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Westinghouse Window Display

Date: 12 03 1934
Description: Westinghouse Electric Supply Co., 1022 East Washington Avenue, window display featuring Westinghouse appliances and a female model using a mangle.
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Comfy Marcel Shoppe Interior

Date: 11 22 1934
Description: Five beauty operators and four customers in the Comfy Marcel Shoppe, 1917 Winnebago Street, beauty parlor. Includes advertising text: "For better beauty cu...
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Cedric Parker Gets a Facial

Date: 11 24 1933
Description: Lucille Bump, beauty operator, applying a mudpack to the face of Cedric Parker, Capital Times newsman at Mrs. Wengel's Marinello Shop, 125 State Street.
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Electrical Switchboard

Date: 02 24 1932
Description: New electrical switchboard for the State Office Building.
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Lie Detector Test

Date: 12 04 1931
Description: Technicians administer a lie detector test at District Attorney Fred Risser's office to be used in the James Corcoran poisoning case.
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Interference Eliminator for a Radio

Date: 09 29 1930
Description: Interference eliminator for a radio, made by Kidder's Radio Shop.
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Electrical Control Board

Date: 10 13 1928
Description: Electrical control board at the new Orpheum Theatre at 216 State Street.
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Rexair Company Employees

Date: 11 25 1947
Description: Group portrait of Rexair (vacuum cleaner) Company male and female employees in the Pompeii Room of the Loraine Hotel, with a live turkey and a poster that ...
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New Lighting in WHS Library Lobby

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Description: A worker on scaffolding installs ceiling tiles and new lights, concealing the plaster coffers in the library lobby of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

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