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Public Servants Week Sign

Date: 06 10 1949
Description: Public Servants Week sign "The City Water Dept. invites you to open house" on the lawn in front of main water pumping station, 311 North Hancock at East Go...
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Emerson School Card Party

Date: 10 27 1931
Description: Emerson school card party, training in social poise, Home Economics Department, Madison Public Schools.
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Unemployed Men in Line for Jobs

Date: 11 20 1933
Description: Unemployed men stand in line for CWA (Civil Works Administration) jobs, inside the Public Employment Office, 111 W. Main Street.
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Third Grade Classroom

Date: 06 05 1931
Description: "Japanese project being developed in a 3rd grade Madison Public Schools." Overall view of students and teacher in a Dudgeon School classroom.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices

Date: 10 13 1930
Description: Robed Wisconsin Supreme Court justices sitting in their courtroom in the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Men Registering for CWA Employment

Date: 11 20 1933
Description: Doris Brobst, clerk for the Public Employment Office, sitting at her desk, 111 W. Main Street, registering a group of men for CWA (Civil Work Administratio...
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Home Economics Class Banquet

Date: 10 27 1931
Description: Elevated view of a Home Economics class of girls in which social attributes are being developed, Madison Public Schools, Emerson School. The girls are sitt...
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 02 01 1929
Description: Brickwork and window.
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Dane County Fair

Date: 08 23 1930
Description: People in grandstand are overlooking the track from the right. There is a man standing in the center of the track making announcement over a public address...
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Governor's Residence

Date: 12 09 1930
Description: Governor's residence, 130(?) East Gilman Street.
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Governor Philip F. La Follette

Date: 11 24 1931
Description: Governor Philip F. La Follette delivers a special message on welfare relief to a special session of the legislature in the assembly chamber of the Wisconsi...
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 01 15 1929
Description: Finished face brickwork at opening F-31 looking northeast.
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Patrolman Peterson

Date: 06 08 1930
Description: Patrolman Peterson in uniform, sitting at a telephone table.
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Lowell School

Date: 11 07 1929
Description: Front entrance of Lowell School, 401 Maple Avenue.
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Madison Free Library Entrance

Date: 11 20 1945
Description: View from street towards a man approaching the entrance to the Madison Free Library, 206 North Carroll Street. The library was built with Carnegie money an...
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Madison Free Library

Date: 11 20 1945
Description: View across street towards the entrance to the Madison Free Library, 206 North Carroll Street. The library was built with Carnegie money and opened in 1906...
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James McGilligan at Police Station

Date: 05 21 1931
Description: James McGilligan, accused of impersonating a physician, sitting at the police station.
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 12 03 1928
Description: Interior view of empty Post Office work room looking toward Wilson Street.
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Mary O. Kryzack

Date: 02 02 1933
Description: Portrait of Mary O. Kryzsak, Wisconsin's only assembly woman, speaking from her desk in the Assembly.
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Governor's Residence, Drawing Room

Date: 03 21 1932
Description: Drawing room at Governor's Residence showing large oval mirror over the left fireplace, 130 East Gilman Street.

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