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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Gaylord Nelson, later Wisconsin governor, United State senator, and a leading environmentalist of his era, on horseback at a ranch in Rosebud, Montana. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Campaign poster for Joseph R. McCarthy's campaign for circuit judge. McCarthy was considered an underdog in this race, but he campaigned successfully by dr... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man wearing coveralls and a mask spraying paint(?) on a Farmall tractor. The man is probably a service technician or mechanic at an Interational Harvest... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | An factory worker in the Paint Department at McCormick Works discharges 100-gallon ball mills. Another man works in the background on a raised platform in ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | An factory worker at McCormick Works uses an automatic filling and labeling machine. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Two men determine the distillation range of paint thinner in the Paint Department of McCormick Works (factory). |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Factory workers in the Paint Department of McCormick Works charge vehicles and pigment into large ball units. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Factory worker in the McCormick Works Paint Department tests the spraying qualities of automotive enamels. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Factory workers take samples from the 8-ton Brackelsberg Furnace at McCormick Works. The original caption reads: "Furnace has three tap spouts. Large insul... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at McCormick Works tap an 8-top Brackelsberg furnace. The original caption reads: "Control mechanism for rotating and tilting furnace, also... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at McCormick Works charge an 8-ton Brackelsberg Furnace. The original caption reads: "10 charging buckets holding 1,600 lbs. each are moved... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A factory worker stands next to the battery of roller bearing tumble mills at McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Waters Motor Company Used Car Sales Lot, located at 746 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Several men pass through the locks at the Lake Mendota entrance to the Yahara River. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Baltes frying bacon for the children at Kiddie Camp, 3910 Mineral Point Rd. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a bearded man sitting on a rock. The tops of the heads of three people are visible in the lower foreground. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for International model D-50, DR-50, and DS-50 trucks. |
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