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Milwaukee Merchants Group

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Description: Group of men and one woman posing on rocks.
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Linden Hill Grocery Store

Date: 06 19 1938
Description: Linden Hill Grocery Store, 36 South Fair Oaks Avenue. Anton "Tony" Lazarz and his wife Bernice, owners of the store, are sitting on the curb in the foregro...
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Interior of Harry's Food Shop

Date: 01 13 1955
Description: Interior of Harry's Food Shop, 1122 Chandler Street, owned by Harry and Loretta Blodau, with customer Mary Huth with her children. Patricia Huth is sitting...
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Wisconsin Tourism Sign

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Description: Group of resort and hotel owners gathered in front of a Wisconsin tourism sign that reads: "Relax In Wisconsin." There is a building in the background.
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Cudahy Brothers Meeting

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Description: Several people sit at a table as a man talks about figures written on a blackboard under the heading "Cudahy Brothers Co.".
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Merry Christmas From All of Us

Date: 1936
Description: Holiday card for the Bancroft Dairy Company in Madison, Wisconsin. The card is folded so that as you open each panel, you see a new scene. Many different e...
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Group with Bestline Truck

Date: 1972
Description: Elevated view of a group of salesmen and "Cameo Girl" saleswomen from Bestline Incorporated. They are standing in a snow-covered parking lot in front of tw...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 05 1953
Description: Depicting Florence Nightingale at the time of the Crimean war of 1853, a costumed Marie Timlin tends to "wounded soldier" Harold Hermanson. The enactment i...
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Badger Spelling Bee Officials

Date: 04 06 1954
Description: W.J. (Bill) Clark, master pronouncer in the Badger Spelling Bee finals, looks over the word list with bee officials Wallace Wikoff, Spelling Bee director, ...
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At the Barrel In

Date: 07 01 1977
Description: Barrel In customers toasted the old owner, Margaret Udovc, and new owner, John Lacher, as the two shook hands.
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Madison Labor Day Queen

Date: 09 06 1954
Description: Mrs. Evelyn Gotzion of 3222 James Street in Madison, Labor Day Queen, shows her ring to Orla Coleman, president of the Madison Federation of Labor. The rin...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 05 1954
Description: Three members of the Madison Business and Professional Women's club employed at the Veterans' Administration hospital are chatting with Gustave Johnson of ...
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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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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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Theta Sigma Phi Banquet

Date: 06 02 1956
Description: Dr. John A. Schindler of Monroe was the speaker at the banquet of the national convention of Theta Sigma Phi at the Hotel Loraine. Shirley Staub, left, was...
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American Business Women's Association Regional Brunch

Date: 07 22 1956
Description: Edith Brandt(?), president of the Wisconsin chapter of the American Business Women's Association, greets a couple at the association's regional brunch at t...
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American Business Women's Association Regional Brunch

Date: 07 22 1956
Description: Madison mayor Ivan Nestingen visits with, left to right: Theresa Lohbauer, Madison; Martha Austin, St. Louis; and Edith Brandt (?), Madison at the regional...
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Roundy's Fun Fund Check

Date: 01 17 1957
Description: Mrs. Edith Goodman, secretary to Joseph (Roundy) Coughlin, looks on as "Roundy" presents a check to James C. Geisler, chairman of Roundy's Fun Fund, to ben...
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National Sales Executives of Madison Party

Date: 01 12 1957
Description: Four guests gathered around a table are: Arletta Duquaine; C.L. Duquaine, past president of the National Sales Executives of Madison; L.E. Dewey; and Mrs. ...
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Gardner Baking Co. Employees' 25-Year Club

Date: 11 29 1957
Description: Louis Gardner (center) stands and chats with Bernie Reese (left) while his wife, Mrs. Gardner (right), gazes up at him. Louis Gardner was chairman of the b...

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