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| Date: | 07 09 1970 |
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| Description: | Picket line of striking Northwest Airlines ticket agents and office workers who were represented by the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks. |
| Date: | 10 16 1952 |
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| Description: | A worker is using a machine to cut metal strips for fountain pen nibs at the Parker Pen factory. |
| Date: | 01 18 1921 |
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| Description: | A man wearing overalls shaping a piece of metal at a workbench. A variety of hand tools are on the bench and the wall. The man is likely working at Interna... |
| Date: | 08 08 1918 |
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| Description: | Two men use a crane to move large parts inside an International Harvester manufacturing plant. The factory is likely International Harvester's Osborne Work... |
| Date: | 06 26 1946 |
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| Description: | A gas station attendant talks to a customer in a car at the H.W. Risberg & Sons Black Eagle Service Station, 1200 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Mary Hawkins, assisted by Thorwald Anderson, Checker Cab driver, arrives for a Thanksgiving dinner served by the Volunteers of America to 56 members of its... |
| Date: | 12 15 1945 |
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| Description: | "Ole" Odegaard, tire repairman at Edwards Tire Company, 506 University Avenue, re-treading tires. |
| Date: | 06 05 1946 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Thelen shown boarding one of the "fast express" buses operating between Madison and Milwaukee by Badger Coaches, Inc. The driver shown is Bill Bes... |
| Date: | 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal linotype operator at work. |
| Date: | 12 18 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two postal employees sorting mail at the Madison post office, 215 Monona Avenue, at Christmas. Pictured are clerk Donald Memhard dumping ... |
| Date: | 12 18 1947 |
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| Description: | Postal clerk Matt Morrell stacking sacked parcels on a cart at the Madison Post Office, 215 Monona Avenue, to be hauled to the railroad station during the ... |
| Date: | 01 17 1948 |
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| Description: | Milk delivery man in work clothes being greeted at the door of a residence by a woman and young girl as he delivers milk and dairy products. Shown in the ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Charles Coseniro(?) examines the contents of a box in a warehouse at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A factory worker is using a pulley system to move a part at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker is looking at an index card in what appears to be a parts storage area at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The boxes stacke... |
| Date: | 05 26 1948 |
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| Description: | WIBA-FM, 45,000 watts, tower was built at Blue Mounds Park, and radiated power starting about June 10, 1948. WIBA was established in 1925 by The Capital... |
| Date: | 10 30 1948 |
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| Description: | John Ochalle, employee of the Durfee Brothers Roofing Company, who discovered evidence of a burglary at the company's place of business at 1804 South Park ... |
| Date: | 11 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Frank Conner, manager of the Fiore Coal and Oil Co., Filling Station, 601 West Washington Avenue, following a robbery. He is standing in front of an empty ... |
| Date: | 12 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Geraldine Sommer, foreground, and Frances Zeier, two operators in the Madison office who have been trained to operate transmitting machines for the new spe... |
| Date: | 01 27 1949 |
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| Description: | August F. Klitzman, elevator operator at the Dane County Courthouse, at the controls in the elevator. |
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