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Rennebohm Coffee Break

Date: 1979
Description: Two men enjoy coffee and a cigarette at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. At this time cigarette smoking in Madison restaurants took place i...
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Coffee at Rennebohms

Date: 1979
Description: Two women enjoy a cup of coffee at a Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant.
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Rennebohm Diners

Date: 1979
Description: An unidentified couple at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. The couple had finished their meal and left their tip on the table when they wer...
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When the President Comes to Town

Date: 1979
Description: Congressman David Obey introduces a local resident (back to camera), to President Jimmy Carter. Many photographers stand around the edge of the group and a...
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Pro-Life Demonstrators

Date: 1979
Description: A group of pro-life demonstrators holding protest signs assembled to greet President Jimmy Carter during a visit to Wausau. The group is confined behind ba...
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Out for Lunch

Date: 1979
Description: The driver helps a senior citizen board the bus after a lunch at the Medford Senior Center.
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Saving Energy with Insulation

Date: 1979
Description: During an energy tour of his district Congressman Obey visited various sites to observe projects to increase energy efficiency. Here a workman is preparing...
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Apostle Islands Tour

Date: 1979
Description: David and Joan Obey (right) with Senator Gaylord Nelson (2nd from left) and Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus (on Nelson's left) on an Apostle Islands...
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Helen Notari and Helen Zawacki at Political Skills Workshop

Date: 1979
Description: Helen Notari and Helen Zawacki at a ten-week political skills workshop for seniors held at Neighborhood House.
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1420 Combine Detail

Date: 1979
Description: Man standing next to the combine to raise a door.
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1420 Axial-Flow Combine

Date: 1979
Description: Man standing on 1420 axial-flow combine near a pond or lake, near another man sitting in a boat holding a fishing pole.
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1420 Axial-Flow Combine

Date: 1979
Description: Left side view of a man posing standing at the bottom of the steps to the cab of a 1420 axial-flow combine.
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1420 Axial-Flow Combine

Date: 1979
Description: Left side view of a man posing standing at the bottom of the steps to the cab of a 1420 axial-flow combine.
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Police Unit in Holland

Date: 1979
Description: Three-quarter view from rear of diver's side of Police Unit parked on the side of a road. A man wearing a uniform is standing on the front seat through the...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season - The Reverse

Date: 1979
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a man dressed in fishing gear suspended above the fireplace in a living room from a nail in the wall. Below the man is a...
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Eastern Poplar

Date: 1979
Description: An unidentified man, with jacket, hat and gloves, is dwarfed by the forked trunk of a specimen of Populus deltoides, judged in 1976 to be the larges...
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Group Portrait of People at Ribbon Cutting

Date: 1979
Description: Outdoor group portrait of a group of men and women at a ribbon cutting at product show at the 20 year anniversary of the Engineering Center.
Book or Pamphlet

3388 Tractor in a Field

Date: 1979
Description: View from front right of a man driving a 3388 tractor in a field.
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In Breuschwickersheim

Date: 1979
Description: Frederick Brumder (1943-2012), in white sweater, is sitting at a table with relatives in Breuschwickersheim, Alsace, France. The other people are, from lef...
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Boys Playing Hockey

Date: 1979
Description: Two boys playing hockey on a skating rink.

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