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Tinkering with the Car

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Description: A man shows two teenagers the intricacies of what is under the hood of the family car.
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Senior Service Girl Scouts

Date: 12 16 1944
Description: Senior Service Girl Scouts of Troop 22 from East High School posing on the stairs after having hung Christmas greens at the USO club. The girls are (left t...
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Frog Jumping Contest

Date: 04 18 1944
Description: Group of boys gather around a frog at a frog jumping contest.
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Edith Wilk Willkie

Date: 03 18 1944
Description: Edith Wilk Willkie (Mrs. Wendell L. Willkie) holding a bouquet of flowers.
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Vocational School Aptitude Testing

Date: 09 28 1944
Description: Two students, Stanley Stemp Jr., Central High School, and Victor Brockmiller Jr., West High School, assemble mechanical devices as part of the vocational a...
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Mrs. Gabe E. (Maria) Michelson

Date: 11 15 1944
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Gabe E. Mickelson (Maria Thompson), taken on the occasion of her 89th birthday.
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Barber Cutting Hair

Date: 05 08 1945
Description: Barber giving haircut to a man reading a newspaper announcing Allied Forces victory in Europe.
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Bookkeeping at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School

Date: 01 10 1948
Description: Loretta Nelson, a commercial student, practicing on a bookkeeping machine at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School, 211-213 North Carroll Street.
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Jewish Council Style Show

Date: 02 02 1948
Description: Mrs. J.J. (Helen) Sinagub is wearing the evening gown she will model at the style show of the National Council of Jewish Women. She is being admired by Mrs...
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Co-eds Lampooning "Beauty Spot" Fad

Date: 02 18 1948
Description: Three University of Wisconsin co-eds sporting "outsize" beauty spots lampooning a fad that is sweeping the country for a stye show sponsored by the Univers...
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Spring Fashions

Date: 02 21 1949
Description: Joan Davis, a Manitowoc coed who reigned on the previous weekend as queen of the 30th Little International Livestock Show sponsored by the College of Agric...
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Couple at Lunt-Fontanne Play

Date: 02 22 1949
Description: Laurence W. and Virginia Hall at the premiere production of the Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne play "I know My Love" at the Wisconsin Union Theater.
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Audience Members at Lunt-Fontanne Play

Date: 02 20 1949
Description: Left to right are: Professor Andrew T. Weaver, Professor William Kiekhofer, Gladys Kiekhofer, and Cornelia Weaver, audience members at the premiere product...
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Nichols School Fourth Graders Visit Classmate in Hospital

Date: 10 11 1950
Description: Fourth graders at Nichols School, Monona, visit their classmate, Burt Fernstrom of 5124 Winnequah Road, who is a patient at St. Mary's Hospital. Standing l...
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Tuberculosis Survivor Repairs Typewriters

Date: 11 12 1951
Description: Robert Lawrence works as an apprentice mechanic at Royal Typewriter Company after his recovery from tuberculosis.
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Beautician Working with Oakwood Resident

Date: 02 24 1953
Description: A resident of the Oakwood Lutheran Nursing Home is given a permanent by an apprentice in the Madison Vocational and Adult School cosmetology program.
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 06 1953
Description: Elizabeth Stemp (right), owner of the Stemp Typewriter Company, shows a typewriter to customer Mildred Subey, associated with the Herfurth Insurance Agenc...
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Silver-Haired Women

Date: 03 30 1954
Description: Portrait of June McGovern whose hair turned prematurely gray but has "dash and imagination." Eleanor Griffith, Irene Amundsen, Virginia Sylvester, Hazel Va...
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Stay-At-Home Mothers

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Mary Hubanks brushes the hair of her daughter Lynne, age 5. The photograph was part of a Mother's Day article featuring the many roles performed by stay-at...
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Newspaper Carriers' Breakfast

Date: 04 11 1956
Description: Madison Newspapers carrier boys were treated to breakfast at Felly's Restaurant, 927 South Park Street. Shown clockwise are: Bob Markham, John Washbush, Bi...

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