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Johnson Wax Company

Date: 1955
Description: Interior hallway view of the Johnson Wax Co. building.
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Ludlow Hotel

Date: 1955
Description: The Ludlow Hotel, built by Arabut Ludlow and razed in 1955.
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Pirsch Pumper Fire Truck

Date: 1955
Description: This open-cab, engine-forward pumper built by Peter Pirsch & Son of Kenosha for the City of Owatonna, probably dates from about 1955, the year in which the...
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Mount Horeb Schools

Date: 1955
Description: Mount Horeb Schools. Caption reads: "Mt. Horeb Schools, Mt. Horeb, Wis."
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Striking Sugar Workers

Date: 1955
Description: Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u...
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Knaggs Ferry Marker

Date: 1955
Description: Knaggs Ferry marker. Dedicated to James Knaggs who operated a ferry in Oshkosh for nineteen years.
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Katz Family

Date: 1955
Description: Group portrait of the Katz family (from left): Ruthie, Rosa, Mark, and Arthur.
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Maynard Brichford

Date: 1955
Description: Maynard Brichford, Illinois State Archivist and noted authority on archives and record management issues, photographed earlier in his career in the archive...
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Historical Library Reading Room

Date: 1955
Description: View of the Historical Society Library Reading Room taken from the Visitors Gallery. Although undated, the photograph was probably taken shortly after the...
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Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room

Date: 1955
Description: Historical Society Library Reading Room and the Visitors Gallery after their modernization during the mid-1950s. Prominent among the visible changes are a...
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Wisconsin Historical Society Library

Date: 1955
Description: Alternate view of the modernization of the Historical Society Library Reading Room completed in the mid-1950s. Most prominent here is the division of the ...
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New Floors for the Historical Society Library Reading Room

Date: 1955
Description: Construction work in the Historical Society Library Reading Room in preparation for installing linoleum floor tiles.
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Modernization in SHSW Library

Date: 1955
Description: Ceiling high scaffolding in the Wisconsin Historical Society Library reading room, with a man and a woman attempting to study at the tables in the foregrou...
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Lucille Kellar

Date: 1955
Description: Lucille Kellar, coordinator of the Historical Society's McCormick Collection, with the new cases for the collection. She is standing outside the north entr...
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Chequamegon Bay Fishermen

Date: 1955
Description: Three fisherman in a boat pulling in a net full of fish on Chequamegon Bay while a man and a boy look on.
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Chequamegon Bay Fishing

Date: 1955
Description: Four men and a boy netting trout from boat on Chequamegon Bay.
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Three Fisherman at Little Sand Bay

Date: 1955
Description: Catch of lake trout displayed by three fisherman on the pier at Little Sand Bay. From left to right are Martin Johnson, Hermy Johnson, and Myron Lohman.
Postcard

Solomon Log Cabin Replica

Date: 1955
Description: View toward the front entrance of the cabin with a stone chimney on the right.
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Marquette University Library

Date: 1955
Description: Exterior of library building with entrance to the left of center.
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Carl Braden

Date: 1955
Description: Prison identification photograph of Carl Braden after his conviction for sedition.

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