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Manchester's Department Store Photo Studio

Date: 11 29 1944
Description: The photo studio department in Manchester's Department Store. A man is assisting a female customer, while female employees do their work.
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Laundress at Madison General Hospital

Date: 02 06 1934
Description: Older woman laundry worker folding items at a table in front of industrial laundry equipment, in the laundry at Madison General Hospital.
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Cooking Turkey

Date: 11 23 1932
Description: Blanche Taylor, dietician at Madison General Hospital, testing turkey in commercial oven in hospital kitchen.
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Joseph & Jerry Ness

Date: 03 19 1945
Description: Joe and Jerry Ness in the office of the Ness Roofing and Supply Co., 2632-34 Milwaukee Street. Mrs. Ness has been associated as a bookkeeper in her husband...
Photograph

Summer Vacation Jobs for Youth

Date: 07 11 1949
Description: Joanne Togstad, a recent graduate of Edgewood High School, stands near the newspaper rack at her University of WIsconsin library summer job.
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 11 1950
Description: Mrs. Minnie R. Whipple sits at a desk in her office as purchasing agent for the board of regents of the state normal schools. She has held many offices in ...
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Wisconsin State Journal Editor Leaving for World Tour

Date: 01 15 1952
Description: Roy L. Matson, editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, boarding a plane to start a 25,000-mile air tour of Europe and the Near East under the sponsorship of...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Schappe Motors Employee

Date: 02 17 1954
Description: Portrait of William "Bill" Zurian, in the car-repair business for 34 years. He has been recognized as a Master Technician after graduating from Chrysler Mo...
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Professional Women in Madison

Date: 01 29 1957
Description: Portrait of Bertha Weisman, Treasurer, Assistant Secretary and Credit Manager of Research Products Corp.
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Career Girls Entertain

Date: 02 15 1957
Description: Jean Ziegler fastens a necklace for Pat Pidcoe in preparation for a dinner party at their apartment at 122 East Gilman Street, Apartment 205.
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Madison Veterans Administration Field Office Director

Date: 01 19 1961
Description: Portrait of Sidney Mockler, head of the Madison field office of the United States Veterans Administration since 1958. This office provides counseling and c...
Magazine or Periodical

Irma Harding's Chief Representative, Miss Mae Houston

Date: 1953
Description: Miss Mae Houston, director of the home economics laboratory at Evansville, sitting at a desk.
Magazine or Periodical

Mrs. Ann Hamman

Date: 1953
Description: Mrs. Ann Hamman at International Harvester's refrigeration works.
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Mary Alyce DeVillez

Date: 1953
Description: Mary Alyce DeVillez in her office at International Harvester's refrigeration works.
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Miss Helen Rogers and Miss Bower

Date: 1953
Description: Miss Helen Rogers and Miss Bower discussing Irma Harding packaging materials.
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Myron Seeman

Date: 04 23 1965
Description: Portrait of Myron Seeman, a child psychologist and coordinator of health services for the Madison schools. The news article consists of Seeman's observati...
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Warren Hicks at Age 100

Date: 10 06 1965
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Warren Hicks taken on the day of his 100th birthday. The article states: "His biggest job began in 1912, when he supervised ...
Photograph

Portrait of Social Worker Helen Hilton

Date: 11 05 1965
Description: Portrait of social worker Helen Hilton, 1919 U.W. graduate, taken upon her retirement from the city welfare department. She had worked more than 40 years a...
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Sid Posing in Darkroom

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Description: Sid standing in a print drying room adjacent to a darkroom (likely at Gisholt). He wears trousers and a tie, and is holding his pipe in his right hand. A p...

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