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| Date: | 09 15 1951 |
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| Description: | A man operates a natural gas fired kiln used to case metal rods from molten metal (?). Molds are visible at the base of the kiln. |
| Date: | 10 16 1951 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a polio resistance exerciser. Dick Murphy, captain of the U.W. boxing team, is shown receiving "treatment" on the machine given by Frank Lam of... |
| Date: | 03 13 1952 |
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| Description: | A masked copy of a lathe manufactured by the Gisholt Machine Company. |
| Date: | 07 30 1952 |
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| Description: | A new, two-color, lithograph press, capable of running off over 7,000 impressions an hour with color perfectly registered, is examined by Walter Larson (le... |
| Date: | 05 27 1953 |
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| Description: | Victor Kelley adjusts his home-made lawnmower sharpener to sharpen a reel-type lawn mower for a neighbor. |
| Date: | 06 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Schoep's Ice Cream Factory, 514 Division St. |
| Date: | 12 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Walter Maas of 4029 Council Crest making hand-made Christmas gifts for wife, Cecelia, and children, Twig and Robin. |
| Date: | 01 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Nancy Staudenraus, State Journal librarian and assistant Spelling Bee director, looks over 1954 Spelling Bee pamphlets as they come off the press. Ernest P... |
| 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 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Knut Torgrimsen, lathe operator at Ohio Chemical & Surgical Equipment Company and a surviving recipient of 30 pints of blood from the Red Cross... |
| Date: | 03 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Eldon Vondra at his job as as engraver at the Varigraph Company, makers of mechanical lettering instruments. Five of the 10 Varigraph employees... |
| Date: | 03 23 1954 |
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| Description: | A food machine from Bridge (Food) Machine Company is demonstrated during the Wisconsin Canners Association Production and Technology Conference regarding p... |
| Date: | 03 14 1937 |
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| Description: | Wells Printing Company's new plant interior. Many pieces of letterpress equipment can be seen; presses and wheeled carts. |
| 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: | Mabel Pope, assistant secretary of the Local 233 Bakers and Confectioner's Union, operates a bread-wrapping machine at the Kroger Bakery, located at 1053 E... |
| Date: | 08 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Mabel Huffman, a leader in labor activities in Madison, folds and binds issues of the "Union Labor News." |
| Date: | 10 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Edwin Koch demonstrates the paper cup making machine he invented as a retirement project. |
| 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: | 01 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison Vocational and Adult Education School provides a new industrial arts program to students at Edgewood High School because there are is no program fo... |
| Date: | 03 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Joy Kelley, home economics teaching assistant in clothing & textiles, does research toward her master's degree. |
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