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Test Kitchen and Laboratory

Date: 10 16 1945
Description: Slightly elevated view of five women workers in an Oscar Mayer Company test kitchen and laboratory. A low wall is separating two women working at desks on ...
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Test Kitchen and Laboratory at Oscar Mayer

Date: 10 16 1945
Description: Slightly elevated view of five women researchers performing various aspects of food research and related activities in a test kitchen and laboratory at the...
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Measuring for Window

Date: 09 26 1935
Description: Workman measuring for window at Christ Presbyterian Church, 124 Wisconsin Avenue. A woman is taking notes and a man is sweeping.
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Champion Cow Milker

Date: 10 28 1931
Description: A young woman is demonstrating her championship cow-milking skills as she is sitting on a low stool and milking a Holstein cow. A person (out of frame) is ...
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Mautz Paint & Glass Company Chemist

Date: 04 24 1929
Description: Chemist at workbench at the Mautz Paint & Glass Company, 939 E. Washington Avenue.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 04 15 1929
Description: Man weighing Mautz paint pails at Mautz Paint Company with a new Toledo scale.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: A man is weighing a bucket on an old scale at the Evans Creamery.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: Toledo scale at Mt. Horeb Creamery, with a man weighing a milk can.
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Gardner Bakery Donut Making

Date: 04 02 1928
Description: Gardner Baking Company making Purity Doughnuts. Doughnuts are coming down a chute from a machine, and a baker is standing and attending one of the machines...
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Men Greasing Cars

Date: 07 01 1927
Description: Men greasing cars in the Klean Rite Auto Laundry, located at 739 East Mifflin Street.
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American House, 323 E. Main Street

Date: 1890
Description: The Flom Hotel or American House, located at 323 East Main Street at the corner of South Hancock Street, existed from 1865 to 1925. Attached to the buildin...
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Residence of General Simeon Mills

Date: 1874
Description: Residence of General Simeon Mills.
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Restaurant Institute at Madison Vocational School

Date: 01 17 1951
Description: Chef Instructor Eldred Heiser looking on as student William Moran of Boscobel is slicing a leg of veal for noon lunch at the newly-opened Restaurant Instit...
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Belmont Hotel Window Painting

Date: 06 18 1952
Description: William F. Guethlein, Sauk City, resting on a scaffold on the Belmont Hotel, 31 North Pinckney Street. He has been repairing and painting the hotel windows...
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St. Raphael Cathedral Remodeling

Date: 09 08 1953
Description: Carpenters install a four-story wall to close off the front of the St. Raphael's sanctuary during the remodeling project that will rebuild the sanctuary an...
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MGM Trackless Train

Date: 08 1925
Description: The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "Trackless Train" parked in front of the Hotel Loraine on West Washington Avenue. The YMCA can be seen on the right. The "Trackless...
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The Schlitz

Date: 1905
Description: The Schlitz Saloon on the corner of Doty and King Streets. The saloon was owned by Fred C. Harbort from 1900-1907. There is a man in an apron standing at t...
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Kennedy Dairy Company

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of horse-drawn milk wagons and drivers posing in front of the Kennedy Dairy Company, 621-629 West Washington Avenue. Some drivers are standin...
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Windows Washed at the Madison Inn

Date: 06 29 1961
Description: Madison Inn employee Allen Wheeler using a window-washing brush attached to 60-foot long handle with a thin hose which carries soap and water threaded thro...
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Windows Washed at the Madison Inn

Date: 06 29 1961
Description: Madison Inn employee Allen Wheeler using a window-washing brush attached to 60-foot long handle with a thin hose which carries soap and water threaded thro...

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