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Filter: Year of 1940-1949
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Two men operating monotype keyboards at International Harvester Press. The paper-punched product later goes through a caster, which makes new type to print... |
| Date: | 11 04 1943 |
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| Description: | Man in work clothes carrying a folding ladder past a Capitol Cartage truck parked at Straus Printing Company. |
| Date: | 11 04 1943 |
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| Description: | Man using collapsible ladder at Strauss Printing Company. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Workers setting type inside the Harvester Press typesetting room. |
| Date: | 06 04 1947 |
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| Description: | Credit Union National Association Bridge magazine, 1342 East Washington Avenue. Slightly elevated view of the offset press room. Workers include fiv... |
| Date: | 06 04 1947 |
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| Description: | Credit Union National Association Bridge magazine, 1342 East Washington Avenue, showing two men with the folding machine. |
| Date: | 06 28 1944 |
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| Description: | John E. "Hickey" Wilkinson sitting in his office at the Democrat Printing Company from which he is retired after fifty years of service. |
| Date: | 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal linotype operator at work. |
| Date: | 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal employees at the make up table assembling the newspaper pages. |
| Date: | 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal employees in the press room with the printing presses. |
| Date: | 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal employees in the mail room bundling newspapers. |
| Date: | 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Two young paper carriers for the Wisconsin State Journal with their news bags. |
| Date: | 01 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Julian Swan at work with a linotype machine. |
| Date: | 01 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Dan Roth and August Knoche in the composing room arranging stories into page forms. |
| Date: | 01 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Sidney Smith, stereotyper, a process in setting up the pages for printing the newspaper. |
| Date: | 02 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Will N. Wells, of the Wells Printing Company, celebrating his eighty-fourth birthday with friends. Left to right: John G. MacFarland, an actor; J.J. McMana... |
| Date: | 12 30 1949 |
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| Description: | Street view of the Madison Newspapers Building, located at the corner of South Carroll Street at West Doty Street. The capitol dome is visible at left and... |
| Date: | 01 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Women casting ballots at the Lithographers' Local #7 Strike vote. The ballot box is on a stage at the front of a large crowded room. |
| Date: | 01 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Lithographers' Local #7 strike vote meeting held in a large auditorium. A man is standing speaking and every seat in the house is filled. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, is perched on a stool watching a typesetter at The Highland Press. He is setting metal type by hand for the we... |
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