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Frank G. Hough Company Factory Floor

Date: 1951
Description: Factory workers on the floor of the Frank G. Hough Company factory (works). The company manufactured construction and industrial equipment. The company was...
Poster

International Harvester Refrigerator Advertising Poster

Date: 1951
Description: Advertising poster showing a woman displaying color choices for International Harvester refrigerator door handle plaques. Also includes illustrations of a ...
Print

International Harvester Refrigerator Brochure

Date: 1951
Description: Advertising brochure with an image of a woman opening a bottle of soda with the bottle opener on a well-stocked International Harvester Refrigerator while ...
Photograph

International L-110 Truck

Date: 1951
Description: Color photograph of an International L-110 Truck (115-Inch W.B.) with panel body. The truck is parked on the side of a residential street, in front of a ho...
Photograph

Legislators Signing In

Date: 1951
Description: Newly-elected members of the Wisconsin Assembly signing in. Facing the camera left to right are: E. William Proxmire (D-Madison), Hermann Eisner (D-Cross P...
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Sheep Shearing Contest

Date: 1951
Description: Winner Melvin Walker at work during a sheep shearing competition.
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North Henry House Interior

Date: 1951
Description: An interior view of the living room toward the front of 524 North Henry Street. A man is sitting in a chair on the right near the windows.
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Herfurth House

Date: 1951
Description: The front door of the Herfurth house, 703 East Gorham Street, built by Theodore Herfurth around 1870 and owned in 1952 by Mrs. Ralph Dennis. A woman is sta...
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Herfurth House

Date: 1951
Description: The front parlor of the Herfurth house, 703 East Gorham Street, with Mrs. Caleb Harrison (born Lucy Herfurth) sitting on a sofa. The house was built by The...
Poster

International Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1951
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks with a color illustration of a truck driver sitting in an easy chair with his feet propped up under the text "c...
Poster

International Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1951
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks featuring a color illustration of a truck driver talking to a young boy. An International semi-truck is parked ...
Photograph

Official Wisconsin Marker of Shake Rag Street

Date: 1951
Description: The official Wisconsin marker of Shake Rag Street and the committee of citizens who sponsored placing the marker. (Left to right): Ross Graves, President o...
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Home From School

Date: 1951
Description: Two students, a boy and a girl, with their dog, apparently walking home from school, an image that seems to capture the essence of life for rural Wisconsin...
Photograph

Russell Lasley

Date: 1951
Description: Russell Lasley, an African-american leader of the United Packinghouse Workers union and later the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union, meetin...
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Wisconsin Steel Works Parade Float

Date: 1951
Description: Parade float with a replica of the "First Blast Furnace in the Calumet District" for Wisconsin Steel Works. The parade was Chicago's East Side Centennial c...
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Philleo Nash

Date: 1951
Description: Philleo Nash, Wisconsin Rapids cranberry grower, Democratic Party leader, and lieutenant governor, 1959-1961. From 1946 to 1952 he was a special assistant ...
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Single Helical Gear Train

Date: 1951
Description: Single helical gear train that is a component of a gold mine hoist. This unit was purchased and used by Homestake Mining of Lead, South Dakota. Falk captio...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1951
Description: Marjean Czerwinski of Milwaukee, the 1951 Alice in Dairyland, poses eating an ice cream cone with a young boy and girl.
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A Group of Holocaust Survivors in Milwaukee

Date: 1951
Description: A group of women Holocaust survivors. (Cyla Stundel is second from right, back row).
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Color Swatches of Refrigerator Colors

Date: 1951
Description: A female mannequin kneels behind ten color swatches for refrigerator door handles. Text on the display reads, "Pick a Color from the Rainbow!" and "Refrige...

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