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Meat Market Display

Date: 1939
Description: Woman worker wearing a butcher's apron, poses holding a ham, in a meat market with Easter ham display.
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Train and Automobile at Intersection

Date: 1939
Description: A train is shown at the intersection of Williamson, S. Blair, and E. Wilson Streets in front of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot.
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Red Dot Potato Chip Bagging Machine

Date: 1939
Description: A woman operates the bagging machine at the Red Dot potato chip factory.
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Red Dot Potato Chip Plant

Date: 1939
Description: Man working with machinery at the Red Dot Potato Chip plant.
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Harvesting Tobacco Leaves

Date: 1939
Description: Field workers gathering and spearing cut tobacco leaves.
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Linear Mound at Picnic Point

Date: 1939
Description: Burl Briggs (far left), and unknown companions pose near a linear burial mound on Picnic Point on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Linear Burial Mound at Picnic Point

Date: 1939
Description: Burl Briggs (right), and an unknown companion pose behind a linear burial mound on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Round Mound Near the Portage at Picnic Point

Date: 1939
Description: A man poses behind a large conical Native American burial mound near the center of Picnic Point on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Round Mound near the base of Picnic Point

Date: 1939
Description: A man poses behind a conical Native American burial mound near the west end of Picnic Point on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Pinckney Street

Date: 1939
Description: South Pinckney Street on the Capitol Square. The view includes several retail shops and a women's clothing store.
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Madison Free Library

Date: 1939
Description: Madison Free Library, 206 North Carroll Street. There are two men standing on the sidewalk outside of the library. In addition, there are several automobil...
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Waters Motor Company

Date: 1939
Description: View across street towards the Waters Motor Company Used Car Sales Lot, located at 746 East Washington Avenue.
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Lock on The Yahara River

Date: 1939
Description: Several men pass through the locks at the Lake Mendota entrance to the Yahara River.
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House at 1513 Hooker Avenue

Date: 1939
Description: Exterior view of house at 1513 Hooker Avenue. Two children are playing in the driveway. The garage door is open and an automobile is parked inside. The hou...
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Droster's Filling Station

Date: 1939
Description: Lincoln Borgrud, in his work clothes, standing at the pumps at Droster's Grocery and Filling Station, 1438 Sherman Avenue. A child stands near a car beneat...
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Pep Up with Wisconsin Kraut

Date: 1939
Description: University of Wisconsin freshman boxing team dressed in boxing uniforms and gloves standing behind stacked cans of sauerkraut with a sign that reads "Pep U...
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Red Dot Potato Chip Workers

Date: 1939
Description: A group portrait of female workers at the Red Dot Potato Chip Company. Fourth from the left in the top row is Vivian Harrison Matheson, identified by Ellis...
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Washburn Observatory

Date: 1939
Description: Two women are walking on the lawn towards the observatory building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A car is parked on the lawn near a tree o...
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Men Stand Outside of Western Union Telegraph Office

Date: 1939
Description: Leon Lamoreux (on the right) and an unidentified man stand outside of the Western Union Branch Office doorway, 650 State Street. The date is between 1937 a...
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Harold N. Hone and His Wife Vivian

Date: 1939
Description: A studio portrait of Harold and Vivian Hone posing with a camera.

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