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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a construction workers' union sign pickets in the bright sun, followed by a young boy with a homemade sign of support. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Two women in Swiss costume kneeling in the grass during the Swiss Cheese celebration. One is blowing into an alpine horn while the other holds the instrume... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | The Brooklyn Grange parade float in a Labor Day parade. Men and women on the float mimic various household and recreational activities. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | State patrol officers line up beside their patrol cars at Old District 1 State Patrol Field Headquarters on Highway 12. They appear to be receiving instruc... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Professor Kenneth Weckel of the University of Wisconsin demonstrates his new method of preserving and canning cranberries whole without smashing them. The ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Man playing a French horn at the Mazopust dance, part of a 3-day Bohemian celebration before Ash Wednesday. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Large group passing between serving tables at a picnic in honor of Dr. Jones, for fifty years the town's physician. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | City Treasurer D.J. Leigh with an associate, sorting records. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Harry E. Lichter, curator of collections in the museum, examining a specially designed double-barreled automatic machine pistol in the Wald... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. 1955(?). Dog injured in traffic and care by Dane County Humane Shelter. Child playing with bandaged dog." |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| 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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