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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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Clothing Enhancement

Date: 1950
Description: A girl draws a design on a blouse worn by a mannequin while a woman observes her progress.
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Tinsel Trees

Date: 1950
Description: A woman fashions a miniature hand-made metallic tree, while tables full of others await packing and shipment for the Christmas holidays.
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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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Practical Joke

Date: 1950
Description: Mounted on a ladder, a man is poised to empty a bucket onto the open umbrella of a man sitting on a sidewalk bench.
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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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Precison Cutting

Date: 1950
Description: Two men operate a machine that uses wires to make equal portions out of a large slab of butter.
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Demolition of Fuller Opera House

Date: 1954
Description: View from atop a building across Wisconsin Avenue of the Fuller Opera House during its demolition.
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State Street and the Wisconin State Capitol

Date: 1957
Description: View up State Street towards the Wisconsin State Capitol taken from the West Johnson Street intersection. Businesses include the Orpheum Theatre, Arenz, an...

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