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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Three men stand near a trailer while weighing in a load of scrap iron brought from a farm by William Gory (at far right). At left is Jim Barrett, manager o... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | The Elk Mound High School band entertaining farmers as they weigh in loads of scrap at Ausman Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. The... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of men and boys are outdoors weighing metal collected in a wartime scrap drive. In the background is a truck and industrial buildings. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Men baling hay with a hay press inside the open door of a barn. One man is weighing a bale in the foreground. Another well-dressed man appears to be a visi... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a science classroom at Putnam Catholic Academy. Two chalkboards line the walls and stools stand at laboratory tables throughout t... |
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| Description: | The finished cheese curds are weighed and poured into forms to make a 40 pound block of cheese. |
| Date: | 07 20 1952 |
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| Description: | Dick Dummershausen, seated in his racer, is weighed prior to the Madison Soap Box Derby. The official weighmaster is Joe Marx (right) from Toledo Scales Co... |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | Hmong farm family selling vegetables on Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square at Madison's Farmer's Market. |
| Date: | 11 08 1984 |
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| Description: | Students prepare a curried beef dinner in a Waukesha County Technical Institute cooking class led by Juanita Decker (right, in chef's hat). |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of men and young boys are gathered outdoors while weighing bales of cotton on a large hanging scale manufactured by Smith. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men in a residential backyard using a hanging scale to weigh bales of cotton loaded on a wagon pulled by a team of work horses. |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Joy Morrison dresses in costume while working in an old-time drug store at the Wisconsin Historical Society Museum. The pharmaceutical items were used in W... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A butcher holds a knife as he weighs a piece of meat on a hanging scale. A male customer wearing a one-piece work suit and hat waits on the opposite side o... |
| Date: | 01 17 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Oscar Dary at a fish weighing station. |
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| Description: | Two men work at a conveyor belt at a tire production plant. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Irene Steinkopf, a former Milwaukee journalist, shops for sausage in Vienna where her husband had been assigned by the Associated Press. A bit much for two... |
| Date: | 07 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Floyd Klahn (left), Dale Ross, and B.L. Macken stand by a new electronic scale used to weigh Madison Soap Box Derby entries. |
| Date: | 09 11 1954 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football captain Gary Messner steps on the scale as coach Ivan Williamson looks on. |
| Date: | 09 11 1954 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football fullback Alan Ameche stands on a scale and points to his 210-pound weight as coach Ivan Williamson looks on. |
| Date: | 09 11 1954 |
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| Description: | The heaviest member of the University of Wisconsin football team, tackle Jerry Cvengros from Ironwood, Michigan, tips the scale at 261 pounds. |
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