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Roofers and Visiting Ladies on the Roof

Date: 1922
Description: View along roof of four men in hats and work clothes, and two women in summer dresses posing on the side of the roof. One of the men is holding a hammer. I...
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Blockprinting

Date: 1937
Description: A woman is printing material stretched over a padded table. Another woman is working at a table in the background.
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Mrs. Glenn M. Wise, Wisconsin Secretary of State

Date: 08 1955
Description: Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, at her desk in the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Mrs. Lathrop at Old La Pointe Post Office

Date: 1910
Description: Mrs. Elizabeth Lathrop sitting on steps of La Point Post Office with an unidentified woman.
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University of Wisconsin Student Wives Who Work

Date: 02 07 1956
Description: Barbara Ruffalo works as a receptionist at Fitzpatrick Lumber Company, while her husband, Ronald, is a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin in mechanic...
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Brillion News Print Shop

Date: 1901
Description: Interior view of the Brillion News Print Shop, where a printer and his assistants, two women, are posing around a press and work tables.
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Comf'y Marcel Beauty Shoppe

Date: 10 27 1930
Description: Beauty operators work on customers in booths while another woman waits in the Comf'y Marcel Beauty Shoppe, 2039 Winnebago Street. Moved to 1917 Winnebago S...
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Stamping Hams

Date: 1945
Description: Women are stamping hams with the USDA grade stamp and the Oscar Mayer label as the hams move by on an assembly line.
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Seaplane

Date: 1950
Description: A young man wearing jeans and a t-shirt is handling the luggage as two well-dressed women exit a small seaplane. The pilot is watching from inside the plan...
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First Gillette Tire

Date: 05 23 1917
Description: A group of men, women and children are standing and watching as a Gillette employee works on the first tire produced by the Gillette Rubber Company. From l...
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Simpson's Clothing Model

Date: 07 07 1942
Description: Simpson's, 23-25 North Pinckney Street. Woman modeling a suit, with hat, gloves and purse.
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Four Fashion Models

Date: 03 16 1939
Description: Four Madison Business College women modeling floor-length dresses for Kessenichs store.
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University of Wisconsin-Extension Moves

Date: 03 04 1948
Description: University of Wisconsin-Extension mailing department, with Mrs. May B. Shire and Craig Gunter hard at work mailing loan packages of information throughout ...
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Vera Milton Portraits

Date: 12 22 1931
Description: Vera Milton, waiter, Wisconsin General Hospital.
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Office Workers

Date: 12 16 1943
Description: Office workers of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company.
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Disease Immunization, 5th and Hadley

Date: 02 15 1935
Description: A man and a woman administer immunization shots to a line of children.
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Woman Working in Laboratory

Date: 01 10 1948
Description: A woman in a laboratory coat working in a laboratory. (Possibily Jane Fred?).
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Plucking Turkeys

Date: 11 1947
Description: Two girls, holding turkey feathers, are watching the production line at Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, where two women workers are plucking turkeys.
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Woman Rubber Worker

Date: 01 12 1949
Description: Isabel Olson, an employee of the United Rubber Company in Eau Claire, examining fabric for a pocket in a heavy service tire. Although most women who joine...
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University of Wisconsin Student Wives Who Work

Date: 02 07 1956
Description: Dagmar Kammerer works as a nurse's aide at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center. Her husband, Dagmar Kammerer, is a senior political science major at the Univer...

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