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| Date: | 03 25 1944 |
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| Description: | Wendell Willkie speaking with Ed Mergen, "Wisconsin State Journal" veteran typesetter in charge of page layout, in the composing room during Willkie's 194... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A man works on an armature at Fuller & Johnson, 52 North Dickinson Street. Fuller&Johnson produced war material during World War II. |
| Date: | 08 06 1944 |
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| Description: | War workers, families and friends of Gisholt Machine Company at the company picnic held at the Blooming Grove Firemen's Park on Monona Drive. There is a ca... |
| Date: | 06 26 1946 |
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| Description: | A gas station attendant talks to a customer in a car at the H.W. Risberg & Sons Black Eagle Service Station, 1200 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Man operating a drill press at Madison-Kipp Corporation, 201 Waubesa Street, producing war materiel during World War II. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Four women operating sausage-making equipment at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Female employees processing "Yellow Band" weiners at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II. |
| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Mary Hawkins, assisted by Thorwald Anderson, Checker Cab driver, arrives for a Thanksgiving dinner served by the Volunteers of America to 56 members of its... |
| Date: | 11 11 1952 |
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| Description: | Franz Haas, sheriff elect, washing the windshield of a car at his Standard Gas Station, 318 South Park Street. |
| Date: | 11 11 1952 |
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| Description: | Franz Haas, sheriff elect, working under the hood of a car at his Standard Gas Station, 318 South Park Street. |
| Date: | 02 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Pyramid Motors mechanic Wells "Slim" Kleinfeldt turning an "under cutting," a starting motor armature, in the service shop at 434 West Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 02 13 1944 |
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| Description: | A man is putting loaves of bread in an oven at the Heilman Baking Company. |
| Date: | 03 01 1944 |
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| Description: | Michael G. O'Neill sitting in a chair with a railroad lantern. He lived at 526 West Wilson Street and worked 40 years for the Milwaukee Road. |
| Date: | 03 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Ben Stitgen, who in 1943 was business agent of Carpenters Local #314, and in 1946 was training officer of the U.S. Veterans Administration. |
| Date: | 11 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Unidentified man from A.M. Toussaint, heating contractor, fixing a furnace boiler. |
| Date: | 11 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Madison branch of the Filmite Oil Corporation building (a Trachte metal building), located at 828 East Main Street. Also pictured is W.K. Wilson, warehous... |
| Date: | 12 20 1944 |
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| Description: | A mechanic in the service department of Hefty Sales Corporation is preparing to do a complete overhaul of a washing machine. |
| Date: | 12 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Three service wives working at Ray-O-Vac. Left to right: Mrs. Emma Perry, Mrs. Frances Sturdy, and Mrs. Amanda Signer. |
| Date: | 01 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Maj. Gen. Harry C. Ingles, Chief Signal Officer, United States Army, watching two women make batteries at Ray-O-Vac, or RMR (Ruben Mallory Ray-O-Vac). |
| Date: | 01 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray being interviewed by Mrs. R.W. Halvorsen at the RMR plant. The RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac was located in th... |
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