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| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | The entrance to Christ Presbyterian Church. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | The entrance to the Church of Christ Scientist on Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess finishing barrel heads at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Hess Cooperage employees cutting quarter sawn pieces of oak into barrel staves and heads at the sawmill behind the cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Two employees of Hess Cooperage, working at their outdoor sawmill behind the cooperage, quarter sawing oak logs to be made into barrel staves and heads wit... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A Hess Cooperage employee cutting barrel heads and staves from quarter blocks of oak on a huge saw blade at the sawmill behind the cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Five employees(l to r Joe Hess, Eddy Hess, Tony Hess, Frank "Foots" Hess Jr. and Frank Hess Sr.) of the Hess Cooperage, cut a large oak log to make headers... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess and Eddie Hess assembling staves to form barrels with Frank Hess, Sr. looking on. Foots Hess and Tony Hess are working in the background at the H... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Frank "Foots" Hess Jr. and Tony Hess using a truss hoop driver to install hoops around a barrel at the Hess Cooperage. Also known as "trussing". |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess using a crozing machine to shape an oak barrel at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Frank Hess Sr., owner of Hess Cooperage, finishing the exterior of a barrel on a cooper's lathe. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Frank "Foots" Hess Jr. watching a machine set hoops on a barrel at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess using a circling machine to create a barrel head at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 06 22 1925 |
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| Description: | Funeral of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., at Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison. Mourners gathered around La Follette's flag-draped coffin include Philip... |
| Date: | 06 22 1925 |
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| Description: | Pallbearers (who include Senator Herman Ekern), carry the flag draped casket of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., down the steps of the Wisconsin Capitol... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Barrel making tools and cattails, use for cauking barrels, at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | The Goose Island Ramblers performing at Johnny's Packers Inn. Their instruments include accordions, guitar, and a fiddle. Tommy McDermott sits in on a but... |
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| Description: | The Quaker Melody Boys on WIBA Radio. (Left to right): Al Beaument, announcer, George Gilbertsen, Smilin' Jim McCloskey, and Harry Edwards. |
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| Description: | The band members of Harry Edwards and the Midwesterners pose on their trailer. From left to right are Falkerstein, Severson, Edwards, George Gilbertsen, Ro... |
| Date: | 11 05 1952 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. and Charlotte Kohler, listening to the radio, kept a close tabulation of state and national election returns Tuesday night a... |
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