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Man Reads Magazine to Young Child

Date: 08 1925
Description: Mr. Wolfe sitting in a chair reading Successful Farming magazine to a young child on his lap.
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Morality Poll Results

Date: 08 27 1973
Description: "Christian Herald" editor Kenneth L. Wilson, left, and publisher, Fen Loomer look through some of the over 25,000 pieces of mail with over 160,000 signatur...
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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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Madison News Agency

Date: 11 10 1943
Description: Office interior of the Madison News Agency, 446 West Gilman Street, taken from entrance. Employees are sitting in the room, and in the background a group o...
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Madison News Agency

Date: 11 10 1943
Description: Madison News Agency, 446 West Gilman Street, office interior with room on left showing a man at a desk, and the room on the right showing two women at a de...
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Three Men at Desk

Date: 11 08 1943
Description: Three men are gathered around a desk looking over a copy of The Teller, published by the First National Bank of Wisconsin.
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Madison News Agency Employees

Date: 11 10 1943
Description: Group portrait of employees of the Madison News Agency, distributors of magazines and newspapers, in front of the business at 446 W. Gilman Street.
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Tiedeman Drug Store Show Window

Date: 09 04 1943
Description: Tiedeman Drug Store, 702 University Avenue, display window showing Saturday Evening Post magazine covers with war theme, with a male and a female em...
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Cedric Parker under Hair Dryer

Date: 11 24 1933
Description: Cedric Parker, Capital Times newsman, reads Time magazine while under the hair dryer at Mrs. Wengel's Marinello Shop, 125 State Street. Lucille Bump...
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William Dempster Hoard

Date: 1912
Description: A head and shoulders portrait of William Dempster Hoard (1836-1918).
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Portrait of William Tennant

Date: 1897
Description: Studio portrait of William Tennant in front of a painted backdrop. He was a newspaper and magazine agent in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, who lost both his...
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Portrait of William Tennant Standing

Date: 1913
Description: Portrait of William Tennant, a magazine and newspaper agent from Black River Falls who lost both legs below the knee. Here he is shown with his artificial ...
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CUNA Bridge Magazine Offset Press Room

Date: 06 04 1947
Description: Credit Union National Association Bridge magazine, 1342 East Washington Avenue. Slightly elevated view of the offset press room. Workers include fiv...
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Bee Farmer Reading

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Description: A bee farmer reads America's Bee Journal while sitting next to a number of hives.
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Clayton W. Haswell

Date: 10 26 1946
Description: Clayton W. Haswell, 1610 Jefferson Street, on the steps of the United States Post Office Building, carefully guiding a wash basket filled with unclaimed ma...
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Magazine Rack at a Rennebohms Drugstore

Date: 10 30 1946
Description: Edward C. Crossman, agency supervisor for Curtis Circulation Company, standing in front of a magazine rack at a Rennebohms Drugstore.
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Writers Workshop at Highlander

Date: 1940
Description: A late 1930s early 1940s writers workshop at Highlander run by Leon Wilson. Charlie Ferguson, Editor, Reader's Digest, working with Mrs. Joe Kelly Stockt...
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Silverford's A.I.D. Pharmacy

Date: 1938
Description: A man stands by a cooler with a bottle of Pabst beer in his hand. Bottles and cans of beer are along the wall behind him. On the right is a magazine stand ...
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Man Reading Magazine

Date: 04 23 1937
Description: A man sits in an armchair reading the magazine "Country Gentleman."
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Novak and Laird

Date: 07 1983
Description: Journalist Robert Novak, right, with former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird of Wisconsin at an unidentified formal event. Both men were then involved wit...

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