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Manchester's, Inc., Libbey Glassware Window Display

Date: 12 15 1945
Description: Window display at Manchester's, Inc., featuring Libbey glassware and a Christmas wreath.
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Chevrolet #10,000,021

Date: 11 23 1934
Description: Wisconsin Chevrolet officials celebrating a milestone in company history, the 23rd anniversary of the company. On that anniversary date this car was built ...
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Crowd in front of Praga Furniture Store

Date: 04 08 1931
Description: Crowd in front of Praga Furniture store, 203-207 King Street, at 1st Anniversary celebration. The Fess Hotel sign is along a doorway on the right.
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Presentation of the Moose Prize Car

Date: 08 04 1930
Description: Mr. Larson presenting the Moose Whippet prize car to the winner at Whippet Knight Sales Company, 437 W. Gilman Street.
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Groundbreaking Ceremony

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Description: Developers, local dignitaries, and other businessmen participate in a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the Park Tower Apartments.
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Expanded Metal Material Valentine Heart

Date: 02 04 1949
Description: Expanded metal material Valentine heart with six boxes of Keeley's Old Fashioned Chocolates, developed by Research Products Co.
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Decorative Aluminum Foil Display

Date: 03 02 1949
Description: Decorative aluminum foil display with sign, "Make Your Own Decorations With 'RP' Decorative Aluminum Foil" featuring rolls of foil, decorations made of foi...
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Blessed Martin House

Date: 04 22 1948
Description: Four women sewing a 'sleeping garment' at the Blessed Martin House, 746 West Washington Avenue, an interracial and interfaith center sponsored by Madison C...
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Will N. Wells

Date: 02 02 1949
Description: Will N. Wells, of the Wells Printing Company, celebrating his eighty-fourth birthday with friends. Left to right: John G. MacFarland, an actor; J.J. McMana...
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Cornerstone Laying at Trinity Lutheran Church

Date: 05 07 1950
Description: A crowd gathers in front of the partially constructed new building for Trinity Lutheran Church, 1904 Winnebago at First Street. The existing church buildin...
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Catherine Corscot Antique Sale

Date: 08 04 1952
Description: Elevated view of a display of Red Block glass from the antique collection of the late Miss Catherine Corscot.
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Labor Day Parade Float

Date: 09 01 1952
Description: Elevated view of the Iron Workers Local 383 float in the Labor Day parade on Capitol Square. It won first place for originality.
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Christmas Customs

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: Walter Maas of 4029 Council Crest making hand-made Christmas gifts for wife, Cecelia, and children, Twig and Robin.
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Fred M. Schlimgen Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Fred M. Schlimgen of Madison, Wisconsin, designer and builder of memorial markers, with a landscape of classical buildings, a cloud-filled sk...
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Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Hotchkiss and Mrs. Timothy G. Jones

Date: 09 04 1956
Description: Mrs. A.E. Hotchkiss, Mrs. Timothy G. Jones and Mr. A.E. Hotchkiss, visiting from Melbourne, Australia, have been honored at several parties. Mr. Hotchkiss,...
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International Printing Week

Date: 01 14 1958
Description: Four men present at a dinner observing International Printing Week. They include, from left to right: Emil. J. Frautschi, president of the board of directo...
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International Printing Week

Date: 01 14 1958
Description: Lawrence E. Perry (left), and Robert Perry, both of Watertown, and Mark Widen, Madison, look at a poster about Printing Week during a dinner observing Inte...
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International Printing Week

Date: 01 14 1958
Description: Jack Hutchinson (left), Patricia Stroud, Lynn Suhs, and Ward Cowles, head of the graphic arts department at the Vocational School, look at the school's pri...
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International Printing Week

Date: 01 14 1958
Description: Three members of the Madison Area Club of Printing House Craftsmen attend a dinner to observe International Printing Week. They include, from left: Louis B...
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Sue Carolyn Renk

Date: 06 18 1958
Description: Sue Carolyn Renk examines a piece of crystal glassware as her mother, Mrs. Wilbur Renk looks on. She is preparing for her wedding and her graduation.

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