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Office Work

Date: 1950
Description: Women office workers file and take phone calls in a busy shared work space.
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Television for Patients

Date: 1950
Description: Hospital or nursing home patients are able to view television in their rooms.
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Woman on Motor Scooter

Date: 1958
Description: A motor scooter in an advertisement with female model sitting on a Cushman Road King motor scooter.
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Unitarian Church's Work Day

Date: 1950
Description: People gather around a table of food for the First Unitarian Society's "Work Day". The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and some of the construc...
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Assembly Work

Date: 1950
Description: A woman looks over parts used as bases for miniature Christmas trees.
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Picking Apples

Date: 1950
Description: An apple-picker stands among the branches of a tree, on a ladder with a pouch slung over his shoulder and belted around his waist.
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Tinsel Trees

Date: 1950
Description: A woman fashions a miniature hand-made metallic tree, while tables full of others await packing and shipment for the Christmas holidays.
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Unitarian Meeting House Work Day

Date: 09 29 1950
Description: A group of skilled workmen in front of the First Unitarian Society meeting house on one of the work days they donated to the project. The building was desi...
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Unitarian Meeting House Construction

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Description: Workers erecting scaffolding outside the First Unitarian Society Meeting House during construction. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and the...
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Loading Stones into a Truck

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Description: Members of the First Unitarian Society loading stones at a quarry to be used in the construction of the Meeting House. The building was designed by Frank L...
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Unitarian Meeting House Congregation Sorting Stones

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Description: Members of the Madison First Unitarian Society congregation sorting stones to be used in the construction of the Meeting House. The building was designed b...
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Menominee Ceremony

Date: 1940
Description: Slightly elevated view of a Menominee Ceremony, possibly the beginning of a dance.
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High School, Richland Center, Wisconsin

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view towards a high school, with students walking on the sidewalks and several parked automobiles.
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Wisconsin State College

Date: 1957
Description: Wisconsin State College (later renamed the University of Wisconsin-Platteville). The Student Union is in final stages of construction, and in the foregroun...
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Sousaphone Player in Barnyard

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Description: Member of a local farmers' band practicing in a barnyard with a cow and pony. Another animal, unidentified, stands behind the sousaphone player.
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Armory Gymnasium Annex Demolition

Date: 1956
Description: Gymnasium annex undergoing demolition on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) is on the left. Three men are working...
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Labor Day Parade

Date: 1955
Description: The Brooklyn Grange parade float in a Labor Day parade. Men and women on the float mimic various household and recreational activities.
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State Patrol Field Headquarters

Date: 1955
Description: State patrol officers line up beside their patrol cars at Old District 1 State Patrol Field Headquarters on Highway 12. They appear to be receiving instruc...
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Filming a Prescribed Prairie Burn

Date: 1953
Description: Disney film crew in UW-Madison Arboretum's Curtis Prairie filming a prescribed burn.
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Filming The Vanishing Prairie

Date: 04 13 1953
Description: Disney film crew filming a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A camer...

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