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| Date: | 02 26 1945 |
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| Description: | William W. Cargill, President of Ray-O-Vac, and a Mr. Krug, watching company employees making electric batteries. |
| Date: | 04 05 1945 |
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| Description: | RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) factory floor showing workers making batteries. |
| Date: | 04 04 1945 |
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| Description: | People signing up to work at RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac), a battery manufacturer. |
| Date: | 05 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Robert M. Carnes, on the right, expediter at RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac), 1400 East Washington Avenue, with foreman Jack Young. |
| Date: | 08 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Two Ray-O-Vac employees who have returned to work from serving in World War II. |
| Date: | 10 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Two Capital Decorating Company employees on a scaffold painting window frames in the Park Hotel, 22 South Carroll Street. A man can be seen looking out of ... |
| Date: | 10 17 1945 |
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| Description: | An employee of the Royal Body Company, 9-13 North Brooks Street, operating an air hammer to straighten a dented fender of a automobile. |
| Date: | 12 15 1945 |
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| Description: | "Ole" Odegaard, tire repairman at Edwards Tire Company, 506 University Avenue, re-treading tires. |
| Date: | 12 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Ray Kessenich, Klein-Dickert Co. foreman, painting the trim in a Ray-O-Vac office at 212 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 04 24 1946 |
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| Description: | Water Softener Service, Inc. employee, Kenneth Olson, unloading a portable water softener tank from a specially designed truck. Water Softener Service, Inc... |
| Date: | 04 24 1946 |
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| Description: | "Pat" Maloney, lubrication expert at Madison Motors Incorporated, 332 West Johnson Street, shown using a pressure grease gun. |
| Date: | 04 27 1946 |
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| Description: | Roy Riese, parts department manager, shown behind a service counter in the new parts department at Waters Motor Company, 802 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 06 05 1946 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Thelen shown boarding one of the "fast express" buses operating between Madison and Milwaukee by Badger Coaches, Inc. The driver shown is Bill Bes... |
| Date: | 02 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Four men wrestling with escaped pigs in the backyard of a home in the Nakoma neighborhood. A truck loaded with about 80 hogs overturned in the 3600 block o... |
| Date: | 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal linotype operator at work. |
| Date: | 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal employees at the make up table assembling the newspaper pages. |
| Date: | 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal employees in the press room with the printing presses. |
| Date: | 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal employees in the mail room bundling newspapers. |
| Date: | 12 18 1947 |
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| Description: | Two postal employees of the Madison post office, 215 Monona Avenue, sorting heaps of packages in carts at Christmas. Pictured from left are clerks Fred Boy... |
| Date: | 12 18 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two postal employees sorting mail at the Madison post office, 215 Monona Avenue, at Christmas. Pictured are clerk Donald Memhard dumping ... |
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