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University of Wisconsin Textile Testing

Date: 04 01 1948
Description: Margaret Cooper, Associate Professor of Home Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and director of the textile laboratory, testing the bursting...
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University of Wisconsin Textile Testing

Date: 04 01 1948
Description: Arliss Otto, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from Menominee Falls, testing a sample of fabric for fading at a laboratory fadeometer.
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Blessed Martin House

Date: 04 22 1948
Description: Four women sewing a 'sleeping garment' at the Blessed Martin House, 746 West Washington Avenue, an interracial and interfaith center sponsored by Madison C...
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Lake Weed Cutter

Date: 08 12 1948
Description: W.J. Rendall, Earl. E. Wheeler, and George C. Hockney operating a small weed cutter in Lake Mendota off the shore of Maple Bluff. Mr. Hockney is the manufa...
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"Wisconsin State Journal" Staff Member

Date: 01 28 1949
Description: In the newsroom of the "Wisconsin State Journal," an employee with the newly acquired Associated Press wire photo sending and receiving machine.
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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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"Wisconsin State Journal" Staff Member

Date: 01 28 1949
Description: Carol Patterson compiles the mercantile and stock market sections of the "Wisconsin State Journal".
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"Wisconsin State Journal" Staff Member

Date: 01 28 1949
Description: Julian Swan at work with a linotype machine.
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"Wisconsin State Journal" Staff Member

Date: 01 28 1949
Description: Sidney Smith, stereotyper, a process in setting up the pages for printing the newspaper.
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Destruction of Illegal Slot Machines

Date: 02 19 1949
Description: Madison Police Inspector Philip H. Oakey is shown demolishing three "one-armed bandits." They had been stored in the vault of police headquarters since the...
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Madison Community Chest Budget Committee

Date: 04 05 1949
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...
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Bing Moy at Steam Press

Date: 07 01 1949
Description: Bing Moy presses shirts at the steam press at Moy's Laundry, 112 N. Pinckney Street.
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Madison Newspapers, Inc.

Date: 08 06 1949
Description: Three men move a Capital Times linotype machine into the new addition to the Wisconsin State Journal building, 115 South Carroll Street. The combined struc...
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Canada Dry Bottling Company Plant

Date: 08 19 1949
Description: Slightly elevated view of the interior of the Canada Dry Bottling Company plant at 3313 University Avenue, showing the bottling line. One person is standin...
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League of Women Voters

Date: 02 20 1950
Description: Mrs. Robert J. (Joan) Francis of 833 Miami Pass, member of League of Women Voters, listens to City Clerk A.W. Bareis as he explains how to use a voting mac...
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League of Women's Voters

Date: 02 20 1950
Description: League of Women Voters member Mrs. Frederick (Priscilla) Greeky interviews Leon A. Smith, superintendent of Madison's Water Department, as part of the leag...
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Gisholt Employees Donate to Good Neighbor Fund

Date: 09 16 1950
Description: George H. Johnson (left), Gisholt Machine Company president, and Stanley Prideaux (center), president of the United Steelworkers of America, congratulate F...
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Pharmacy School Open House

Date: 10 26 1950
Description: Pharmacy student Mohit Gubta works at a spray drier during the University of Wisconsin pharmacy school open house.
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University of Wisconsin Dames Club

Date: 11 29 1950
Description: Mrs. George Linn and Mrs. C.L. Dillahunty run off copies of the "Damely News," a monthly newsletter for the Dames Club, a club for wives of University of W...
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Mullarky's Spic and Span Inc. Dry Cleaners

Date: 03 08 1951
Description: An employee stands beside the new cleaning machine at Mullarky's Spic and Span Inc. dry cleaners, 3322 University Avenue.

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