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| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers, mostly female, hanging bundles of sisal on wires on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The plantation was likely run by the International Harvester C... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers processing bundles of sisal in large piles at an International Harvester facility in the Philippines. |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Fred Boyle, clerk at the post office, looks overwhelmed surrounded by a mountain of Christmas parcels to be sorted for shipment overseas to men and women i... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Assembly line packing by the Supreme Model Supply Co., a model airplane company started by Waukesha teenagers in 1940. |
| Date: | 11 10 1943 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the Madison News Agency, 446 West Gilman Street, work room with six workers sorting periodicals. An office is in the background. |
| Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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| Description: | A workman grinds a cylinder head at Nagle-Hart Tractor & Equipment Company, 754 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 07 06 1942 |
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| Description: | Four women assembling light sockets. |
| Date: | 01 28 1947 |
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| Description: | Interior of Four Lakes Cleaners, 612 South Park Street, with work room showing two women pressing clothes, and racks of clean clothes. |
| Date: | 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Workman at Hess Cooperage setting rivets in a barrel hoop. |
| Date: | 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess installing finishing hoops on a barrel at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess using spokeshave on a barrel at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A woman operates a lathe at the Gisholt plant on East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Design in pencil for the Wisconsin Centennial 3 cent stamp featuring a cow's head and an arm holding a hammer. |
| Date: | 09 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Eight high school students taking a few minutes off from their duties at Oscar Mayer and Company. From left: Kenneth Morrow, East High; Edward Wingen, East... |
| Date: | 09 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Three high school students loading a truck at Gardner Baking Company. From left: Edward Witek, Central High, Russell Kundert, Vocation High, and in the bac... |
| Date: | 09 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Two high school students working at the Quality Service Laundry. From left: Bonnie Warren, and Donna Wolfe, both seniors at West High. These students divid... |
| Date: | 02 08 1945 |
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| Description: | An upholsterer at Modern Furniture Shop, 2111-19 Atwood Avenue, restores an antique chaise longue. W.E. Schmidt is the owner of the shop. |
| Date: | 07 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Lewis Flisram, age 79, started working for the Madison Parks Commission in 1897. He worked there until 1911. He left to work for his mother for a period of... |
| Date: | 12 15 1945 |
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| Description: | "Ole" Odegaard, tire repairman at Edwards Tire Company, 506 University Avenue, re-treading tires. |
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