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| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Interior of WMAQ Radio Station with Chief Engineer Donald Weller standing. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin family inside their new bomb shelter. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A group of Fond du Lac women sews clothes for a Civil Works Administration project in 1934. The CWA was an emergency program that lasted from November 1933... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An apron-clad woman broiling hamburgers in the kitchen. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Woman baking in a large kitchen with lean-to pantry and a wood-burning stove. The sconces or reflectors on the kerosene lamps intensified the light. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Downer College students working in a laboratory in which a human skeleton, a frog, a bat and stuffed birds are displayed. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Sample tables in the Grain Exchange Room of the Chamber of Commerce Building. The Milwaukee Grain Exchange was a pioneer in grain trading with their develo... |
| Date: | 03 20 1965 |
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| Description: | Several men engaged in a serious card game at the Milwaukee Municipal Social Center, one of several centers devoted to social and recreational programs for... |
| Date: | 03 26 1968 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of prison cooks preparing dinner for inmates. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Women preparing food for an annual Norwegian church supper at the Trinity Lutheran Church. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Classroom full of school children drinking milk at Washington school. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman women's basketball team in the gymnasium of Ladies Hall (now Chadbourne Hall). A man stands in the center holding ... |
| Date: | 01 1924 |
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| Description: | Gerald J. Boileau, assistant district attorney, and George Lippert, district attorney, and three other men, exhibiting slot machines seized during a raid i... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Young children reading at the library. A librarian works near the circulation desk in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Woman demonstrates the features of a well-stocked International Harvester refrigerator. |
| Date: | 09 11 1937 |
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| Description: | A male soda jerk is standing behind the semi-circular counter in the Bancroft Dairy fountain room, with seven customers eating ice cream. |
| Date: | 04 24 1950 |
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| Description: | The Midstate Grocer's Association dinner at Turner Hall. On display in the foreground are Fauerbach Beer, Nehl Soda, Blatz Beer, and Schoep's ice cream. |
| Date: | 10 31 1930 |
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| Description: | View from the stage of a full audience of costumed Halloween party-goers in the auditorium at the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street. |
| Date: | 04 21 1927 |
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| Description: | The projection room in the Orpheum Theatre, with projectors and other equipment ready for movie viewing. |
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