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Brand New Oven

Date: 1950
Description: Woman displays a brand new oven/stove.
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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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Office Work

Date: 1950
Description: Women office workers file and take phone calls in a busy shared work space.
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Grocery Shopping

Date: 1950
Description: A grocery clerk boxes up purchases as a woman and her young son wait at the checkout counter.
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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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Weather Radar

Date: 1950
Description: Meteorologists using radar equipment outdoors.
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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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Working the Linotype

Date: 1950
Description: A woman types text into a linotype machine.
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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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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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Dickey and Tony Chapelle

Date: 1950
Description: Dickey Meyer Chapelle poses with her husband Tony Chapelle next to a vehicle.
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Governor Rennebohm

Date: 1950
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm speaking into a microphone on Governor's Day at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Tractor Works

Date: 1950
Description: A woman and two men work with wooden crates at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory).
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Worker at Tractor Works

Date: 1950
Description: Factory worker Charles Coseniro(?) examines the contents of a box in a warehouse at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Dizzy Sizzlers

Date: 1950
Description: The Dizzy Sizzlers were a comedy band based in Watertown that performed throughout Wisconsin during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Communists View MacArthur

Date: 1950
Description: Political cartoon of General Douglas MacArthur and Trygve Lie entitled "Please, here's the towel" and captioned "The UN voting machine ratifying the Americ...
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Grocery Store Representatives at the Cranberry Marsh

Date: 1950
Description: From left to right: W.A. Riordan, John Buck, Leo Sorenson, Jean Nash and Del Hammond. Miss Nash, the owner of the cranberry marsh, escorts representatives ...

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