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Madison News Agency

Date: 11 10 1943
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.
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Newsstand

Date: 01 21 1939
Description: Newsstand in the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific railway depot, 644 West Washington, displaying soft drinks, tobacco products, and reading materials...
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Herman Straus and Son

Date: 10 13 1937
Description: Herman Straus and son standing in front of printing press at Straus Printing Co., 214 East Washington Avenue.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Wisconsin Argus Advertisement

Date: 1851
Description: Advertisment for the "Wisconsin Argus" newspaper published in Madison, Wisconsin by S.D. Carpenter and H.A. Tenney.
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Lorraine Gray and Frank Gray

Date: 01 11 1945
Description: Lorraine Gray, and her younger brother Frank are reading an RMR "help wanted" advertisement in the "Wisconsin State Journal." The RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-...
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Advertisement for Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute

Date: 06 28 1945
Description: Advertisement, which originally appeared in "The New Masses," June 26, 1945, and was reproduced in the "Wisconsin State Journal," for the Abraham Lincoln S...
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Poster Promoting the Use of Newspaper Advertising

Date: 1935
Description: Poster or display board designed to convince International truck dealers of the value of newspaper advertising. Includes a collage of newspaper banners, ad...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Rat Subterranean News

Date: 06 15 1968
Description: Cover of "Rat Subterranean News," an underground newspaper, featuring Hubert Humphrey dressed as a police officer wearing a gas mask and a tie around his n...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Chicago Seed

Date: 1968
Description: Cover of "The Chicago Seed," an underground newspaper, featuring Santa Claus crucified on a dollar sign. The landscape below is made from collaged advertis...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Ann Arbor Argus

Date: 08 13 1969
Description: Cover for "The Ann Arbor Argus," an underground newspaper, featuring an image of a red-clad super hero fighting a muscular bald man, with a diamond around ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The East Village Other

Date: 03 24 1970
Description: Cover of "The East Village Other," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon bomb on top of a pile of money. The headline reads, "Booming the Economy."...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Madison Bugle-American

Date: 09 16 1970
Description: Cover of "The Madison Bugle-American," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon of a businessman holding a leashed dog, a woman in a lounge dress smok...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Strategic Hamlet

Date: 11 11 1970
Description: Cover of "Strategic Hamlet: An Isla Vista Street Journal," an underground newspaper, featuring a woman as Justice balancing the Bank of America and a group...
Print

Advertisement for "The Times"

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Description: An advertisement for "The Times" from the 1892-1893 Madison City Directory.
Print

Wisconsin State Journal Advertisement

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Description: An advertisement for the Wisconsin State Journal, promoted as "the only Republican paper", from the 1898-1899 Madison City Directory.
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Men Reading Paper Outside Store

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Description: Two men reading a newspaper outside of a storefront. The store's sign, partially obstructed, reads, "Richards[on]'s Flour & Feed[?] Stor[e]. Coca-cola, R...
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The Milwaukee Journal Annex Building

Date: 1925
Description: Awnings stretch over the entrance and windows on the front facade.
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East Water Street and Wisconsin Street

Date: 1890
Description: East Water Street and Wisconsin Street, northwest corner; this is also called the Ludington Block. The Spring Street and Booth Building are in the backgrou...
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How to Become a Wisconsin State Journal Newspaperboy

Date: 09 29 1948
Description: Ronnie Hinrichs, a recently hired newspaperboy for the Wisconsin State Journal, is shown as he delivers the paper to a customer, Mrs. Ida Mealy, and...
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How to Become a Wisconsin State Journal Newspaperboy

Date: 09 29 1948
Description: Ronnie Hinrichs, newspaperboy for the Wisconsin State Journal, presents his savings book to James Allaby, savings teller at the Madison Bank and Tru...

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