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Hospital Care

Date: 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin-Whitewater students care for a patient at the Fort Atkinson Hospital.
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Buying Paint

Date: 1950
Description: A couple waits at the checkout stand with a shopping cart and cans of Mautz paint and other supplies to purchase.
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Cutting the Cheese

Date: 1950
Description: Wisconsin Department of Agriculture workers cut large blocks of Swiss cheese.
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Television for Patients

Date: 1950
Description: Hospital or nursing home patients are able to view television in their rooms.
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Pharmacist

Date: 1950
Description: A pharmacist working in the lab area of a pharmacy.
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Oiling the Machine

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Description: A man uses an oil can to lubricate equipment in a machine shop.
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Home Workshop

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Description: A man cuts a block of wood on a table saw in his workshop.
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Rural Telephone Operator

Date: 11 1954
Description: Henry Anderson runs a switchboard on his 90th birthday, with his smoking paraphernalia and a photograph of him at the switchboard on a table nearby.
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Newspaper Print Shop

Date: 1950
Description: Sports editor and sports reporter from the "Wisconsin State Journal" confer with a printer over trays of lead type.
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Stoking the Fire

Date: 1950
Description: A man in work clothes gets ready to shove a log into the fire chamber of a boiler.
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Snow Cones for the Kids

Date: 1950
Description: Children enjoy cold treats while being entertained, as nuns and an adult male look on.
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Coffee Club

Date: 1950
Description: Two men clink coffee mugs as they prepare to drink their morning coffee.
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Map Gazing

Date: 1950
Description: A man and woman look at wall-size maps as he points to the east coast of the United States.
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Public Works Department

Date: 12 1954
Description: Department of Public Works workers look over signs to be posted on city streets.
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Metalworker

Date: 1950
Description: The components of a necklace come together under the skilled hands of a jewelry maker.
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Gem Cutter

Date: 1950
Description: Arthur Virthaler, professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the studio with materials and tools for making jewelry. He was known for sim...
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Visiting a Lead Mine

Date: 1950
Description: Students from Platteville, Wisconsin tour a mine to see how lead is extracted.
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Reading the Scriptures

Date: 1954
Description: Rabbi Max Lipschitz, and a group of Bar Mitzvah students wearing prayer shawls and yarmulkes, (Jewish skullcaps) gather around the torah on the altar to re...
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Precise Cuts

Date: 1950
Description: A jigsaw in the hands of Harry Westphal makes smooth curves on the end of a piece of wood.
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Lab Work

Date: 1950
Description: Holding a dropper over racks of test tubes, a man in a lab coat aims to place drops in the receptacles.

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