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Packard Maintenance

Date: 06 29 1946
Description: An African American mechanic works on a car up on the rack for servicing at the gas station Meehan Motor Mart, 209 East Washington Avenue.
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Maple Sugaring

Date: 09 13 1949
Description: A man and woman driving their horse-drawn cart into the woods to collect buckets that are hanging from maple trees. The buckets catch sap that is used to m...
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Unitarian Meeting House Construction

Date: 02 24 1950
Description: A group of workmen posing in front of the First Unitarian Society Meeting House during construction. This is one of two "work days" the men donated to the ...
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Four Women Share a House

Date: 03 21 1955
Description: Joan Williams and Dolores Roegner repair a furnace with a hammer and pliers in the house they share with two other young women at 2253 Rugby Row.
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Mother and Children Decorating Christmas Bread

Date: 12 05 1956
Description: Anne De Witt, 5502 Tolman Terrace, is being helped by her daughter Maureen De Witt, 4, to decorate Christmas bread while her other daughter, Beth De Witt, ...
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Lake Mendota Skin-Divers with Harpoon

Date: 07 12 1955
Description: Skin-divers Dick Charmley and Gary Davies with harpoon in Lake Mendota preparing to fish. Dick Charmley is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Charmley, 20 Paget ...
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West Junior High School Girls Making Cookies

Date: 12 16 1952
Description: Nancy Rieter and Dianne Blanchard, students in the 8th grade home economics class at West Junior High School, mixing cookie batter. The class baked several...
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Madison Community Center Craft Class

Date: 01 04 1955
Description: Lydia MacKenzie, Helen Burkhart, the instructor, and Lucille Harks participate in a class on textile handicrafts at the Madison Community Center.
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Cooking Class Preparing a Turkey for Baking

Date: 11 19 1952
Description: Mrs. K. Moldaye mincing an onion for turkey dressing, with another woman looking on, at a Vocational School cooking class.
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West High School Production "Our Town"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: West High School student production of "Our Town" showing a family scene at breakfast, left to right: Mary Snee, Virginia Baldwin, Barbara Burrell, and Erw...
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West High School Production of "Our Town"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: West High School student production of "Our Town" with two actresses and one actor on a ladder. Left to right: Virginia Baldwin, Joel Salter, and Jerry Eri...
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East High School Automotive Mechanics Class

Date: 12 06 1944
Description: Automotive Mechanics class at East High School. Pictured are Irving Smith with a power driven valve seat grinder, and Bob Koltes checking his work.
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East High School Automotive Mechanics Class

Date: 11 05 1944
Description: Automotive Mechanics class at East High School. Ralph Preez and Bob Mattison are checking a set of headlights.
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Washing Machine Mechanic

Date: 12 20 1944
Description: A mechanic in the service department of Hefty Sales Corporation is preparing to do a complete overhaul of a washing machine.
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Chef Frosting a Cake

Date: 12 21 1944
Description: Otto Wiedholz, Vienna French Pastry Shop, 334 State Street, frosting a cake. Otto and his wife, Elsie, 414 Chestnut Street, are the owners of the pastry sh...
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Edgewood Fence Removal

Date: 01 19 1945
Description: Edgewood fence along Wingra Drive entrance, which had been opened to the public after closing by the Dominican Sisters of Edgewood Academy. Shown is the ro...
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East High School Shop Class

Date: 03 01 1945
Description: Members of the general metals classes at Madison East High School make canes for injured veterans returning from the war. Students Robert Safranek and Merl...
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East High School Shop Class

Date: 03 01 1945
Description: O.I. Dhein, instructor, with East High School shop students Bob Somerville, Carl Carlson and Francis Lockman working on the aluminum heads for canes they w...
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Wisconsin Historical Society Architectural Exhibit

Date: 03 27 1945
Description: Professor J.F. Kienitz, on the left, and Edward J. Law, committee member of the Historic American Buildings Survey in Wisconsin, examining a miniature mode...
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Police Sgt. Richard H. Rossmaessler with Quarry Blast Artifacts

Date: 04 09 1945
Description: Police Sgt. Richard H. Rossmaessler is shown with various explosive devices that injured three boys in a quarry blast explosion.

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