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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Stoughton druggist, O.N. Falk, sorts the mail with a smile. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A teenager sitting on a bed talking on the telephone. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two teenage girls are both interested in talking on the telephone. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man operating a ticket booth in the Wisconsin Dells. He is playing a card game, probably solitaire, on the counter. |
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| Description: | Myrland's Sky Lodge, a vacation resort near Montello that boasted a private landing strip for pilots with small planes. The Piper Vagabond in the foregroun... |
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| Description: | The lunch counter at Truax Field, formerly Madison Municipal Airport. Two men are sitting at the counter, probably airport employees, and a waitress is po... |
| Date: | 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Henry Anderson runs a switchboard on his 90th birthday, with his smoking paraphernalia and a photograph of him at the switchboard on a table nearby. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man in work clothes gets ready to shove a log into the fire chamber of a boiler. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two men clink coffee mugs as they prepare to drink their morning coffee. |
| 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: | A female artist sculpting a female figure from clay. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A little girl rides a tricycle in front of the Spot Lunch diner, a former streetcar. The Spot Lunch was located at 640 Williamson Street and owned by John ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the U.S. Post Office, with a Jefferson Community Fire Department truck parked at the curb in front. |
| 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: | 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 06 19 1949 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd at E.H. Myrland's Farm's Sky Lodge at the bathing beauty contest at the dedication of a new swimming pool at the resort which opened... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Three women stand at a table while making Cornish pasties in the kitchen of a small restaurant. |
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| Description: | A uniformed police officer is holding hands with three children. They are standing in a crosswalk at the corner of Spring and Main streets. Behind them on ... |
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| Description: | Three men sit at a table with coffee cups in front of them. A caption identifies them as "Dean [sic] Adams and friends." Deane Adams was co-founder of the ... |
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