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Security State Bank Lobby

Date: 03 26 1927
Description: Lobby of the Security State Bank, with depositors waiting in line at teller's windows.
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Jennie Justo

Date: 05 15 1933
Description: Jennie Justo with hat in hand, is embraced by her mother, Lena Justo, as she leaves for a year in the Milwaukee jail for being the alleged owner of a stude...
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Old-Style Hotel Water Softener

Date: 06 19 1945
Description: Three men look at an old style water softener in the basement of the Hotel Loraine, 123 West Washington Avenue. "Eight feet high, eight feet nine inches in...
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Rennebohm Drugstore Clerk with Vitamins

Date: 10 24 1944
Description: Rennebohm drugstore clerk showing male customer a box of Plenamins vitamins.
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Chemist Testing Paint

Date: 06 24 1944
Description: Female chemist using C.M. Ambrose Company paint mixer for testing paint, with a man looking on at the Mautz Paint and Varnish Company, 939 East Washington ...
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Spice Collection

Date: 09 09 1943
Description: Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef, proudly displaying his spice collection.
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Lone Cowboy

Date: 01 28 1936
Description: A man dressed as a cowboy is sitting and holding a guitar in front of a microphone in W.I.B.A. studios, 111 King Street, Room 28.
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Nurse in front of Refrigerator

Date: 04 16 1935
Description: A nurse in uniform standing in front of an open refrigerator, checking vials of medicines at the Wisconsin General Hospital.
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Man Selling Ties to Emerie Ann Lincoln

Date: 03 21 1935
Description: A man is selling neckties to blues singer Emerie Ann Lincoln, at Spoo & Stephan Store, 18 N. Carroll Street.
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Woman & Baby

Date: 02 14 1935
Description: Woman sitting in a chair, holding a baby. Taken for Sheboygan Press Newspaper.
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Governor La Follette's New Chauffeur

Date: 01 12 1935
Description: Governor La Follette's new chauffeur, Steve Tschida, in the garage standing next to the car. 838 W. Washington Avenue.
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New Year's Baby

Date: 12 28 1934
Description: "Miss 1935," one-year-old Lois Ann Endres, daughter of Emil and Berniece Endres, 534 W. Mifflin Street, standing in an overstuffed chair wearing top hat an...
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Reverend and Mrs. Allen L. Eddy

Date: 12 06 1934
Description: Portrait of Reverend and Mrs. Allen L. Eddy. Reverend Eddy is the new minister for Plymouth Congregational church.
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Three Hunters

Date: 11 19 1934
Description: Three hunters posing with shotguns and their bounty of a fox, squirrels and rabbits. The man on the right may be UW-Madison chef Carson Gulley.
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Chris Copus Family

Date: 10 29 1934
Description: Portrait of seven of the twelve members of the Chris Copus family standing beside a pot belly stove in their makeshift garage home on Roth Street. They wer...
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Candy Making

Date: 10 13 1934
Description: John Karch stirring a hot pot of candy syrup on a stove, while trays of finished candy are cooling on the table.
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Women's Club Presidents

Date: 10 09 1934
Description: Portrait of three women's club presidents. Mrs. Hazel Jenks, 2015 Jefferson Street, President of the Madison Woman's club; Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole, Gener...
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Howard Miner Receiving Poppy

Date: 09 20 1934
Description: Howard Miner, disabled World War I veteran, receiving Forget-me-not flower from Florence Palz, ladies auxiliary chairman, marking the opening of the forget...
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Keppel - Fritz Wedding

Date: 08 30 1934
Description: Valeria M. Keppel and Roland Fritz on their wedding day at the home of her parents, 825 South Shore Drive.
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Keppel - Fritz Wedding

Date: 08 30 1934
Description: Valeria M. Keppel and Roland Fritz on their wedding day at the home of her parents, 825 S. Shore Drive.

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