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| Date: | 04 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Stanley Prideaux, worker at the Gisholt Machine Company, who is representing the CIO Dane County Industrial Union council on the 1949 Madison C... |
| Date: | 08 08 1949 |
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| Description: | A ragweed field near the Oscar Mayer and Company plant at 910 Mayer Avenue. When the ragweed blooms, it will cause misery for Madison's hayfever victims. |
| Date: | 08 19 1949 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Canada Dry Bottling Company plant at 3313 University Avenue. |
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| Description: | Two men loading boxes of batteries onto railroad cars with a conveyor belt. French Battery later became Ray-O-Vac Corporation. |
| Date: | 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men in the Corner Section of Analytical at Ray-O-Vac Corporation. |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Oscar Mayer & Co., plant looking northwest. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Oscar G. Mayer, Jr., (left) and another Oscar Mayer & Co. official examine plans for a hog immobilization unit to be constructed at the rear of the company... |
| Date: | 04 1981 |
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| Description: | Ray-o-vac Battery Company building, Winnebago Street at Division Street. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms leans against a car with his arm around his family friend and neighbor John Berry, who he called "Pa Berry". |
| Date: | 01 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William Skaar (known as Bill), the president of the Battery Workers' Federal Union at the Ray-O-Vac Company. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Wienermobile in the Oscar Mayer parking lot. The driver is seated in the cab, but is obscured by the side mirror. Employee cars and other Oscar Mayer vehic... |
| Date: | 02 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Indoor portrait of Stanley Prideaux, president of the Dane County CIO Council and president of Local 1404 United Steel Workers at Gisholt, the second large... |
| Date: | 02 25 1954 |
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| Description: | William Farrell (left), Ida Holman, and Robert George at the opening of Gisholt's sight-safety program. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wisconsin Music Company of Madison, Wisconsin, with two elevated views of the Cable Company's Chicago and St. Charles piano and organ fac... |
| Date: | 08 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Clara L. Anderson of McFarland operates a machine that puts labels on small batteries. She works at Ray-O-Vac and is a leader in Local 19587, Battery Worke... |
| Date: | 08 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Ruby Allman (right), secretary of Local 538 Amalgamated Meat Cutter and Butcher Workmen of North America at Oscar Mayer and Company, signs up Dorothy Braun... |
| Date: | 12 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Two large boilers (?) at the Ohio Chemical and Surgical Equipment Company, 1400 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 05 28 1956 |
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| Description: | Employment of older adults is one of the topics of discussion at the First Governor's Conference on an Aging Population. 76 year old James Jordan works on ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A bird's-eye view illustration of the Northern Electrical Manufacturing Company. The company was founded in 1895 by four Madison businessmen, Conrad M. Con... |
| Date: | 04 29 1958 |
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| Description: | The Dane County Chapter of the Association for Mental Health conducts a survey of Madison area employers to aid them and their employees with mental health... |
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