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| Date: | 07 07 1952 |
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| Description: | Harlan W. Kelley of Baraboo, is disabled. He is the Sauk County district attorney, and talks with Cyrus L. Phillips of Milwaukee at the Republican National... |
| Date: | 07 21 1952 |
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| Description: | Senator Gaylord Nelson, Madison chairman of the Wisconsin delegation to the Democratic National Convention stands between two pages — Marilyn Mayer from Il... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Female and male factory workers operating machines in the canvas department at International Harvester's Deering Works. The canvas was likely used for grai... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A woman is holding a metal case as a man is standing and leaning against a desk in what appears to be a medical office or infirmary. The office is most lik... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with an image of a lady wearing a yellow, floor length gown and black comb in her hair. She appears inside of a geometric shape. The backgroun... |
| Date: | 11 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of members of the Farm Equipment Workers Union meeting in a parking lot of the McCormick Works factory located at the corner of Oakley and Bl... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Four "Cameo Girls," saleswomen for the Cameo Retail Division of Bestline Incorporated, using brooms to sweep snow from a pink-colored International Transta... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Rusty Brda of Schiller Park, Illinois (left) and Aileen Baumgardner of Merrillville, Indiana, "Cameo Girl" saleswomen for Bestline Incorporated, carrying B... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Waggoner opening a pressure cooker on a stove in a farmhouse, possibly as part of a home canning process. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Waggoner pushing a button on an electric light switch on the wall in her farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using a foot-pedal sewing machine while working with a piece of fraying fabric. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using an electric sewing machine while sitting at a table with latticed sides. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. J.E. Waggoner passing plaid fabric through a wringer after using an electric washing machine. A washboard is hanging on the wall in the background, an... |
| Date: | 10 1927 |
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| Description: | A woman sitting in a wooden chair while using an electric iron on clothing. A laundry basket is at her feet. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin Building at the Chicago World's Fair (Columbian Exposition). |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of an African American woman posing in front of a wooden bench and a velvet curtained backdrop. She is wearing a long dress emb... |
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| Description: | A page from a scrapbook created by Andrew Webb Jr. when he was a patient at the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium from 1931-1934, with images of An... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Three women standing in a factory cafeteria, probably at the McCormick Reaper Works. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a young woman posing wearing a dress and bonnet in a studio. She is holding two young pigs. The image was likely used by the McCormick Harvesti... |
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