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Counting Pennies at the Bank

Date: 11 09 1955
Description: A banker pours 12,320 pennies into a change maker. The man had saved the coins for over four years.
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Switchboard Operator

Date: 01 23 1958
Description: Female telephone switchboard operator at work.
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Office Work

Date: 1950
Description: Women office workers file and take phone calls in a busy shared work space.
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Stemp Typewriter Company

Date: 08 28 1956
Description: Stemp Typewriter Company, located at 528 State Street, featuring the entire front view of the building, including sign "Stemps Adding Machines, expert repa...
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Sheaffer Pen and Pencil Sets

Date: 09 27 1950
Description: Display window at Rowley & Schlimgen, 540 State Street, featuring Sheaffer's pen and pencil sets "for school days and career years" and a model trail layou...
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Rowley & Schlimgen Display Window

Date: 09 20 1950
Description: Display window at Rowley & Schlimgen, 540 State Street, featuring Sheaffer's pen and pencil sets "for school days and career years" and a model train layou...
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Smead's Expanding Products in Badger Office Supplies Window

Date: 08 16 1954
Description: Badger Office Supplies, 120 West Mifflin Street, featuring a window display of Smead's files: "A file for every purpose."
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Smead's Products in Badger Office Supplies Window

Date: 08 16 1954
Description: Badger Office Supplies, 120 West Mifflin Street, featuring a window display of Smead's files "A file for every purpose."
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Esterbrook Fountain Pen Window Display

Date: 08 20 1954
Description: Badger Office Supplies, 120 West Mifflin Street, window display featuring Esterbrook fountain pens.
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Bill Goff, Inc., Window Display

Date: 08 31 1954
Description: Bill Goff, Inc., office equipment and supplies, rear entrance, 115 East Main Street, featuring office furniture and a poster, "Follow the Green Bay Packers...
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Bill Goff, Inc. Storefront

Date: 09 27 1954
Description: Bill Goff, Inc., office equipment and supplies, rear entrance 115 West Main Street, night view of modern exterior and show window featuring office furnitur...
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Office Workers at Tractor Works

Date: 1950
Description: Interior view of an office at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Gisholt Employees Donate to Good Neighbor Fund

Date: 09 16 1950
Description: Caroline Genske, an office worker at Gisholt Machine Company, starts the process of check writing for the nearly one hundred percent participation of the c...
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Edith Kramer, Secretary

Date: 10 03 1951
Description: Edith Kramer, of 325 West Main Street, sits at a desk in the office. She is the private secretary to Madison Mayor George Forster.
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New Cash Register for the Police Department

Date: 07 03 1952
Description: Police officer Roy Holtzman giving Paul and Mark Hoover their new bicycle licenses. He is sitting at the first cash register to be used by the police depar...
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Softball Player and Bookkeeper

Date: 08 05 1952
Description: The portrait shows "attractive, blue-eyed Mary Cassidy, one of the topnotch players in Madison's feminine softball league." She was employed as a bookkeepe...
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Dutch Reporter

Date: 08 04 1953
Description: Portrait of a young woman seated at a typewriter with cigarettes, glasses case, and ash tray nearby and a Greyhound calendar on the wall. Noted to be a Dut...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 06 1953
Description: Elizabeth Stemp (right), owner of the Stemp Typewriter Company, shows a typewriter to customer Mildred Subey, associated with the Herfurth Insurance Agenc...
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William Dewey with Folding Machine

Date: 11 07 1953
Description: William Dewey of Visual Education Consultants, Inc. operates a folding machine that prepares manuals to accompany news and curriculum filmstrips.
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Madison Vocational and Adult Education School

Date: 01 22 1957
Description: Miss Pauline Zeller of 5304 Groveland Terrace, a physically handicapped polio victim, attends the Vocational School under the sponsorship of the State Reha...

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