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Filter: Year of 1950-1959
| Date: | 09 22 1957 |
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| Description: | A young woman is peering into a drawer of the card catalog of the Madison Public Library. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman at International Harvester's Tractor Works is looking through a filing cabinet or a card catalog. Other people are working in the background. |
| Date: | 03 02 1954 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 01 28 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a catalogue of International Harvester dealer signs. Features an illustration of a International Harvester "prototype" dealership building ... |
| Community: | Wauwatosa |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | GENERAL MERCHANDISE COMPANY DISTRIBUTION CENTER |
| Reference Number: | 233281 |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for International Harvester "femineered" refrigerators. Features a woman leaning in on a refrigerator and an inset of a wo... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A view of the Library Reading Room in 1955, after the modernization of the 1950s was complete. Most prominent is the division of the room into functional ... |
| Date: | 01 25 1958 |
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| Description: | Three attendees at the symposium conducted by four national news commentators at the opening of the National Mass Communications History Center, held in th... |
| Community: | Mount Pleasant |
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| County: | Racine |
| Historic Name: | John Leitheiser House |
| Reference Number: | 11396 |
| Community: | Mount Pleasant |
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| County: | Racine |
| Historic Name: | Willard H. Keland House |
| Reference Number: | 51498 |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Strapless bra worn by Clara Kuester of Clintonville, Wisconsin and made by Jantzen, Inc. in the early 1950s. (Museum object #2000.74.28) |
| Community: | Omro |
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| County: | Winnebago |
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| Reference Number: | 225146 |
| Journalist, Clubwoman, Philanthropist, |
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| Brief biography of Ruth Miriam Kohler [De Young] (1906-1953) |
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