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East High School Automotive Mechanics Class

Date: 12 06 1944
Description: Automotive Mechanics class at East High School. Pictured are Irving Smith with a power driven valve seat grinder, and Bob Koltes checking his work.
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Auto Body Repair

Date: 10 17 1945
Description: An employee of the Royal Body Company, 9-13 North Brooks Street, operating an air hammer to straighten a dented fender of a automobile.
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Stoddard Monroe Street Apartments

Date: 08 16 1946
Description: Two new apartment buildings recently completed by builder Neal H. Stoddard, in the 2900 block of Monroe Street. The laying of sod and other landscaping was...
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Madison Snowstorm

Date: 01 30 1947
Description: Winter scene of Robert Ernst, 207 West Washington Avenue, an airport weather communications employee, trying to shovel his car out of a snow drift.
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Madison Snowstorm

Date: 01 30 1947
Description: Winter scene with cars in a parking lot at West Washington Avenue and Fairchild Street the morning after a snowstorm, Madison, Wisconsin.
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Gustav Bohstedt

Date: 03 07 1947
Description: Prof. Gustav Bohstedt, University of Wisconsin Animal Husbandry professor, seated in his automobile. He was chosen as a courteous driver in the AAA campai...
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Hudson Auto Co. "Motor School"

Date: 02 19 1947
Description: Hudson Auto Co., 1134 E. Washington Avenue, holding a "motor school" to teach the use of Sun diagnostic equipment. Group of men in background, and front e...
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Kaysers Stadium Garage

Date: 04 12 1947
Description: View across street of Kaysers, Inc. Stadium Garage and Pure Oil Station, 1501 Monroe Street, at the corner of Regent Street.
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Aerial View of a Capitol Square Intersection

Date: 05 05 1947
Description: Aerial view of the intersection of Pinckney, Main, and King Streets on the Madison Capitol Square. Kresge's, 27 East Main Street, can be seen at the upper ...
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Fred L. Statz Buillding

Date: 10 15 1947
Description: Exterior view of the Fred L. Statz building, 123 West Main Street, located at the corner of West Main Street and Fairchild Street.
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Sennett and Winslow Capture

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: Neighbors of the Pomputis family and newspaper reporters wait on a highway near the farm where the confessed murderers were hiding.
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Garrit J. Corscot

Date: 01 07 1948
Description: Garrit J. Corscot at his desk near a window, looking at papers in his office, at the Dane County Title Company, 109 South Fairchild Street.
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Street Parade for First Alice in Dairyland

Date: 06 07 1948
Description: The crowd in the street at a parade honoring Margaret McGuire who was selected Wisconsin's first Alice in Dairyland.
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Uncollected Rubbish on Capitol Square

Date: 06 15 1948
Description: Uncollected garbage in bushel baskets on Capitol Square during a walkout strike by Local 236 Municipal Garage Department Union.
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Waunakee Cannery

Date: 07 01 1948
Description: View from road of the Waunakee Canning Company building with cars in a parking lot. Men are working near the loading dock.
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Sauk County's Wisconsin Centennial Parade

Date: 08 14 1948
Description: Sauk County's Centennial Queen float in Sauk County's Wisconsin Centennial Parade.
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Suburban Police Officers

Date: 10 13 1948
Description: Town of Madison constable John Rieder, and "Bonnie," his 2-year-old Pomeranian dog, leaning out of squad car during patrol of the town.
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Naval Armory Under Construction

Date: 11 17 1948
Description: Construction scene of the new Naval Armory in the 1000 block of East Washington Avenue.
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Madison Fire Station Number 8

Date: 11 17 1948
Description: The nearly completed Madison fire station number 8, 409 North Street. There is a man on the roof holding a rope.
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Olin Park Trailer Camp

Date: 01 14 1949
Description: House trailers in the Olin Park trailer camp near Murphy's Creek (now Wingra Creek) entrance to Lake Monona, the site where two 2-year-old residents of the...

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