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Spiegel Catalog Order Office

Date: 10 27 1949
Description: Interior of Spiegel Catalog Order Office, 427 State Street, with a crowd of shoppers.
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Library Catalog

Date: 1970
Description: View of Wisconsin Historical Society librarians filing catalog cards. This image is undated, but it was probably taken during the 1970s.
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Vase of Dahlias

Date: 10 13 1927
Description: Vase of Dahlias for the Olds Seed Company catalog.
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Dahlia Flower Heads

Date: 10 12 1927
Description: Arrangement of dahlia flower heads for Olds Seed Company catalog.
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Dahlias in Three Vases

Date: 10 12 1927
Description: Dahlias in three vases for the Olds Seed Company catalog.
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Spiegel Catalog Order Office

Date: 10 27 1949
Description: Crowd of shoppers in front of Spiegel's Catalog Order Office, 427 State Street. Also shown are Bluteau's Wholesale Market, 421 State St. & Mack-Olson Food...
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Japanese Lantern Plant

Date: 10 13 1927
Description: Dried arrangement of Japanese lantern plant in a vase for the Olds Seed Company catalog.
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Metal Replacement Parts

Date: 11 18 1937
Description: Display of metal replacement parts for farm light plants, taken for M.J. Fitzgerald Co. 2034 Jenifer Street. Photograph to be used in a catalog.
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Madison Free Library

Date: 10 20 1947
Description: Helen Jansky, librarian, in charge of circulation, helping Elmer Brussow at the card catalog in the Madison Free Library, 206 North Carroll Street.
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We Saw You . . . at the Library

Date: 09 22 1957
Description: A young woman is peering into a drawer of the card catalog of the Madison Public Library.
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Decoupage Art

Date: 03 02 1954
Description: A large decoupage still life of a flower arrangement made from seed catalog illustrations is displayed on an easel. The artwork was created by Fern Fowler.
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Madison Public Library

Date: 03 11 1961
Description: Library patrons crowded together at the card catalog. The photograph is one of a series showing the crowded conditions at the Madison Public Library at 206...
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Creative Playthings

Date: 11 19 1965
Description: In a photograph advertising Creative Playthings, a young boy is sitting on a rocking horse, with climbing apparatus in the background. A catalog shop for C...
Book or Pamphlet

Olds' Seeds Cover Design

Date: 1945
Description: A cover design of the Olds' Seeds catalog from the L.L. Olds Seed Co. The caption reads: "Victory Gardener by ???," and features a photograph of a woman we...
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Madison Free Library

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: A student is looking through the card catalog (or what the newspaper calls "the library's key, a simple cross-filer system") at the Madison Free Library at...
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Signe and Peder Sletteland

Date: 12 26 1945
Description: Signe and Peder Sletteland, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry A. Sletteland, 2150 Chadbourne Avenue, looking at a catalog. She is a student at Skidmor...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Centennial Art Exhibit

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: Studying an art catalog at the University of Wisconsin Centennial Art Exhibit at the Memorial Union, are Mrs. Alan Jones, Fort Atkinson, and Thomas R. Heft...
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Madison Gladiolus Society Annual Show

Date: 08 07 1949
Description: Theodore Woods and Mrs. T.R. (Madeline) Hefty admiring a vase of "Madeline Hefty" gladioli at the Madison gladiolus society's eighth annual show. Mr. Woods...
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High School Boys Conducting Liberty Loan Drive

Date: 04 1918
Description: Several young men stand around a kiosk decorated with American flags. One is dressed as Uncle Sam. Behind, them, young men and women are standing. A War Sa...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of Historical Society Librarian

Date: 1892
Description: Emma Hawley, a Historical Society librarian, at her desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. After the Society purchased its first type...

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