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Police Strategy Session

Date: 11 21 1956
Description: Uniformed police officers looking over a laid out map with potential escape routes.
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Submitting Petitions for the Progressive Party

Date: 06 18 1934
Description: Two men and a woman are turning in signature petitions to Secretary of State Theodore Damann to form the Progressive Party.
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Placing Order for First Legal Beer

Date: 03 15 1933
Description: Donald Huseby, office manager of the Fauerbach Brewery, receiving from Herman Lochner, police reporter for the "Capital Times," an order for the first case...
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"Wisconsin State Journal" Office

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Description: Exterior view of the offices of the "Wisconsin State Journal" at 117 East Washington Avenue. Posing in front of the building are David Atwood, John Hawks, ...
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Chronicle Office

Date: 1855
Description: Chronicle newspaper office, the first building on the townsite of Superior, built in 1853 by William C. Howenstine, John T. Morgan, and August Zachau.
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Polk County Press Office

Date: 1890
Description: Exterior stereograph of the Polk County Press Office, with three men standing near the entrance, and three children sitting on the left on the board sidewa...
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Mrs. Augusta Giddings

Date: 05 02 1944
Description: Mrs. Augusta Giddings signs documents, with Mayor Halsey Kreage as a witness, selling her property at the eastern end of the 900 block of East Gorham Stree...
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Man at Desk

Date: 1895
Description: A man, possibly John Forbes, working at a roll-top desk in his office over the old Fire Hall. A dog is sitting on a chair in the lower left. Books on the s...
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WHA Radio Station Program

Date: 01 1948
Description: Dr. Robert West, director of the University of Wisconsin speech clinic, and Martha Heffernen, psychologist, broadcast the WHA radio station "Our Children" ...
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Wisconsin State Journal Former Employee

Date: 02 25 1948
Description: Mrs. Joseph (Betty Pruett) Farrington, former police reporter, recalls work days with Russell B. Pyre, current reporter. She was a police reporter from 191...
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Gathering of Construction Workers

Date: 1969
Description: A group of construction workers gather to listen to a speaker near the office for the Sand Chapter of Mechanical Contractors at the construction site for t...
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Job Applicants at St. Paul Works

Date: 09 19 1941
Description: A group of men and women who have applied for employment at the new St. Paul Works sit around a table. They are being interviewed by representatives of Int...
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Postman Delivering Mail

Date: 04 23 1937
Description: A postman handing an envelope to a woman sitting behind a desk in an office. The woman is wearing a headset, perhaps for a telephone.
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P&H Shop Office

Date: 08 15 1913
Description: Men working at desks at the Pawling & Harnischfeger shop office. A row of windows is on the left, and another building can be seen through an open window.
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Highway Dispatcher's Office

Date: 1940
Description: Workers for the American Transportation Company in a highway dispatcher's office.
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Landaal Brothers Office

Date: 07 16 1937
Description: George J. Landaal sits at a large wooden desk and examines a piece of paper taken from a box in the Landaal Brothers office while Alfred Faller looks on ov...
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War Production Exhibit

Date: 1943
Description: View through storefront window of a woman and a man working in an International Harvester Company war production exhibit at the Labor Recruiting Office. Th...
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Bob Allen in Wisconsin National Guard Uniform

Date: 1922
Description: Journalist Robert S. Allen, center, in military uniform, poses with the staff of the "Wisconsin State Journal". A graduate of the Wisconsin Journalism Scho...
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Canning Demonstration

Date: 1914
Description: A group of men and women surround O.H. Benson as he gives a canning demonstration in the office of County Superintendent Tobin. Canning equipment stands on...
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Women's Suffrage Headquarters

Date: 06 1918
Description: Group of women including Ada James (in checked dress at center) at the suffrage headquarters. A map of Wisconsin is hanging on the wall at right and anothe...

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