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Child in a Shopping Cart

Date: 01 27 1956
Description: Child in a shopping cart with a frozen Armour smoked ham.
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Buying Paint

Date: 1950
Description: A couple waits at the checkout stand with a shopping cart and cans of Mautz paint and other supplies to purchase.
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Grocery Shopping

Date: 1950
Description: A grocery clerk boxes up purchases as a woman and her young son wait at the checkout counter.
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Self-Service Supermarket

Date: 1953
Description: A cashier checking out a customer's purchases while another customer is filling her grocery cart with items at the D. Kurman company market.
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Harness Racing at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1953
Description: Harness racers are shown in action at the Wisconsin State Fair Park, with an audience watching from the grandstand.
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International R-150 Truck with Van Body

Date: 1953
Description: Color photograph of a man loading cargo into the 12-foot Freuhauf van body of a R-150 International truck.
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Coolant Equipment Corporation

Date: 02 14 1957
Description: Two men moving an oil barrel at Coolant Equipment Corporation.
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Coolant Equipment Corporation

Date: 02 14 1957
Description: A man is clamping a barrel onto a hydraulic barrel lifter at the Coolant Equipment Corporation.
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Research Products Filter Fry

Date: 10 08 1953
Description: Display of Research Products Corporation Filter Fry frying pan covers in a grocery cart.
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Bucky Badger

Date: 12 24 1952
Description: Five foot animated Bucky Badger, sponsored by the Wisconsin Conservation Department to be sent to California for the Rose Bowl Tournament and Rose Parade. ...
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Shoppers in Grocery Store

Date: 02 23 1955
Description: Two grocery store employees placing Dean's Milk in grocery cart for a woman and her two children.
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Betty Hall Puchasing Dean's Milk

Date: 02 23 1955
Description: Betty Hall and her 9 month old son, Wayne, purchasing Dean's milk from Harry Gerson in the Cardinal Super Market, 120 North Fairchild Street.
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Ilena Frerker Shopping at Grocery Store

Date: 02 23 1955
Description: Ilena Fierker and her children, Bobby and Dicky, buying Dean's Milk from Clarence O. Furset, manager of Piggly Wiggly Food Center, 2701 University Avenue.
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Kennedy Home

Date: 1951
Description: The carriage house, which is part of The Kennedy home, 215 North Pinckney Street, as seen from the back of the house proper. It is at the end of a long dr...
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Loading Boxcars at Tractor Works

Date: 1950
Description: A group of men and women load wooden crates onto a boxcar at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory).
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Nelson Dewey Barn

Date: 08 26 1956
Description: Part of a crowd of over 3000 that toured Stonefield, the Historical Society's site at Cassville, during an open house. The building that housed the State ...
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Women Golfers at Nakoma Country Club

Date: 05 17 1950
Description: Women golfers wait to tee off at the Nakoma Country Club. Left to right: Mae McNearney, Adeline Hendrickson, Erminie Linke, Mrs. C.R. Moe.
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Research Products Corporation

Date: 11 24 1950
Description: Three men look at the millionth filter produced by the Research Products Corporation, located at 1015 East Main Street. They are, from left to right: R.E....
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Ike and Smith Children

Date: 1959
Description: President Eisenhower greets the children of reporter Merriman Smith at his farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The photograph is undated, but as Christian He...
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National Food Store in Shorewood Shopping Center

Date: 12 27 1951
Description: A woman shops for meat at the National Food Store in the Shorewood Shopping Center, located at 3244 University Avenue in Shorewood Hills.

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