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John L. O'Connor

Date: 01 24 1945
Description: John L. O'Connor, President, O'Connor Gasoline and Oil Company, 211 South Brearly Street, looking in file drawer.
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Piggly Wiggly Burglary

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Daniel A. Foxvog, manager of the Piggly Wiggly super market, 1860 East Washington Avenue, is shown looking at where a safe stood before burglars carried it...
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Leo L. Lunenschloss Retires

Date: 05 01 1952
Description: Leo L. Lunenschloss (front row, center), vice-president of the Ohio Chemical and Surgical Equipment Co. is shown at his retirement dinner. On the left is G...
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John R. Wrage

Date: 09 01 1954
Description: Portrait of John R. Wrage, general campaign manager of the 1954 United Givers Campaign, as well as personnel director and assistant vice-president at Gisho...
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Olson's Broadway Cities Service Station

Date: 11 18 1954
Description: Advertising portrait of Ole Olson. He is wearing a uniform and bow tie with emblem patches on his jacket and cap. He is holding a gas hose nozzle and is st...
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Advertising Shapes American Life

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: John Worden and Ralph Denu recently formed an art studio bearing both of their names. Advertising agencies often use such an art studio.
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Harold Van Gordon, Paint Department Manager

Date: 09 28 1957
Description: Harold Van Gordon, manager of the paint department, poses by the paint brush display in the paint department at C & P Shopping Center at 3830 Atwood Avenue...
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Contagious Hospital Purchase

Date: 01 13 1958
Description: Mayor Ivan A. Nestingen, seated, receives a $325,000 check as payment for the purchase of the city's contagious hospital at 1954 East Washington Avenue by ...
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Tri Association Council Night

Date: 05 22 1957
Description: Ron Ross, president of the Tri-Association Council of the East Side Business Men's Association, the West Side Business Men's Association and the South Side...
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Madison Improvement Corporation Meeting

Date: 06 16 1958
Description: Leaders in the Madison metropolitan area met to learn more about the Madison Improvement Corporation whose purpose is to buy and develop land for the expan...
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Madison Improvement Corporation Meeting

Date: 06 16 1958
Description: Leaders in the Madison metropolitan area met to learn more about the Madison Improvement Corporation whose purpose is to buy and develop land for the expan...
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Madison Improvement Corporation Meeting

Date: 06 16 1958
Description: Leaders in the Madison metropolitan area met to learn more about the Madison Improvement Corporation whose purpose is to buy and develop land for the expan...
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Ozark Air Lines Starts Madison Flights

Date: 03 01 1959
Description: A group of men posing in front of an engine and under the fuselage of a DC-3 air liner. The original caption states: "Cutting the tape for the inaugural fl...
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Ben Franklin Store Opens on Monona Drive

Date: 05 21 1959
Description: Robert Retzlaff (left), manager of the newly opened Ben Franklin variety store at 4204 Monona Drive, posing in the foreground on his store's first day of b...
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Madison Junior Achievement Corporation

Date: 08 03 1959
Description: Loren Thompson, seated, becomes the first teenager to become a member of the Madison Junior Achievement Corporation. Looking on are Don Alexander, secretar...
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Madison Junior Achievement Officers

Date: 11 13 1959
Description: Group portrait of seventeen officers of newly established teenaged business firms of the Madison Junior Achievement program. Under the program, the teenage...
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State Retail Merchants Incorporation

Date: 03 04 1960
Description: Wisconsin Secretary of State Robert C. Zimmerman, seated, looks over papers of incorporation for the Wisconsin Retail Merchants Association. Looking on are...
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National Sales Executives Rally

Date: 10 04 1960
Description: Leaders of the National Sales Executives Club of Madison go over plans for the annual fall sales rally. Left to right: Ernest Haar (Ray-O-Vac), Harry Manze...
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Contractors 'Spahnferckel'

Date: 11 14 1960
Description: Present at the Contractors 'Sphanferkel,' a pork roast feast at which contractors meet socially with manufacturers, suppliers, and sales representatives wi...
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Contractors 'Spahnferckel'

Date: 11 14 1960
Description: Present at the Contractors 'Sphanferkel,' a pork roast feast at which contractors meet socially with manufacturers, suppliers and sales representatives wit...

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