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Don's Delivery Service

Date: 08 15 1937
Description: Employees of Don's Delivery Service, Inc. near the main Post Office, with Harley Davidson motorcycles and a closed panel truck. They are parked across the ...
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Rennebohm Drug Store Employees

Date: 06 13 1944
Description: Employees of Rennebohm Drug Store #2, 204 State Street, photographed in front of the store. The majority of the employees are waitresses. War bond posters ...
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American Legion Group in front of Parkway Theatre

Date: 04 20 1934
Description: To acquaint Madison with the horrors of World War I the American Legion was bringing the film "Hell's Holiday" to the Parkway Theater. Left to right: Lane ...
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Boy Scouts with Christmas Seal Posters

Date: 11 25 1933
Description: A group portrait of Boy Scouts and adult leaders armed with tacks, hammers and posters to promote the sale of Christmas Seals.
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Show Girls with American Legion Poppies

Date: 05 20 1932
Description: Group of Fanchon & Marco show girls with baskets of American Legion poppies in front of Karsten's, 22-24 North Carroll Street.
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Olsen & Johnson Promoting their Show

Date: 04 16 1932
Description: Surrounded by onlookers, Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are riding in a wire cage on the back of a "Federal" brand truck. The truck is on the bed of another "F...
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Havana Rumba Orchestra

Date: 06 27 1931
Description: The Rimacs and their Havana Rumba Orchestra standing around a Nash automobile, the Kenosha twin ignition six, Model 990, in front of the Orpheum Theatre, a...
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Havana Rumba Orchestra

Date: 06 27 1931
Description: The Rimacs and their Havana Rumba Orchestra standing around a new Nash automobile, the Kenosha twin ignition six, Model 990, in front of the Orpheum Theatr...
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Fire Station on State Street

Date: 1902
Description: Station #2 of the Madison Fire Department at 125 State Street. Several men in uniform pose in front of the building with a horse-drawn wagon. A sign on the...
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Officer Frank Ingraham with School Children

Date: 04 12 1945
Description: Officer Frank B. Ingraham, at his beat on the corners of State, Henry, and Johnson Streets, with young school children from Holy Redeemer School. Ingraham ...
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V-J Day Celebration

Date: 08 14 1945
Description: Pfc. Arthur Lovinger, passenger in the front seat; Staff Sgt. Robert Hanke, passenger in the back seat; and Staff Sgt. Louis Kaminsky, driving a car. They ...
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Wisconsin Telephone Company Building

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Description: A group of men with a horse-drawn vehicle are standing outside of the Wisconsin Telephone Company Building, located at 16-18 S. Carroll Street.
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Madison Fire Truck and Fire Station

Date: 08 10 1948
Description: Looking south on South Webster Street with the soon to be "retired" pumper fire truck and six fire fighters, parked in front of the Central Fire Station, 1...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Parade

Date: 07 24 1949
Description: Madison Soap Box Derby Parade of Youth with the VFW Drum and Bugle Corps on East Washington Avenue. Club Royal and Blied Printing Company is visible in the...
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Young Women's Christian Association Open House

Date: 09 20 1949
Description: Ardella Nelson of Klemme, Iowa, a member of the Teen and Twenty club, points out something on the screen to Mrs. Florence Benjamin, formerly of Berkeley, C...
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Window Display Contest Winner

Date: 06 12 1952
Description: Robert J. Widmer accepts the keys for a new Nash Rambler that he won for his entry in the window display contest for Lee hats. His display was named the be...
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Forbes-Meagher Music Co. Wins Display Award

Date: 06 17 1952
Description: Forbes-Meagher Music Co., 27 W. Main Street, won a trophy in a nation-wide window display contest. A.C. Cory (right) presenting the trophy to Harold Frye (...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Organizers

Date: 07 18 1952
Description: The thirteen-member behind-the-scenes crew who make the Madison Soap Box Derby possible gathered on the steps of Law Park prior to making final arrangement...
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Blied Printing Company Employees

Date: 1910
Description: The staff of Blied Printing Company posed in front of the building at 117 W. Main Street. Employees listed are James Cawley, Harold Puetz, Mabel Sherman, H...
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Madison Capitol Park Carolers

Date: 12 05 1955
Description: A group of nine children carol at the Nativity crib erected near the Wisconsin State Capitol's State Street entrance by the Madison Deanery Council of Cath...

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