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Counting Pennies at the Bank

Date: 11 09 1955
Description: A banker pours 12,320 pennies into a change maker. The man had saved the coins for over four years.
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Silver Dollars

Date: 07 22 1954
Description: A table full of silver dollars where bank workers are preparing them to be sent to American Can Co., a Milwaukee-based company which plans on paying its em...
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Men Wanted Poster

Date: 1930
Description: A U.S. government poster encouraging citizens to invest their money in banks and especially to buy U.S. Reconstruction bonds.
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Buy Bonds!

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Description: Display that advertises the sale of U.S. Savings Bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan or the Bond-a-Month-Plan. Wisconsin State Governor Walter J. Kohler...
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Indian Protest

Date: 04 26 1971
Description: Led by James White, president of DRUMS, members of the organization and sympathizers staged a protest Monday at the First Wisconsin National Bank, 743 N. W...
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Milwaukee Bank Riot

Date: 1897
Description: Drawing depicting the Milwaukee Bank Riot of June 24, 1861. A large crowd is gathered outside the State Bank and Mitchell's Bank. A fire burns in the stree...
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Sauk City, Wis., Bank

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Description: Exterior view of a small bank. A horse-and-carriage is hitched outside the bank, and a house is behind it.
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Juneau Exhibit Dedicated

Date: 11 11 1971
Description: One woman and two men standing near a museum exhibit, with a statue of a Native American and part of a log structure in the foreground. Caption reads: "JUN...
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South Side State Bank Building

Date: 2000
Description: The former South Side State Bank building at 330 West Lakeside Street during renovation. The bank opened in 1920 and closed between 1933 and 1937. Some of ...

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