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Carman's Blacksmith Shop

Date: 06 24 1945
Description: Charles Carman Blacksmith Shop, South Franklin Street between East Main and East Wilson Streets, demolished to build a four-unit apartment building. The or...
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St. Mary's School of Nursing Graduates

Date: 06 24 1945
Description: Group portrait of 21 nurses, standing on the steps in front of Alumni Hall, 1100 Delaphaine Court, at St. Mary's Hospital. They graduated from St. Mary's H...
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Wisconsin Human Rights Commission

Date: 06 29 1945
Description: Members of the new Governor's Commission on Human Rights which will promote tolerance on a statewide basis and fight prejudice and hate. Shown left to righ...
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Fire Fighters Loading Red Cross Boxes

Date: 07 29 1945
Description: Madison fire fighters load Red Cross boxes to send overseas. Each box contained 36 knit bags made and filled by volunteers, each bag contained a pencil, st...
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Pyramid Motor Company

Date: 07 26 1945
Description: The "Parts and Accessories" counter at the Pyramid Motor Company, 434 W. Gilman Street. The design of the counter is of the Art Deco style.
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Monarch Machine Shop Building

Date: 07 28 1945
Description: Monarch Machine Shop, Inc., 2530 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Meehan Motor Mart

Date: 08 11 1945
Description: Exterior view of Meehan Motor Mart, 209 East Washington Avenue, and the Jimmy Dodge Restaurant, 203 East Washington Avenue, and the H.F. Sharratt and Compa...
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Paper Drive

Date: 08 11 1945
Description: Members of the Junior Red Cross, Boy Scouts of Troops 20 and 30, and boys of Madison, sitting on the back of a Truax Field army truck loaded with waste pap...
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Junior Red Cross War Related Activities

Date: 08 15 1945
Description: Junior Red Cross members making Christmas tree decorations for military service units and hospitals overseas. Arline Whitefoot, on the right, assists a you...
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Parker-Gooding Wedding

Date: 08 08 1945
Description: Wedding party of Virginia M. Parker and Sgt. Lawrence E. Gooding, Jr., with their mothers in front of the altar at Blessed Sacrament Church.
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Old State Historical Society Light Fixtures

Date: 1954
Description: Pile of original first floor light fixtures photographed during the remodeling of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin building during the summer.
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Library Staff and Service Desk

Date: 02 08 1955
Description: Library staff members at the new consolidated service desk in the Historical Society Library Reading Room. Microfilm cubicles have not yet been installed ...
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Library Reading Room Construction

Date: 1954
Description: Historical Society Library Reading Room during the modernization of the 1950s, with materials and furniture stored at one end of the room.
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Modernization in Periodicals Room

Date: 02 08 1955
Description: Modernization in the old Periodical Room (#227) including a view of the beams used to strengthen the mezzanine floor for the storage of the McCormick Colle...
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Periodicals Room Ceiling

Date: 02 08 1955
Description: Southeast corner of Room #227,in the Wisconsin Historical Society. The old Periodicals Room, showing the original ceiling decoration and new wall construct...
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Soldiers at Shrivenham

Date: 1946
Description: U.S. soldiers are sitting on the ground between classes at Shrivenham. The school at Shrivenham was operated by the Army after the end of the war, and thi...
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Coffin Cart

Date: 1946
Description: A coffin cart photographed by Sigurd Olson while traveling, probably in Germany, shortly after the end of the World War II.
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Enroute to Class

Date: 1946
Description: Conservationist Sigurd F. Olson, who was on a special military teaching assigment, took this picture of U.S. troops in Berlin marching to his lecture. Bomb...
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MP Headquarters

Date: 1946
Description: Headquarters of Company C of the 793rd Military Police Battalion in post-World War II Germany. Although the location is not identified, Sigurd F. Olson, wh...
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Bomb Throwers

Date: 05 09 1939
Description: Italian gas bomb throwers, wearing their gas masks, riding in a truck during a parade for the anniversary of the founding of the Italian Empire in Rome. Th...

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