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Packaging Onions

Date: 1965
Description: Farmers package onions for shipping. Two women and a man pack and sew closed mesh bags of onions. Another man hoists full bags onto a conveyor belt, while ...
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Packing Cherries

Date: 07 23 1924
Description: A group of men and women pack cherries on a bench made of planks and sawhorses. Fruit crates are stacked on the ground and in the back of a nearby truck. O...
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Grace Episcopal's Old Rectory Shop Closes

Date: 03 25 1959
Description: Three women are shown pricing re-sale clothing for a rummage sale at 110 West Washington Avenue. At work are, left to right: Imogene Bowers, Jane Brandt, a...
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Cooking on the New Stove

Date: 1905
Description: A woman is stirring a pot on what looks like a new stove. It is a gleaming Acme, from Newark Stove Works. There is a warming closet in the top half. The ca...
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Catering for the Media

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Men and women getting food, drinks, and snacks from two small catering tables. A sign with the Republican elephant is next to the table, which reads: "Cate...
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A Sheer Winner

Date: 03 22 1989
Description: A woman posing in a coat with matching pants and holding a domino mask over her face. Behind her is another woman posing, also with a domino mask. Caption ...
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Annual League of Women Voters Fund Drive

Date: 09 22 1965
Description: William B. Manchester, public relations director for Harry S. Manchester, Inc., is shown "checking the facts" in a brochure before contributing to the annu...
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Sculpting a Figure

Date: 1950
Description: A female artist sculpting a female figure from clay.
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Grain Binder

Date: 1910
Description: A woman holding the reins of a saddled horse is standing next to a Milwaukee No. 10 grain harvester and binder hitched to three horses. A man is sitting on...
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Cabins at Bungalow Village — Highway 12

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Description: Three women are sitting on chairs in front of the office and kitchen building at Bungalow Village.
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Trying Out New Kodak Film

Date: 09 19 1957
Description: Portrait of a woman at her desk probably at the Wisconsin State Journal. Ed Stein was testing new Kodak Plus-X ASA320 film, when taking her picture.
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Beauty College

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Description: A hairdresser is standing behind a customer, who reacts to her new hairdo.
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Wisconsin State Journal Former Employee

Date: 02 25 1948
Description: Mrs. Joseph (Betty Pruett) Farrington, former police reporter, recalls work days with Russell B. Pyre, current reporter. She was a police reporter from 191...
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CUNA Office

Date: 02 04 1947
Description: Close-up of a woman sitting in front of a Remington Accounting Machine. In the background are other women and a man in the office using other office machin...
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Studio Portrait of European American Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two unidentified European American women posing standing. The woman are wearing light-colored...
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Studio Portrait of European American Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of two unidentified women posing standing together. They are both wearing dark-colored dresses. The woman on the left has her r...
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Studio Portrait of Two European American Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of two young unidentified women posing sitting in front of a white backdrop. The woman on the left is sitting in the chair, and...
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Horseradish Processing Line

Date: 10 12 1981
Description: Elevated view of women sitting along both sides of a trough, with containers of roots next to them. Caption reads: "The horseradish crop moved along a proc...
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Group Portrait of the Wisconsin Rural Mail Carriers

Date: 1930
Description: Large group portrait of the Wisconsin Rural Mail Carriers Association showing men, women, and a few children on the front steps of, and in front of, a bric...
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Leonore at Work

Date: 1915
Description: Leonore Middleton, right, and an unidentified woman sitting on opposite sides of a wooden desk. Leonore is holding a slide rule, and the other woman is loo...

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