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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal employee, Harry Bunbury, receiving bundles of Christmas cards from inside the letter window at the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue. Bundl...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal workers, John Hoyt (left) clerk in charge, and Sidney Schoyes, station examiner, are handling stamp requisitions for branch offices and drugstores a...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Monitoring the outgoing mail are (left to right): William C. Davis, assistant superintendent, George Gauke, superintendent, and William Vaeble. They are in...
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Gisholt Union Dinner

Date: 11 30 1954
Description: Gisholt employee Union dinner. Sitting at the table are (left to right): Charles Poole, former local union president; James Greene, local union community s...
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Mink "Blue Jeans"

Date: 11 01 1954
Description: A model, and a North Central Airlines stewardess posing at the top of loading stairs leading up to an airliner for Northwest Airlines. The model is posing ...
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YWCA Summer Activities Directors

Date: 06 1955
Description: Two women posing on a dock on Lake Mendota. They are Ruth La Duke (left), acting director of the YWCA's health education department, and Ruth Edie, who was...
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Scenes from a Day with a Hotel Bell Captain

Date: 09 1955
Description: Tony Juisto, bell captain at Hotel Loraine, bending to pick up a pair of suitcases.
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Scenes from a Day with a Hotel Bell Captain

Date: 09 1955
Description: Elevated view of Tony Juisto (left), bell captain at Hotel Loraine, giving instructions to three university students working part-time as bellboys. Standin...
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Scenes from a Day with a Hotel Bell Captain

Date: 09 1955
Description: Bell captain Tony Juisto receiving a rundown of the day's activities from Theodore Hallen, assistant manager of the Hotel Loraine.
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Scenes from a Day with a Hotel Bell Captain

Date: 09 1955
Description: Bell captain of the Loraine Hotel, Tony Juisto, checking out a leaky faucet in a room's bathroom with the hotel engineer Charles Duggin.
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New Store Opens Today

Date: 05 17 1957
Description: Four officials of the new Brookwood Hardware House pose proudly in the their new building which will open today at 2310 University Avenue. Standing around ...
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Madison Newspapers New Photoengraving Lab

Date: 05 21 1957
Description: George H. Beyler, engraving photographer, inspecting a negative on a viewer for the new ultra-modern photoengraving plant at Madison Newspapers.
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Madison Newspapers New Photoengraving Lab

Date: 05 21 1957
Description: Rolland H. Fellers, superintendent of the engraving department, checks over the new Robertson half-tone color camera at Madison Newspapers new photoengravi...
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Roundy with Two Donors from Dump

Date: 12 03 1957
Description: Group portrait of Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin with Mike Ubber and Ben Severson. They delivered $37.50 to "Roundy's Fun Fund." The caption states: "They (Ubber...
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New Volunteer Coordinator

Date: 03 07 1958
Description: Jo Nicholson, the new volunteer coordinator at Mendota State Hospital.
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Activities at the Neighborhood House

Date: 03 11 1958
Description: A favorite activity for the 11- and 12-year-old-girls group at the Neighborhood House at 768 West Washington Avenue is basket weaving. Mrs. Wendall V. Har...
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Governor Vernon W. Thomson Proclaims National Want Ad Week in Wisconsin

Date: 03 12 1958
Description: Governor Vernon W. Thomson proclaims National Want Ad Week in Wisconsin. The week is sponsored by The Association of Newspaper Classified Advertising Manag...
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Labor Woman's Auxiliary Officers

Date: 08 27 1958
Description: Marguerite Yunger posing in a nurses hat at Madison General hospital where she is a staff nurse. She also is president of the women's auxiliary to Typograp...
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Ellsworth O. Jones, Chief of Wisconsin Tax Department Beeverage and Cigarette Tax Division

Date: 12 19 1958
Description: Ellsworth O. Jones becomes the new chief of the Wisconsin Tax Department Beverage and Cigarette Tax Division. He replaces David Prichard who retired.
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Mothers with Careers

Date: 02 02 1959
Description: Beverly Stark, a Madison television personality with two children, is posing with a floral arrangement on a set in front of a television camera. A man is s...

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