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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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Madison Central High School Football Banquet

Date: 12 01 1954
Description: Group portrait of participants recognized at the annual banquet for the Madison Central High School football team. In the back is University of Wisconsin f...
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St. Bernard's Amateur Basketball Tournament Drawing

Date: 12 19 1954
Description: Drawings for the annual St. Bernard's amateur basketball tournament were made at a meeting. Managers of the eight competing teams met with tournament offic...
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Polio Survivors Value March of Dimes

Date: 12 28 1954
Description: Jack W. Thomas, a service manager at Ray-O-Vac International, was diagnosed with polio in 1952 while in the Belgian Congo.
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Polio Survivors Value March of Dimes

Date: 12 28 1954
Description: Everett L. Liddicoat, an insurance agent and 4-year veteran of the Army Air Corps, was diagnosed with polio in 1949.
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Dr. Johan Augustus Bjorksten

Date: 04 21 1955
Description: Portrait of Dr. Johan Bjorksten, President-Treasurer of Bjorksten Research Laboratories for Industry Inc. The headline for the article on the front page of...
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United Commercial Travelers Booster Meeting

Date: 02 04 1956
Description: Portrait of the leaders at a state meeting of the United Commercial Travelers Insurance Company. They include, from left: J.J. Prokop, Madison; Willliam Ba...
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United Commercial Travelers Booster Meeting

Date: 02 07 1954
Description: Visiting at the state meeting of the United Commercial Travelers insurance company are, left to right: George Frost, Madison; Velma Foust, Madison; John Sc...
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United Commercial Travelers Booster Meeting

Date: 02 04 1956
Description: Discussing the program at the state meeting of the United Commercial Travelers insurance company are, left to right: Norval Anderson, Madison; La Verne Mar...
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Advertising Shapes American Life

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: Men sitting around a table during a planning session of the Arthur Towell Advertising Agency. From left to right are: James Newhall, art director; Tom Towe...
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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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Sears Profit Sharing Employees

Date: 02 18 1956
Description: Group portrait of the nine members longest in standing in the Madison Sears, Roebuck and Company "savings and profit-sharing pension fund." They are, left ...
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Advertising Shapes American Life

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: Ed Schumann, owner of Ed Schumann and Associates, and Frank Pellitteri, the production manager at the business, set up an advertising shot for Red Dot Pota...
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Olaf Hanson Invents City Chicken Mold

Date: 02 27 1956
Description: Olaf Hanson, operator of a meat counter, displays his invention: a plastic mold to assemble city chicken on wood skewers.
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"Home Improvement Year" Declaration

Date: 04 12 1956
Description: Madison mayor-elect Ivan Nestingen signs a proclamation announcing 1956 as "Home Improvement Year" as Marvin Reimann, Duane Bowman, and J. Jesse Hyman are ...
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East Side Business Men's Association Bowling Banquet

Date: 05 10 1956
Description: Captains of teams that won first and second half titles in the association's two ten-pin leagues stage a tug of war for one of the red jersey caps that are...
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Putting Goodrich Tire Sticker On Police Car

Date: 06 11 1956
Description: Two men look on as a third man crouches to apply a Goodrich Tire sticker to the back of a (Ford) police car. One of the men looking on is wearing a police ...
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Theta Sigman Phi National Convention

Date: 06 26 1956
Description: Richard W. Vesey of 1310 Jewel Court, editorial staff member and photographer of The "Wisconsin State Journal", is one of the featured speakers at the 24th...
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Driver Education at East High School

Date: 06 18 1956
Description: Twelve men are posing in front of over twenty similar automobiles parked in two neat lines on pavement in back of East High School. The men are auto dealer...
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Carl G. Mayer

Date: 08 30 1956
Description: Carl G. Mayer, vice-president of advertising at Oscar Mayer and Company, serves the 1956 Red Feather United Givers Campaign.

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