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| Date: | 11 04 1940 |
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| Description: | A busy scene at the Professional Pharmacy. James Robinson, proprietor, stands in front of the prescriptions counter. |
| Date: | 10 12 1931 |
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| Description: | Jesse Smith is on the job as desk sergeant at the Madison Police Department. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A female telephone operator posing sitting at the switchboard. |
| Date: | 10 31 1946 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Ray-O-Vac's large, open fourth floor office with desks and chairs. Behind the desk in the foreground is a large Rolodex in a box on wheels... |
| Date: | 07 27 1949 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Winfield Martin house, 2906 Lakeland Avenue (earlier address: 611 Elmside Boulevard), showing the stairway, with a telephone on a cabinet n... |
| Date: | 06 18 1935 |
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| Description: | Springfield Works storekeeper H.H. Stephenson sits at a desk in his factory office. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men, one talking on the telephone with his feet on the desk and another reading paperwork, work at a disorganized desk. Possibly a photograph from an i... |
| Date: | 11 10 1924 |
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| Description: | Customer service counter at Gibson City Implement Company, an International Harvester agricultural equipment dealership. A display board of parts is leanin... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a suit and hat is checking in and signing a piece of paper at a hotel registry desk. A suitcase is sitting at his feet and a hotel employee i... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey, chair of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, discussing foreign policy issues with his st... |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin was well represented on a congressional leadership trip to the Persian Gulf in 1991. Here Congressman David Obey (in plaid shirt) leans over the ... |
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| Description: | Color postcard of the interior of the Law Office at Stonefield. A man is seated at the desk. |
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| Description: | Indoor group portrait of an office space. with two women posing sitting at a telephone switchboard, and another woman posing standing. The woman standing i... |
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| Description: | Indoor portrait of an office space with two women posing sitting at a telephone switchboard. Above the switchboard is a clock. There is a window on the lef... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | "This picture is of the first telephone exchange that I established in Laona. The girl standing is my youngest daughter. This exchange is still operated in... |
| Date: | 11 1907 |
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| Description: | Three men are sitting in an office around a large desk with stacks of books, papers and a telephone. They men are wearing suits, ties and watch fobs, and ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Governor Emmanuel Philipp sits at his desk in a group portrait with his senators. Three other men sit in chairs behind the desk, and eleven men stand in a ... |
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| Description: | Brooks McCormick sitting behind a desk resting his cheek on his right hand. His elbow is propped on top of the desk blotter. Another person's hands can be ... |
| Date: | 09 08 2014 |
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| Description: | The last week of business at the College Barber Shop. Interior details include prices for haircuts, shaves, and trims, and framed photographs and other ite... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman are standing and facing each other, but looking down at their smart phones. Behind them, lines of people are wait to enter the Milwaukee ... |
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