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Ed Papke's Retirement

Date: 12 11 1954
Description: Herman Kruse (left) and Ed Papke (right) on the occasion of Papke's retirement. Papke was a founding member of Local 7, Amalgamated Lithographers of Americ...
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Lithographers Drinking Beer After a Union Meeting

Date: 12 11 1954
Description: Members of Local 7, Amalgamated Lithographers of America, relaxing after a union meeting.
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Presenting Door Prize at Lithographers' Dance

Date: 04 23 1955
Description: Presenting an outboard motor door prize at the annual dance of Local 7, Amalgamated Lithographers of America.
"Howie Roth presented the prizes with the ...
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Newspaper Print Shop

Date: 1950
Description: Sports editor and sports reporter from the "Wisconsin State Journal" confer with a printer over trays of lead type.
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Working the Linotype

Date: 1950
Description: A woman types text into a linotype machine.
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Quick Set

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Intern holds letter set and watches Linotype operator at "Mid-County Times" newspaper room.
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 01 14 1954
Description: Nancy Staudenraus, "Wisconsin State Journal" librarian and assistant Spelling Bee director, and Ernest P. Green, day foreman of the press room, looking at ...
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Ethel Anderson, Linotype Operator

Date: 08 31 1955
Description: Ethel Anderson at the linotype machine in the composing room of Madison Newspapers Incorporated.
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University of Wisconsin Dames Club

Date: 11 29 1950
Description: Mrs. George Linn and Mrs. C.L. Dillahunty run off copies of the "Damely News," a monthly newsletter for the Dames Club, a club for wives of University of W...
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New Typographical Union Officers

Date: 03 02 1952
Description: Officers of Local 106, AFL International Typographical Union, were installled at a meeting held in the Madison Labor Temple. Shown left to right, in the fr...
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Wisconsin Dames

Date: 04 10 1952
Description: Mrs. Frank (Eldora) Gulcynski making the cover for the year book for the Wisconsin Dames organization.
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Straus New Color Press

Date: 07 30 1952
Description: A new, two-color, lithograph press, capable of running off over 7,000 impressions an hour with color perfectly registered, is examined by Walter Larson (le...
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Wisconsin State Journal Printing Press Crew

Date: 10 07 1952
Description: Group portrait of the printing press staff in the press room at the Wisconsin State Journal offices.
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 01 14 1954
Description: Nancy Staudenraus, State Journal librarian and assistant Spelling Bee director, looks over 1954 Spelling Bee pamphlets as they come off the press. Ernest P...
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Advertising Shapes American Life

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: Gilbert Stahl, camera man for Brock Engraving Company, adjusts art in the copy holder. Shown is the camera which will shoot the art; negatives are develope...
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Advertising Shapes American Life

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: Elmer Geishert, press operator at Kramer Business Service, examines a job on the Multilith office type offset press. Kramer performs many direct advertiser...
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International Printing Week

Date: 01 14 1958
Description: Four men present at a dinner observing International Printing Week. They include, from left to right: Emil. J. Frautschi, president of the board of directo...
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International Printing Week

Date: 01 14 1958
Description: Lawrence E. Perry (left), and Robert Perry, both of Watertown, and Mark Widen, Madison, look at a poster about Printing Week during a dinner observing Inte...
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International Printing Week

Date: 01 14 1958
Description: Jack Hutchinson (left), Patricia Stroud, Lynn Suhs, and Ward Cowles, head of the graphic arts department at the Vocational School, look at the school's pri...
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International Printing Week

Date: 01 14 1958
Description: Three members of the Madison Area Club of Printing House Craftsmen attend a dinner to observe International Printing Week. They include, from left: Louis B...

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