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| Date: | 04 24 1951 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Jerry Church, a Madison West High School student who is learning welding in the new wing of the Madison Vocational School, located on Carroll S... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison Bacteriology Building, in process of construction on campus. There are cars in a parking lot in the foreground. |
| Date: | 03 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Advertisement mock-up for TRIMAR Trichloroethylene, distributed by Ohio Chemical and Surgical Equipment Company of Madison. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Madison-Kipp Corporation, 2824 Atwood Avenue entrance. The building was built in 1918 by the US government to manufacture guns for World War I. It was own... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess finishing barrel heads at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Old City Hall being razed with a crane and wrecking ball. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Sawmill, for cutting barrel heads and staves out of oak logs, behind the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Arboretum station was built when the site was a proposed site for a model city called Lake Forest, a scheme which fail... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Chadbourne Hall under construction on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The new building is at the corner of Park Street and Unive... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Chadbourne Hall under construction on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus at the corner of Park Street and University Avenue. Music H... |
| Date: | 05 21 1957 |
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| Description: | George H. Beyler, engraving photographer, inspecting a negative on a viewer for the new ultra-modern photoengraving plant at Madison Newspapers. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Large stacks of oak barrel heads and staves curing outdoors at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Barrel making tools and cattails, use for cauking barrels, at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of the Oscar Mayer plant. |
| Date: | 01 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Annaliese Steppart, new member of the faculty at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School, demonstrates enameling to two of her students in a jew... |
| 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: | 05 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Rolland H. Fellers, superintendent of the engraving department, checks over the new Robertson half-tone color camera at Madison Newspapers new photoengravi... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Frank Hess Sr., owner of Hess Cooperage, trimming cattails, used to cauk oak barrels. |
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