Date: | 12 1954 |
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Description: | Department of Public Works workers look over signs to be posted on city streets. |
Date: | 1950 |
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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. |
Date: | 1954 |
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Description: | Rabbi Max Lipschitz, and a group of Bar Mitzvah students wearing prayer shawls and yarmulkes, (Jewish skullcaps) gather around the torah on the altar to re... |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | Two men operate a machine that uses wires to make equal portions out of a large slab of butter. |
Date: | 09 29 1950 |
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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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Description: | Workers erecting scaffolding outside the First Unitarian Society Meeting House during construction. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and the... |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | Destroying slot machines and other illegal gambling devices at Law Park. From L to R: John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigaret tax division; ... |
Date: | 1952 |
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Description: | Democratic Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson arriving at the Loraine Hotel for a speaking engagement. During the campaign Senator Joseph R. McCarthy r... |
Date: | 1956 |
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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... |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | Two women compete in a curling match. Several spectators are visible in the background. |
Date: | 1947 |
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Description: | A gas station attendant puts on his coat outside the White Grocery and Filling Station in Madison. A sign near the pumps reads, "Please Give Me Ten Seconds... |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | The Brooklyn Grange parade float in a Labor Day parade. Men and women on the float mimic various household and recreational activities. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | Wisconsin Air National Guard. A man in a leather jacket and cap is loading (?) guns in wings of an F-51 fighter plane. |
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Description: | Members of the Wisconsin Idea Theater Group in costume, one man posing dressed as a fisherman, a woman as a bathing beauty, and another person as a giant f... |
Date: | 1955 |
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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... |
Date: | 1953 |
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Description: | Disney film crew in UW-Madison Arboretum's Curtis Prairie filming a prescribed burn. |
Date: | 03 1953 |
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Description: | William Scott, former torch boy, holding one of the kerosene torches used in fire fighting in the 1880's. |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | Professor Kenneth Weckel of the University of Wisconsin demonstrates his new method of preserving and canning cranberries whole without smashing them. The ... |
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Description: | A group of teenagers lounge about on bales of hay in a barn at the Dane County Junior Fair and Horse Show. Cows are resting nearby on the right. |
Date: | 11 1946 |
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Description: | Four men playing cards at a table with a fifth man seated on a radiator observing at left. In the foreground, a dog clears an empty beer bottle from the ta... |
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