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Employee Working on a Computer

Date: 08 28 1984
Description: Mary Beaudry, a temporary employee at International Business Machines, works on word-processing and computer equipment.
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Cheese Wrapping

Date: 1950
Description: Women wearing white smocks or aprons wrap slabs of cheese for distribution.
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Menominee Women's Crew

Date: 1943
Description: Menominee women working to protect their white pines from blister rust.
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Woman Piling Tan Bark

Date: 1918
Description: A group of women employees of the N.R. Allen Tannery posing with a pile of tan bark.
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Women Machining Cream Separator Parts at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1918
Description: Female factory workers machining parts for cream separators and International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. An original caption identifies them as "Milwauke...
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Library Circulation Desk

Date: 1948
Description: Wisconsin Historical Society Library Circulation Desk and staff.
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Studio of Panorama Artist

Date: 1900
Description: Friedrich Wilhelm Heine at work in his studio. An unidentified woman paints at an easel. Many paintings and sketches surround them. Heine was the Superviso...
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Wisconsin State Journal Editorial Room

Date: 03 02 1954
Description: View of men and women working at desks in the editorial room of the Wisconsin State Journal newspaper.
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Oscar Mayer Co. Cafeteria

Date: 10 15 1943
Description: Oscar Mayer Company cafeteria showing men and women workers in line for food, and sitting at tables.
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Floralo Incense Company

Date: 09 18 1929
Description: Three women working at Floralo Incense Company, located at 1212 Regent Street. The are tamping and boxing incense.
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Taking a Break

Date: 1937
Description: Men and one woman gathered around machinery in a cutover area of northern Wisconsin preparing to undertake an unknown task.
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Packing Boxes with Bags of Cranberries

Date: 11 21 1997
Description: Two young men are packing boxes with bags of Ocean Spray cranberries. In the background women are bagging the cranberries.
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Manchester's, Inc., Window Display

Date: 08 12 1954
Description: Manchester's, Inc., display in Window B featuring clothing for "Women Who Work" with two mannequins and an office desk.
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Insurance Women of Madison

Date: 11 09 1960
Description: Four founding members of Insurance Women of Madison pose at General Casualty Insurance Company. They are, left to right: Leota Schoenoff, Helen Hendrickson...
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Beauty Queen Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1947
Description: A young woman dressed in a bathing suit and wading boots poses for a promotional photograph for the Wisconsin cranberry industry at Thunder Lake Marsh. Tw...
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Consolidated Paper Company War Work

Date: 03 1944
Description: Two employees of the Consolidated Paper Company check the quality of the laminate product emerging from the dry end of the treater. The laminate was manuf...
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Auto License Bureau

Date: 05 17 1939
Description: Wisconsin Auto License Bureau, 16-20 E. Doty Street, Card Typing Department, with women at typewriters and male supervisor.
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Attorneys Dorothy Baldwin and Emily Dodge

Date: 11 01 1945
Description: Madison attorneys Dorothy Baldwin and Emily Dodge, who organized what is believed to be the only all-woman law firm in Wisconsin.
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Pea Viner

Date: 1924
Description: A group of farmers, including women and children, pose in front of a pea processing plant.
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Woman Examining Tax Rolls

Date: 02 01 1952
Description: A woman sits on a table in an office, possibly examining tax rolls.

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