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Midwest Iron Fireman Company

Date: 12 13 1950
Description: A group of men and women stand in front of the Midwest Iron Fireman Company at 440 West Gorham Street.
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World Trade is a Two-Way Seaway

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Description: A woman dressed in a costume that would appear to represent businesses and products of Wisconsin. Her very tall hat has a world globe on the top and the wo...
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Information Filing and Storage

Date: 04 17 1964
Description: A clerk checks real estate property information in a vast filing system housed in a vault.
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Wisconsin Council of Churches Annual Business Meeting

Date: 01 19 1960
Description: Eva Brewster (left), Madison United Church Women president; Ellis Dana, council executive vice-president; and Christina Dana discuss council changes.
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People by House with False Storefront

Date: 1872
Description: People standing in front of a house with a false storefront. A man is standing on the porch by a hand-pump. There is a woodpile in the yard behind a woman ...
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Charles Pfeifer, Deutsche Apotheke (German Apothecary)

Date: 1888
Description: Charles Pfeifer stands on the entrance steps to the drugstore with his wife Emma Pfeifer, who holds a baby. Other children and adults pose with them.
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Manchester's Advertising Department Views Printing Press

Date: 07 13 1957
Description: Five women wearing folded newspaper hats while viewing a large printing press on a tour at Madison Newspapers Inc. The five women from the advertising depa...
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The Mart

Date: 02 18 1978
Description: "The Mart. Mrs. Karl Hoff tends the drugstore in its 'Going Out of Business Sale.'"
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Wisconsin Chapter of American Business Women's Assn. Holds "Boss Night" Dinner

Date: 04 28 1965
Description: The Wisconsin Chapter of the American Business Women's Assn. (ABWA) holds its annual "Boss Night" dinner at the Top Hat Supper Club in Middleton. Shown (se...
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Industry Building at the Fair

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Description: Interior view of the crowds in the Wisconsin Industry Building and the building's unusual art deco decoration. Few photographs depict African Americans at ...
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Newest City Map Shown by Chamber

Date: 06 20 1958
Description: Two Madison Chamber of Commerce employees are shown holding the newest map of the city printed by the chamber. The maps sold for ten cents. The two women ...
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Planning for Madison Chamber of Commerce Jaycette Tea

Date: 09 01 1953
Description: Group portrait of three women in charge of planning the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce membership auxiliary tea on October 13, 1953. They are, from lef...
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Watertown Rexall Drug

Date: 1909
Description: Colorful advertising displays line the counters of this turn-of-the- century drugstore, with rows of glass pharmaceutical bottles filling the shelves behin...
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Madison Chamber of Commerce Publishes New Maps

Date: 04 21 1964
Description: Two women employees of the Madison Chamber of Commerce office inspecting a newly published map of Madison. They are Beverly Robinson (left) administrative ...
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Wisconsin Steel Booth at Blind Veterans Show

Date: 1947
Description: A blind(?) man operates a piece of machinery behind a table in a display booth at the "blind veterans show." The booth is labeled "International Harvester'...
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Mrs, Leslie Jungbluth, Madison Investor and Homemaker

Date: 09 05 1961
Description: Mrs. Leslie (Caroline C.) Jungbluth studies The State Journal market page. Now a homemaker, she first got interested in stocks when she worked for the tele...
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"Soft" Water Meeting

Date: 01 23 1968
Description: A man sitting in an inner tube and wearing swim trunks and a boater hat is using a cane to point to a document, which he is showing to a woman standing in ...
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Job Interview Tips

Date: 04 10 1957
Description: Portrait of Jacqueline Miller, seated at a desk typing a job resume.
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Your Occo Service Man

Date: 1944
Description: A man in an overcoat is leaning against a parked car, with a man in overalls standing next to him. A sign in the car window reads: "Your stock needs Occo M...
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Pabst Malt Extract

Date: 1903
Description: Eye catching Eagle Drugstore window display for Pabst Malt Extract, "The Best Tonic". An advertisement for this product stated that it was "the greatest to...

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