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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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Muscoda Woman

Date: 1955
Description: 100-year-old woman, a resident of Muscoda, Wis., sitting at a table, stirring a cup of coffee (?). Newsphoto for the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Lewis Arms and Family

Date: 1955
Description: Lewis Arms poses outdoors with his wife, Elinora, and son, Lewis Arms, Jr.
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Joe Dottl at The Ideal Body Company

Date: 1955
Description: Joe Dottl standing in the Ideal Body Company on Park Street.
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Cranberry Processing

Date: 1955
Description: Professor Kenneth Weckel of the University of Wisconsin demonstrates his new method of preserving and canning cranberries whole without smashing them. The ...
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Man at a Parking Meter

Date: 1955
Description: Man inserting a coin in a parking meter.
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D.J. Leigh Sorting Records

Date: 1955
Description: City Treasurer D.J. Leigh with an associate, sorting records.
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Signe Skott Cooper and Mary Herb

Date: 1955
Description: Mary Herb (left), the Wisconsin State Student Nursing Association President and Signe Skott Cooper (right), Wisconsin State Student Nursing Association Adv...
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Badger Village Star Gazer, Man with Homemade Telescope

Date: 1955
Description: Interior portrait of a man sitting at a kitchen table adjusting his homemade telescope. His wife is washing dishes behind him. Open shelves on the wall dis...
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View of State Street

Date: 1955
Description: View through a glass door towards a woman walking on the sidewalk past a parked car. On the opposite side of the street are signs for Madison Surgical Supp...
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Dane County Republican Women Meeting

Date: 1955
Description: Nine women are sitting around a table. Caption reads: "Pictured above is the meeting of the Dane County Republican Women, held Thursday at 10 a.m. in the L...
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Harry Lichter with Double-barreled Pistol

Date: 1955
Description: Caption reads: "Harry E. Lichter, curator of collections in the museum, examining a specially designed double-barreled automatic machine pistol in the Wald...
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Lieutenant-General Hershey and Brigadier General Olson

Date: 1955
Description: Two men smile and shake hands outside an airplane. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. 1955-1956. Lieut.-Gen. Lewis Hershey (left) former head of the draft, and ...

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