: | Composite panoramic view of the south side of the 700 block of State Street. Lake Street parking ramp and University of Wisconsin Extension building are vi... |
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