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| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Sawmill, for cutting barrel heads and staves out of oak logs, behind the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 08 31 1955 |
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| Description: | Ethel Anderson at the linotype machine in the composing room of Madison Newspapers Incorporated. |
| Date: | 08 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Mabel Huffman, a leader in labor activities in Madison, folds and binds issues of the "Union Labor News." |
| Date: | 06 11 1958 |
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| Description: | The Madison Vocational and Adult School is presented with a gas welding machine from Harnischfeger Corp. of Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess using a circling machine to create a barrel head at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 03 13 1952 |
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| Description: | A masked copy of a lathe manufactured by the Gisholt Machine Company. |
| Date: | 04 24 1951 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man sits at a jig saw making a bird house while receiving instruction in woodworking as a participant in the Madison Vocational School home... |
| Date: | 01 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison Vocational and Adult Education School provides a new industrial arts program to students at Edgewood High School because there are is no program fo... |
| Date: | 07 09 1958 |
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| Description: | Pat, 8, and Vicki Rohan, 14, examine some of the equipment in the press room of Madison Newspapers, Inc. The photograph was taken for part of an article su... |
| Date: | 06 27 1958 |
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| Description: | John (Jack) Barkenhagen (right) shown with his co-workers at Madison Newspapers, Inc. for his retirement after 36 years as a linotype operator. He is a nat... |
| Date: | 06 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Schoep's Ice Cream Factory, 514 Division St. |
| Date: | 02 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Indoor portrait of Stanley Prideaux, president of the Dane County CIO Council and president of Local 1404 United Steel Workers at Gisholt, the second large... |
| Date: | 09 15 1951 |
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| Description: | A man operates a natural gas fired kiln used to case metal rods from molten metal (?). Molds are visible at the base of the kiln. |
| Date: | 10 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Edwin Koch demonstrates the paper cup making machine he invented as a retirement project. |
| Date: | 09 16 1950 |
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| Description: | George H. Johnson (left), Gisholt Machine Company president, and Stanley Prideaux (center), president of the United Steelworkers of America, congratulate F... |
| Date: | 05 27 1953 |
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| Description: | Victor Kelley adjusts his home-made lawnmower sharpener to sharpen a reel-type lawn mower for a neighbor. |
| Date: | 03 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Joy Kelley, home economics teaching assistant in clothing & textiles, does research toward her master's degree. |
| Date: | 04 26 1957 |
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| Description: | C. Glenn Goodsell uses machinery in his basement shop where he repairs toys during his retirement. |
| Date: | 03 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Eldon Vondra at his job as as engraver at the Varigraph Company, makers of mechanical lettering instruments. Five of the 10 Varigraph employees... |
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