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Harry Dyer and Models

Date: 10 05 1944
Description: Captain Harry Dyer, age 80, admiring his model log raft and steam boat in his basement workshop. For 20 years he was a raft boat mate. He left the river in...
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Automobile Crankshaft Machine at Gisholt Machine Company

Date: 08 20 1947
Description: Display of a 50-ton machine, developed by the Gisholt Machine Company, that will help speed up production of automobile crankshafts. W.A. Smlja, on the lef...
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WHA Radio Station

Date: 01 1948
Description: Robert Wickhen, recording engineer, is cutting a recording at WHA Radio Station.
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Madison Community Chest Budget Committee

Date: 04 05 1949
Description: Portrait of Francis F. Bowman Jr., chair of the 1949 Madison Community Chest budget committee. Mr. Bowman is a mining engineer with the Mesabi-Mineral Asso...
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Verona School Children and Train Engine

Date: 05 06 1949
Description: Thirty-six Verona first and second grade pupils rode the Chicago and North Western train from Verona to Madison, for twenty-two it was a first train ride. ...
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Madison Vocational School Addition Cornerstone

Date: 05 08 1950
Description: The cornerstone for the million-dollar four-story addition to the Madison Vocational School was laid at the corner of North Carroll and West Dayton Streets...
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R.G. Reynoldson, Inventor

Date: 08 05 1950
Description: Mr. R.G. Reynoldson of 150 Lakewood Boulevard is pictured behind the wheel of his car demonstrating his invention, the "aeromatic speed control." Mr. Reyno...
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Retiring City Employees

Date: 09 29 1951
Description: Head table at a dinner honoring two retiring city employees, Tim Harrington, City Engineer and Art Lundholm, electrical engineer. Seated, left to right: Ti...
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William F. Steuber, Jr.

Date: 08 04 1953
Description: Portrait of William F. Steuber, Jr., a highway engineer and author of the novel, "Us, Inc."
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Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: An interior view of the new Wisconsin Diagnostic Center for the intensive study of mentally and emotionally disturbed young people, referred to it by the s...
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Madison Vocational and Adult Education School

Date: 01 22 1957
Description: Two machinist apprentices of the Gisholt Machine Company, Earle G. Brooks of 431 Hawthorne Court and Orval Austin Jr. of 1885 East Main Street, learn how t...
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WIBA Sports Telephones

Date: 05 24 1957
Description: The WIBA automatic telephone system which will give latest baseball scores is tested on first day of operation. Shown testing the phones are Norman Hahn, W...
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Retiring Conductor C.R. Odekirk

Date: 08 30 1957
Description: While standing on the steps of a passenger car, North Western Railway conductor C.R. Odekirk is preparing for his final run on the Dakota 400. He is retiri...
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Hungarian Refugee

Date: 02 23 1957
Description: Louis Paxon, an engineer from Los Angeles working for an aerial survey firm in Dane County and also a Hungarian refugee, welcomes the Hungarian refugee Las...
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Vere Fiedler

Date: 01 21 1959
Description: Portrait of Vere Fiedler, who recently became the new Madison District highway engineer.
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Joseph C. Jones, Highway Engineer

Date: 01 21 1959
Description: Portrait of Joseph C. Jones, retiring Madison District highway engineer.
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State Capitol Building Electrical System

Date: 10 30 1959
Description: Frank E. Nordeen, a state engineering employee, pointing to the main electric switchboard in the State Capitol building basement, while standing next to an...
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Dane County Highway Commissioner

Date: 11 11 1959
Description: Portrait of Dane County highway commissioner, Ray R. Swann.
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Land Survey Corners Marked

Date: 02 02 1960
Description: The Madison Redevelopment Authority joined in the city's program of locating and permanently marking land survey corners in the Madison area. Here they mar...
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Engineers' Day Dinner

Date: 05 06 1960
Description: Group portrait of six men widely known in engineering and industry, who were presented with distinguished service citations by the University of Wisconsin ...

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