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Industrial Safety Shoe Warning Sign

Date: 1921
Description: Industrial safety sign or poster warning factory workers of the dangers of wearing poor shoes at work. The sign's text reads: "Bum Shoe Causes Burn; Ed Gab...
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Traveling Library

Date: 1931
Description: Two women select books from the opened back of a traveling branch library in a truck parked on a street.
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Hillside Block Unit — Midget Unit Christmas Party

Date: 1957
Description: A group of smiling children posing with three adults. They are standing behind a table covered with baked goods, and Christmas decorations are on the wall ...
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Christmas Party, Home Nursing Neighbors

Date: 1957
Description: Several women and children are standing and posing, with a Christmas tree behind them, and tables in front of them that have gifts on them. Caption reads: ...
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Baby Clinic and Rest Tent, Dane County Fair

Date: 08 1918
Description: Three women in nurse's uniforms are standing in a tent, where several children and women are seated on chairs. Displays of cribs, cloths (possibly diapers)...
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Wisconsin Delegation to 56th American Federation of Labor Convention

Date: 11 1936
Description: Group portrait of 22 people posing in front of a building. A caption on the back of the image identifies many of the people, though it does not seem to acc...
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Floral Print Dresses

Date: 02 15 1989
Description: Three girls are sitting on a wicker chair, and wearing floral print dresses. The middle girl is holding a parasol over the three of them. Caption reads: "F...
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Green Bay Precinct Committeemen

Date: 11 04 1936
Description: Two men and a woman are sitting in the center, with the man in the middle holding up a piece of paper that they are looking at. A large group of people are...
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Merle Patton and Dr. H.T. Sondergaard

Date: 1937
Description: Two men ---- one in a mailman's uniform ----- standing on either side of an oversized special pass to a screening of the film "The Life of Emile Zola" star...
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Production Crew Filming "Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man"

Date: 10 03 1961
Description: Several people standing on a street. A ladder and film lights are visible. Caption reads: "Saxon Wis Oct 3 1961. 20th Century Fox motion picture studio cre...
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Wisconsin Farm Bureau Orchestra on Bus

Date: 1930
Description: 22 men and 22 women posing in and around a bus, which has a sign on the side that reads: "Mitchell Co. Farm Bureau Orchestra, Bruce Lybarger, Director. Osa...

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