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Turkeys in Cooler

Date: 12 07 1944
Description: Goeden Company, 635-637 University Avenue walk-in cooler, with many turkeys hanging on racks.
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Coolerator: The Air Conditioned Refrigerator

Date: 09 03 1943
Description: Oscar Mayer & Company Coolerator display at the West Side Business Men's Harvest Festival. The Oscar Mayer Coolerator Store was located at 401-405 State St...
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Oscar Mayer Coolerator Booth

Date: 09 19 1941
Description: Coolerator refrigerator booth at the East Side Business Men's Association Fall Festival. The Oscar Mayer Coolerator Store was located at 401-405 State Stre...
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Fast Freezer Room

Date: 03 06 1939
Description: Freezer room at 20th Century Market, 1860 East Washington Avenue, with Oscar Mayer's White Clover brand pure lard and other products on the floor and shelv...
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Hefty Sales Company Interior

Date: 05 21 1935
Description: Three Frigidaire refrigerator service men working in the Hefty Sales Co. shop, 210 E. Washington Avenue.
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Nurse in front of Refrigerator

Date: 04 16 1935
Description: A nurse in uniform standing in front of an open refrigerator, checking vials of medicines at the Wisconsin General Hospital.
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Conklin Ice Exhibit

Date: 05 02 1934
Description: Conklin Ice exhibit at Madison Home Show featuring Coolerator icebox, Honeywell Thermochron.
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Oscar Mayer Ice Exhibit

Date: 05 02 1934
Description: Oscar Mayer ice exhibit at Madison Home Show featuring iceboxes, signs: "Ice Made of pure artesian well water," "This will always keep baby's milk pure no ...
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Kelvinator Exhibit, Home Show

Date: 05 06 1934
Description: Four Kelvinator refrigerators and a stove on exhibit at the Home Show.
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Blied-Kay Exhibit

Date: 05 02 1934
Description: Blied-Kay exhibit at the Madison Home Show featuring Gibson refrigerators.
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Oscar Mayer Salesmen

Date: 12 13 1931
Description: Group portrait of Oscar Mayer salesmen taken in front of sides of beef hanging in the cooler.
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Electric Refrigeration Sales Co. Booth at Fall Fest

Date: 09 12 1928
Description: Electric Refrigeration Sales Company booth at East Side Business Men's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival at sugar beet factory, on Sugar Avenue. On displa...
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Smith's Flower Shop Interior

Date: 03 22 1950
Description: Smith's Flower Shop, 121 State Street, with remodeled interior. Floral coolers with cut flowers, sales counter, shelves with vases and other items. George ...
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Rennebohm Food Service Workers

Date: 1979
Description: Two Rennebohm Drug Store, Inc., employees make sandwiches. A large commercial refrigerator is visible in the back of the kitchen area where they are workin...
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Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Joanne Johnson looking at a new style ice tray in a refrigerator with a freezer unit next to it at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East Hi...
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Lake City Bottling Co.

Date: 07 11 1938
Description: A McCormick-Deering eight can cooler on the production floor of the Lake City Bottling Company.
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Lake City Bottling Co.

Date: 07 11 1938
Description: Workers packing bottles (possibly of soda) near a McCormick-Deering 8 can cooler at Lake City Bottling Company.
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Freezing Food at Air Reduction Sales, Co.

Date: 02 14 1964
Description: Robert C. Webster (left), manager of the marketing and foods application division, and E.J. Benson, project manager of immersion freezing, at Air Reduction...
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Biologist at Work

Date: 1938
Description: Superintendent of Biology Edward "Doc" Schneberger, who is wearing a long white coat, is sitting on a stool and looking through a microscope at a small tab...
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Oscar Mayer Cooler Room

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Description: View of a room with rectangular coolers stacked from floor to ceiling. There is a white mixture of greasy and granular contents on the floor between the co...

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