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Reitan Lerdahl Co. Office Interior

Date: 10 08 1934
Description: People working in the office of Reitan Lerdahl Co., Room 300-312, Pioneer Building, 105 Monona Avenue. (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.)
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World's Fair Beauties

Date: 08 10 1934
Description: Three "most beautiful employees" of the Chicago World's Fair on a publicity tour: Patricia Marquan, Kay Griffith and Dorothy Le Fold.
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Mautz Paint & Glass Co. Decorator

Date: 03 21 1934
Description: Beatrice Conley, staff director of the Mautz Home Decoration Service, sitting at a desk in her office at 939 East Washington Avenue.
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Manchesters Store Employees' Picnic

Date: 07 20 1932
Description: Group portrait of Manchesters employees in the yard of Harry Manchester's house, 531 Farwell Drive, Maple Bluff.
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Sol Levitan and State Treasury Employees

Date: 09 16 1930
Description: State Treasurer Sol Levitan sits surrounded by his employees in the State Treasurer's office as they celebrate his victory in the primary election.
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New World Life Insurance Company Christmas Party

Date: 12 21 1947
Description: Group portrait of New World Life Insurance Company employees at Christmas Party at Madison Club, 5 East Wilson Street.
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Dykman's Restaurant

Date: 10 12 1954
Description: Interior of the new Dykman's Restaurant, 107 West Main Street, showing the v-shaped luncheon counter with two waitresses, and featuring a Toastmaster three...
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Red Cross Trained Staff Assistants

Date: 11 09 1942
Description: Group portrait of State Civil Service employees enrolled in the staff assistance course for Red Cross and other defense related organizations, posed benea...
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La Follette Signing Unemployment Bill

Date: 01 28 1932
Description: Governor Philip F. La Follette signing unemployment insurance law. Left to right: Henry Ohl Jr., Mrs. Elizabeth Brandeis-Raushenbusch, Paul Raushenbusch, ...
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Kitchen Work

Date: 10 07 1931
Description: U.W. co-ed, Maybelle Goodyear of Sauk City, earns money to pay for school by preparing a meal in the kitchen of Dr. and Mrs. C.R. Mooney, at 306 Virginia T...
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New Rubber Bathing Costume

Date: 01 31 1934
Description: Miss Helen King modeling a new rubber bathing costume, holding a beach ball. This was the current fashion of the day and was made by U.S. Rubber Co.
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Circus Performers and Airplane

Date: 1930
Description: A giant and other circus performers, including Harry and Daisy Earles, posing in front of a Midwest Air Transport airplane while a crowd is watching from b...
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Packing Christmas Boxes for Soldiers

Date: 09 08 1944
Description: Elevated view of a large group of state employees are standing at long tables laden with items to be packed into Red Cross Christmas boxes for soldiers. Th...
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Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

Date: 10 14 1945
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Federation of State, County and Municipal employees outside the Federation Building, 448 W. Washington Avenue. Photograph tak...
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Rex Bar Interior

Date: 08 26 1944
Description: Interior of Rex Bar, 546 West Washington Avenue with three bartenders and patrons, including two men in uniform sitting at the bar.
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Chemist Testing Paint

Date: 06 24 1944
Description: Female chemist using C.M. Ambrose Company paint mixer for testing paint, with a man looking on at the Mautz Paint and Varnish Company, 939 East Washington ...
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Hard Times Party

Date: 06 13 1936
Description: Group portrait of Kroger employees in costume at a Hard Times Party, Schenk's Hall, 2028 Atwood Avenue. There is a man with an accordion in the background.
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Show Girls at Heidelberg Hofbrau

Date: 03 10 1935
Description: Seven show girls, wearing hats, from the Orpheum's "Spices of 1935" show, sitting at a table at Hommel's Heidelberg Hofbrau Restaurant, 20 West Mifflin Str...
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Eye Exam

Date: 11 06 1933
Description: Dr. John E. Hughes, optometrist, tests a patient's vision in his office at 112 E. Main Street, using an eyeglass lens machine.
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Janette Serrec with Bicycle

Date: 05 23 1933
Description: Janette Serrec, lecturer and writer on the "Fine Art of Successful Living," standing beside a Hawthorne bicycle from Ward's. She is wearing jodhpurs and bo...

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