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Employees at Pioneer Drugstore Exhibit

Date: 08 25 1936
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Historical Society employees Dawn Young and Ray Lamb who are staffing the museum's historical drugstore exhibit.
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Panoramic View of East Side of Monona Avenue

Date: 03 27 1931
Description: Panoramic elevated view of the east side of Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,) showing Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Co. road construction e...
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Construction Equipment on Display

Date: 01 29 1931
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Foundry and Machine Co. road construction equipment, featuring a new portable rock crushing plant, being displayed at the Wiscon...
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Road Equipment Exhibit

Date: 01 29 1931
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Machine and Foundry road construction equipment, featuring a new portable rock crushing plant, on display at Road Show on Monona...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 04 1948
Description: Three women looking at an exhibit at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week, showing room furnishing revolving around rural paintings. Pictured lef...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 04 1948
Description: Three women looking at an exhibit at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week showing color combinations for clothing and accessories. Pictured left ...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 04 1948
Description: Mothers of young children view display of "New Uses of Familiar Things" at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week. Pictured left to right: Susan Ma...
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Freedom Train

Date: 06 24 1948
Description: Elevated view of the Freedom Train, on the tracks behind the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad station, 644 West Washington Avenue. The Freed...
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Two Women at Entrance to Freedom Train

Date: 06 25 1948
Description: Helen Beckwith, Brodhead, and Mrs. J.L. Specker, pictured standing at the entrance to the Freedom Train, parked on the tracks behind the Chicago, Milwaukee...
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American Dairy Association Display

Date: 11 29 1948
Description: Leaders of the American Dairy Association met at the Loraine Hotel. The ADA was organized in Madison in 1938. Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, is sh...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 01 31 1949
Description: People examining a home economics exhibit at the Farm and Home Week at the University of Wisconsin. From left are Ruth E. Davis, Port Washington; Mrs. Otto...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 01 31 1949
Description: Four ladies observing a woman demonstrating on a sewing machine at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week.
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Madison Sports Car Club

Date: 09 05 1954
Description: Visitors to the Madison Sports Car Club for a "rallye." L.W. Schouppner (left) of Melrose Park, Illinois, and Don Doman of Janesville, are inspecting a Bri...
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Annual Dahlia and Flower Show

Date: 08 31 1956
Description: Lewis W. Amborn holding his trophy for the "Most Perfect Cactus" at the annual Dahlia and Flower Show. David Taylor (right) is holding onto one of his gran...
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The Village Green

Date: 10 09 1956
Description: Three members of the Women's Auxiliary pose beside a Wisconsin Historical Society exhibit of the Village Green. Left to right: Mrs. James H. Wegener, gener...
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The Village Green

Date: 10 09 1956
Description: Display in the French flower and millinery shop, part of The Village Green exhibit at the Wisconsin Historical Society. The display is examined by Leona Fi...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week Exhibits

Date: 02 03 1958
Description: Mrs. Herman Erfurth (Verona), Mrs. Edgar Messer (Beaver Dam), and Mrs. LaVerne Johnson (Verona). There is a mannequin, (in the background) and women are vi...
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U.W. Farm and Home Week Exhibits

Date: 02 03 1958
Description: Farm and Home Week visitors Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Riek (Plain) are challenged to accessorize a basic black dress.
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UW Farm and Home Week Exhibits

Date: 02 03 1958
Description: Mary Jean Stoddard demonstrates the art of weaving at the UW Farm and Home Exhibit. Watching her work (left to right) are: Mrs. Theodore Herwig (North Free...
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U.S. Rubber Company Exhibit

Date: 01 30 1959
Description: Four men and one woman stand behind a table displaying rubber boots. They are each wearing a tall white hat with the words: "I'm A Butter Cook" and an apr...

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