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Hosiery Workers Skit at Highlander

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Description: Three men are dressed as women, wearing brasseries, and skirts made from newspaper. Part of a hosiery workers workshop skit at Highlander Folk School.
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Court House Concession

Date: 04 22 1948
Description: Lloyd Harmon, from Belleville, who has been blind from birth, standing at the first concession stand to be erected in the Dane County Court House. The disp...
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Man Lighting a Cigar

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Description: Two men smoking cigars, one in the process of lighting his while reading a newspaper, possibly the "Union Farmer".
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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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Family Reading the "Union Farmer"

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Description: A family reading the newspaper "Union Farmer" together.
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Lake Nebagamon School Students

Date: 06 08 1948
Description: Group portrait of student members of grades five through eight of Lake Nebagamon village school, Douglas County. The students are pictured as they visited ...
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The Hortons and The Brownes

Date: 1963
Description: Staff meeting at Highlander Center in Knoxville, left to right: Aimee Horton, Myles Horton, Conrad Browne, Ora Browne. Conrad is reading "The Carolina Isr...
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Roy Matson and Rex Karney, Wisconsin State Journal Staff

Date: 06 17 1948
Description: Roy Matson, Editor, and Rex Karney, political writer, both of the Wisconsin State Journal, pictured in Matson's office prior to their leaving to att...
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 07 10 1948
Description: Group portrait of eight veteran Soap Box Derby racers who will be making their second or third attempts to win the city championship. They are shown liste...
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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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The Milwaukee Journal Building Exterior

Date: 1926
Description: Building completed about 1926-27. Corner view with parked cars lining the street. A flag is flying from the roof. A decorative band of a classical relief l...
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The Milwaukee Journal Building

Date: 1931
Description: The newspaper used this building from 1907 until the mid or late 1920's. A few cars are parked in front of the building. A sign for the Good Fellow House (...
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The Montgomery Building

Date: 1924
Description: Former home of the Milwaukee Journal newspaper, at the corner of Michigan and Milwaukee Streets. A fire escape goes up the middle of the building on...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Painesville Memorial Chapel

Date: 07 20 1942
Description: Newspaper clipping giving information about the chapel. Above the article is a photograph of a meeting in progress.
Photograph

Hildur Hanson

Date: 08 1948
Description: Hildur Hanson, secretary to Wisconsin State Journal Editor Roy Matson, standing in front of the door to his office.
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Dorothy French

Date: 08 02 1948
Description: Mrs. Louis N. (Dorothy) French, new women's editor for the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Bertha Rupp

Date: 09 02 1948
Description: Mrs. J. Harold (Bertha) Rupp, retiring assistant society editor and women's page editor for the Wisconsin State Journal.
Print

Sentinel Building

Date: 1843
Description: Exterior of two-story wood building at the corner of Wisconsin and Water Streets. The first floor consists of businesses run by Dewey, Highby & Wardner, a...
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Shorewood Hills Community League

Date: 09 21 1948
Description: Mrs. Lester W. (Dorothy) Paul, 3220 Topping Road, at left, and Mrs. Lloyd W. (Mildred) Coleman, 1123 Oak Way, at right, perusing the birth column in the
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Governor Rennebohm with Four Newspaperboys

Date: 09 25 1948
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm signing a proclamation for Newspaperboy Day. Observing the signing ceremony are four newspaper boys. From left to right are: Ken ...

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