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| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Seaman 1st class Tom Teeley with newsboy, Bernard Ehrmann, holding a copy of the Wisconsin State Journal with headline declaring peace in the Pacific. Cele... |
| Date: | 09 28 1942 |
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| Description: | Highway billboard advertising Wisconsin cheese for the Department of Agriculture and Markets. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
| Date: | 10 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Donut queen posed for advertising campaign. The female model is holding a box of donuts and is sitting on a large clock bearing the slogan: "It's Always Do... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A view down Park Street at Olin Avenue. On the corner of Olin is Moore's Super Service Mobil Station and McCranner Drugs. |
| Date: | 10 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Officers of Auxiliary No. 2, United Automobile Workers (Seaman Body Company) celebrate their thirteenth anniversary at the Tic Toc Club. Left to right: K... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Georgia O'Keeffe's birthplace on the corner of Townhall and County T. The original building was burned down sometime in the 1970's. |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Caption on negative sleeve: "Aldo Leopold and son Luna (standing); Mrs. Leopold and two daughters Nina and Estella (kneeling). 'Shack' in background." The ... |
| Date: | 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with two children leaning against a snowman. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting construction of the first Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1816. In the painting, several o... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Local wrestler "Jimmy" Demetral poses flexing his muscles in front of a painting of himself. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Stoughton druggist, O.N. Falk, sorts the mail with a smile. |
| Date: | 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Wisconsin Historical Society Pioneer Drugstore Exhibit. Pictured are several decorative showglobes, a leech jar, and shelves of variou... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad station, 219 S. Blair St., along with the Lake View Hotel, 524 E. Wilson St, in Madison. A man holding... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of a farmer in a tobacco field on a McCormick-Deering Farmall Cub tractor with attached cultivator. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Farmer using a McCormick Farmall H tractor in a cornfield near a pond. The tractor is equipped with a cultivator. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Pharmacist Robert Fischelis (front and center) wears a sombrero and poses with colleagues at an annual American Pharmaceutical Association convention. |
| Date: | 09 1947 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman, standing at the rear of a railroad car. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Farmer standing in open barn door shelling corn with belt-driven McCormick hammer mill run by a Farmall C tractor. |
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