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Highway Dispatcher's Office

Date: 1940
Description: Workers for the American Transportation Company in a highway dispatcher's office.
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U.S.A. National Service Life Insurance Policy

Date: 01 13 1950
Description: A person's hands holding two U.S.A. National Service Life Insurance Policies. About $60,000,000 in GI Insurance dividends will be divided among 347,000 Wis...
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Madison Heart Fund Drive

Date: 01 24 1950
Description: Mrs. Lindley V. (Virginia) Sprague and Mrs. George (Dorothy) Rentschler with the publicity materials they will use at information desks for the Madison Hea...
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Senator Gaylord Nelson and Senator Hubert Humphrey

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Description: Senator Gaylord Nelson and Senator Hubert Humphrey seated at a desk reviewing papers.
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Robert Bloch

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Description: Elevated view of Robert Bloch at the Gus Marx ad agency. Gauer credits Bloch with changing Marx into a real "nut." Bloch was expecting to inherit the agenc...
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Milt Polland at Desk

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Description: Milt Polland wearing eyeglasses and a bow tie sits at a cluttered desk with framed photographs visible on the wall in the background. Gauer worked for Poll...
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Robert Bloch Posing as a Sheriff

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Description: Bloch playing the character part of a candidate for sheriff to illustrate a possible book on political "types."
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Harold Gauer Posing as a Political "Type"

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Description: Gauer as a political player. He is wearing a top hat, holding papers smoking a cigar, and gesturing with his left hand. This photograph was meant to illust...
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Harold Gauer Posing as a Political "Type"

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Description: Gauer as a political player. He is wearing a top hat, holding papers smoking a cigar, and gesturing with his left hand. This photograph was meant to illust...
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Mildred M. Barber

Date: 03 27 1939
Description: Left to right are: Miss Mildred M. Barber, standing, and Miss Helen Thompson and Miss Helen M. Brooks, both sitting.
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Milt Polland on Phone

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Description: A record photograph of Polland when Gauer was working for him during the war.
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University of Wisconsin Registration

Date: 09 14 1967
Description: A group of students register for classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Union Contract Signing

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Description: S. Dillon Foss and L. McDonald of the United Packinghouse Workers of America signing a contract with the Nichols-Foss Packaging Company.
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"Joe Must Go" Petition Signing

Date: 1954
Description: Members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 40 signing a "Joe Must Go" petition to recall Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
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L.C. Bates

Date: 1957
Description: L.C. Bates seated at a desk handling paperwork.
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Oil Progress Week Proclamation Signing

Date: 10 12 1951
Description: Madison mayor George Forster signs the proclamation to observe Oil Progress Week, while Arnold Wake (center), the general chairman for the observance, and ...
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Free Press in Germany

Date: 07 25 1945
Description: Wilhelm Gerst of the "Frankfurter Rundschau," (second from the left) signing the first contract for mail distribution of a newspaper in Germany after World...
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Druggist Office

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Description: A druggist sits at a desk in Havana, Cuba making notes in a ledger. Beside and behind him are bookshelves full of books and other drug related ephemera.
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J.M. Stearns Book & Stationary Store

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Description: Interior of J.M. Stearns Book & Stationary Store. Pens, books, and printing supplies are on display.
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Washington Orthopedic School Girl Scouts

Date: 03 07 1952
Description: Erna Schweppe showing members of her Troop No. 6 at Washington Orthopedic school a proclamation by Governor Walter Kohler recognizing the 40th anniversary ...

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