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| Date: | 04 29 1946 |
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| Description: | Three miniature models of a youth chair, combination desk-chair (made of wire and a cigarette box) and child sized wheelbarrow, taken for H.M. Wood. |
| Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Booth at the U.S.O. Carnival sponsered by the Milwaukee Road Employees Service Club, featuring games of chance and a model train set-up. |
| Date: | 02 05 1942 |
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| Description: | Model of Doughboy Mills, Inc. and grain elevator. |
| Date: | 07 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Animated display window at Master Furriers, 11 West Main Street, "Madison City of Prosperity," display of miniature storefronts with Madison merchants' sto... |
| Date: | 01 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Children of parents who work at war plants participate in after school recreation program at Marquette School. Shown standing behind a ping-pong table, wit... |
| Date: | 10 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Captain Harry Dyer, age 80, admiring his model log raft and steam boat in his basement workshop. For 20 years he was a raft boat mate. He left the river in... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A man is working on a mechanical cow in the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Julius Friesser, master taxidermist, mounting one of the five cows that occupy the International Harvester Farm exhibit at the Museum of Science and Indust... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Two men are working on a farm scene for the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Craftsmen working on a tree in the model farmyard of the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Two young girls looking at a stuffed or mechanical cow in the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. |
| Date: | 04 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Six scouts, all members of Den 1, Pack 309, of the Lapham School Cub Scouts, with a toy circus displayed in the window of the F.W. Karstens store, 24 North... |
| Date: | 07 08 1945 |
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| Description: | August Carsten, a builder of one of the few roll-away model trains and villages in the country, is shown at the main control of the electric operated model... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Three young men in uniform, most likely boy scouts, standing with a model airplane. The men are being filmed for television at the Iowa State Fair. |
| Date: | 02 08 1949 |
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| Description: | Seven examples of plaster models of animals made by marine recruiting officer Lewis McKerley of Florence County on display at the governor's residence. He ... |
| Date: | 03 22 1949 |
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| Description: | The Blessed Sacrament Parent Teacher Association sponsored a crafts and hobby show. There were 148 pupils participating with a variety of entries. The winn... |
| Date: | 05 27 1949 |
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| Description: | Pat Rohr, 16 North Bassett Street, standing next to her salt and pepper shaker collection at the Washington School Hobby Show. Stan Fix, holding a model ai... |
| Date: | 10 16 1941 |
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| Description: | View of a 1/4 size International Harvester truck rendered in clay on a wood frame. The model was likely made by an industrial designer. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | An exhibit depicting the development of grain harvesting machinery at the Northwestern University Technological Institute. The exhibit includes scale model... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with man sitting in an easy chair in front of a fireplace. He is smoking a pipe and reading a book. There is a model sailing ship on the mantl... |
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