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Coffee Shop

Date: 05 1960
Description: Two women serving coffee to customers at a coffee shop. Richland Center, Wisconsin.
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Fauerbach Brewery Tavern

Date: 04 07 1933
Description: Slightly elevated view of crowd in the Fauerbach Brewery tavern at 651 Williamson Street, with men and women drinking and toasting and celebrating the end ...
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Reuben Gold Thwaites

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Reuben Gold Thwaites, second Director of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
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Loading an Ambulance

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Description: Medical personnel load a wounded Prussian into an ambulance. Captioned: "A wounded Prussian being loaded in my car for evacuation. He was shot just under h...
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O.N. Falk

Date: 1948
Description: Stoughton druggist, O.N. Falk, sorts the mail with a smile.
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Barman — Joe

Date: 1932
Description: Joe bartending at The Park Grill.
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Barman — Frank

Date: 1932
Description: Drawing of Frank bartending at The J&L.
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Barman — Jack

Date: 1932
Description: Jack bartending at The Place.
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Switchboard Operator

Date: 01 23 1958
Description: Female telephone switchboard operator at work.
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"Apollo No. 1" Steamboat and Passengers

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Description: View of bow of "Apollo No. 1" steamboat with passengers posing near a dock on the shoreline.
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Mailman

Date: 07 11 1981
Description: A male mail carrier taking a break sitting in a mailbox on the sidewalk in a neighborhood.
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Mail Room

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Description: Man sorting envelopes in a mail room near tall stacks of mail.
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Peace Through Victory

Date: 01 19 1968
Description: Protesters, members of the Milwaukee Americans for Freedom, demonstrate against presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy and in favor of the Vietnam war.
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Breakfast Club

Date: 11 12 1987
Description: A waitress serves a group of older Italian-American men in a diner.
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Young Woman Drinking Bottle of Orange Crush

Date: 08 25 1925
Description: Young woman drinking a bottle of Orange Crush soda in front of two International Model S Orange Crush delivery trucks parked along a storefront. A driver l...
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Dr. Joseph Smith

Date: 1913
Description: Dr. Joseph Smith reads at his desk in his office in the Wisconsin Valley Trust Building.
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Get Out the Vote Telephone Drive

Date: 11 05 1958
Description: Women campaign workers call voters to support the Labor Political League and vote for candidates sympathetic to Labor issues.
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Kiddie Camp Display Window

Date: 04 27 1934
Description: Three little girls, members of the Emerson Fresh Air school and the Longfellow Nutrition room, playing with puppies in the Capital Times Kiddie Camp...
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Eight Capitol Scrubwomen

Date: 06 09 1933
Description: Group portrait of eight Wisconsin State Capitol scrubwomen. Left to right: Mrs. Mary DeRenzo, Mrs. Elizabeth Weddig, Miss Mary McCloskey, Mrs. Ingeborg Sid...
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Philip La Follette Reading a Telegram

Date: 11 05 1930
Description: Governor elect Philip La Follette sitting and reading a telegram at La Follette headquarters.

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