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Newspaper Carrier Robert Goddertz

Date: 09 24 1948
Description: Portrait of Robert Stephen Goddertz, a Wisconsin State Journal newspaper delivery boy, wearing a large delivery bag and extending a newspaper toward...
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How to Become a Wisconsin State JournalCarrier

Date: 09 29 1948
Description: Ronnie Hinrichs is shown looking on as his mother, Mrs. Arthur S. Hinrichs, prepares to sign a contract giving Ronnie permission to become a WSJ carrier bo...
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How to Become a Wisconsin State Journal Newspaperboy

Date: 09 29 1949
Description: Ronnie Hinrichs, a recently hired newspaperboy for the Wisconsin State Journal, receiving his equipment from Howard McCaffery, city circulation mana...
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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, a recently hired newspaperboy for the Wisconsin State Journal, performing the bookkeeping for his account.
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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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Madison Visitor Mrs. C. A. Green

Date: 10 11 1948
Description: Eighty-five-year-old Mrs. C.A. Green, reading the Wisconsin State Journal during a stay with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Glen C. (Flor...
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Anne and Carl Braden in Newsroom

Date: 09 1948
Description: Newsroom of the Louisville Times, where Anne (typing, at the right), and Carl Braden (left), worked as journalists.
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Carriages at the Milwaukee Journal Building

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Description: Heavy touring carriages unload passengers in front of the Milwaukee Journal newspaper building. A crowd is gathered, along with a few musicians and ...
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Man Holding Newspapers

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Description: Man in a suit and hat standing on the street holding a stack of Milwaukee Journal newspapers.
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Hailstones

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Description: Round hailstones piled on a saucer with either grape or cherry tomatoes, or perhaps eggs, placed next to them for size comparison. A newspaper is under the...
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Man Wallpapering

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a young man preparing a piece of wallpaper to be hung. On the ground and under furniture newspapers have been laid to protect the...
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J. Robert Taylor

Date: 10 01 1938
Description: Taylor is relaxing, sitting in a chair tilted back, and smoking his pipe and reading his paper in front of an open heater. A kerchief is covering his head....
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Portrait of J. Robert Taylor

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Description: Self-portrait of the photographer sitting on a table near a wall wearing a hat and holding a newspaper and pipe.
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Jerry Rusk Cartoon

Date: 09 20 1891
Description: Political cartoon from the Washington Post. It refers to the role of Jeremiah M. Rusk, the Secretary of Agriculture from Wisconsin, in negotiating i...
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Thorsten Horton and Myles Horton Reading Newspaper

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Description: Myles Horton, cofounder of Highlander Folk School, smoking a pipe and reading the Nashville Banner newspaper, posing with his son, Thorsten.
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Badger State Banner Building

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Description: Elevated view of building of the Badger State Banner (a local newspaper) and Cooper & Son Printers. A man stands at the entrance of the building. On the si...
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Three All-State Football Players

Date: 11 15 1948
Description: Three Madison high school football players, named to the 1948 Wisconsin All-Star football team. Left to right: Peter Cuilla and Al Trotalli, West High Scho...
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Ellis B. Usher

Date: 1914
Description: Engraved portrait of Ellis B. Usher, editor and prominent Wisconsin Democrat, from the frontispiece of his multi-volume history of Wisconsin.
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Roundy Coughlin and his "Roundy's Fun Club" Parking Meter

Date: 01 05 1949
Description: Roundy Coughlin, Wisconsin State Journal sports reporter, standing with the parking meter he uses to raise money for his "Roundy's Fun Club" for han...

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