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Making Valentines

Date: 01 30 1958
Description: Schoolgirls showing one another the valentines they are making in class to celebrate the holiday.
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Classroom Valentines

Date: 01 30 1958
Description: A teacher answers a student's question as the other students cut hearts from construction paper to make valentine cards.
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High School Basketball Game

Date: 
Description: Action shot of a basketball game between Madison East High School and the Lincoln Comets.
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Hardware Sales

Date: 12 19 1962
Description: Hilgendorf's Hardware store clerk showing a saw to a customer.
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Radishes

Date: 
Description: A woman pours water from a watering can onto several varieties of radishes she has displayed for sale.
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Baiting the Hook

Date: 07 27 1941
Description: An elderly man looking blissful, sitting in a boat getting ready to cast his line.
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Fighting the Fire

Date: 09 19 1959
Description: View towards a firefighter standing with his back to the camera as he is aiming a fire hose towards the flames.
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Self-Service Supermarket

Date: 1953
Description: A cashier checking out a customer's purchases while another customer is filling her grocery cart with items at the D. Kurman company market.
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Frosty House

Date: 12 18 1963
Description: A craft class member of Milwaukee public school system's recreation department frosting a gingerbread cookie house at the Grant Street social center.
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Cut Fence

Date: 09 10 1963
Description: A boy repairing the fence at the Golden Guernsey Dairy cooperative McKerrow Farms.
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Marine Captain Joseph McCarthy

Date: 1944
Description: Joseph R. McCarthy in his Marine Corps uniform at the time of his first campaign for the United States Senate. He is holding a piece of his campaign litera...
Map or Atlas

Ethnic Stocks Map

Date: 1940
Description: Map of the people of Wisconsin according to ethnic stocks.
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Barn Fire

Date: 05 12
Description: Spectators watch at night as intense flames burn a barn down to its stone foundation.
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Milwaukee Journal Photographer

Date: 1950
Description: Milwaukee Journal photographer with display of cameras and flash units. He is dramatically demonstrating the use of flash powder.
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Walking in the Rain

Date: 1957
Description: A woman in business attire walking with an open umbrella on a rainy day in downtown Milwaukee. To her left is the Civil War monument, "The Victorious Charg...
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Rose Bowl Bound

Date: 12 18 1952
Description: University of Wisconsin football fans get their Badger memorabilia on the way to the Rose Bowl played January 1st, 1953.
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Family at Home

Date: 1955
Description: A mother posing with her seven children in the living room of their home.
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Working at the Parker Pen Factory

Date: 10 16 1952
Description: A worker is using a machine to cut metal strips for fountain pen nibs at the Parker Pen factory.
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Railroad Speed Recorder

Date: 03 05 1939
Description: George Jung, a Milwaukee Road speed recorder, comparing speed tapes from locomotives with master tapes covering the same division. The scale of the tapes i...
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Milwaukee Railroad Yards

Date: 1940
Description: Elevated view of the Milwaukee rail yards.

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