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Albert Mueller, his Mother and Robert Draves

Date: 08 20 1940
Description: Albert Mueller, his mother, and recording technician Robert Draves. Mueller was a Tyrolean zither player.
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Summer Vacation Jobs for Youth

Date: 07 11 1949
Description: Joanne Togstad, a recent graduate of Edgewood High School, stands near the newspaper rack at her University of WIsconsin library summer job.
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Gov. Nelson Dewey Estate - Stonefield

Date: 08 04 1949
Description: Looking over Governor Nelson Dewey's account books at the governor's desk in his office at Stonefield are Raymond Sivesind, state supervisor of historic si...
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Grandson Arriving by Airplane to Visit Grandparents

Date: 07 26 1950
Description: Ricky Pollock of Arlington, Virginia, steps off the plane at the Madison airport for a visit with his grandparents, Charles and Anna Pollock.
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 11 1950
Description: Mrs. Minnie R. Whipple sits at a desk in her office as purchasing agent for the board of regents of the state normal schools. She has held many offices in ...
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Wisconsin Civilian Defense Nurses Enrolment Day

Date: 02 20 1951
Description: Al Hammond, a technician at the state crime laboratory, poses with some testing equipment. As a former medical corps man during World War II, he would be a...
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Dane County Red Cross Activities

Date: 03 20 1951
Description: Mrs. Catherine Coffey at St. Mary's hospital, 720 South Brooks Street, where she lives and works as a dietary helper. The Dane County Red Cross was respons...
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Wisconsin State Journal Editor Leaving for World Tour

Date: 01 15 1952
Description: Roy L. Matson, editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, boarding a plane to start a 25,000-mile air tour of Europe and the Near East under the sponsorship of...
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Softball Player and Bookkeeper

Date: 08 05 1952
Description: The portrait shows "attractive, blue-eyed Mary Cassidy, one of the topnotch players in Madison's feminine softball league." She was employed as a bookkeepe...
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Methodist Hospital Nurse's Aide

Date: 05 29 1953
Description: Etti Gelan, a nurse's aide at Methodist Hospital, giving a drink of water to a male patient, William Laerk of Waukesha. She left her native country of Germ...
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Schappe Motors Employee

Date: 02 17 1954
Description: Portrait of William "Bill" Zurian, in the car-repair business for 34 years. He has been recognized as a Master Technician after graduating from Chrysler Mo...
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Madison General Hospital Auxiliary, Flame Photometer

Date: 09 29 1954
Description: Two volunteer workers of the Madison General Hospital auxiliary, Mrs. John F. Mullen (left), West Point, and Mrs. William W. (Melva) Marling of 302 Walnut ...
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Advertising Shapes American Life

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: Elmer Geishert, press operator at Kramer Business Service, examines a job on the Multilith office type offset press. Kramer performs many direct advertiser...
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University of Wisconsin Student Wives Who Work

Date: 02 07 1956
Description: Dagmar Kammerer works as a nurse's aide at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center. Her husband, Dagmar Kammerer, is a senior political science major at the Univer...
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Career Girls Entertain

Date: 02 15 1957
Description: Jean Ziegler fastens a necklace for Pat Pidcoe in preparation for a dinner party at their apartment at 122 East Gilman Street, Apartment 205.
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Home Economics Day

Date: 03 20 1957
Description: Harriett Allender Steil, interior decorator for Frautschi's and 1951 home economics graduate of the U.W., discusses drapery fabrics with Martha Schmidt, fo...
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Mink "Blue Jeans"

Date: 11 01 1954
Description: A model, and a North Central Airlines stewardess posing at the top of loading stairs leading up to an airliner for Northwest Airlines. The model is posing ...

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