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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 09 11 1954 |
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| Description: | The lightest member of the University of Wisconsin football team, halfback Ken Hofer from Wallace, Michigan, weighs-in at 157 pounds. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers in the weighing and sacking room at the McCormick Twine Mill. A scale is standing in the background at right. White sheets are hanging in t... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the meat market. A man wearing a butcher's jacket stands on the porch alongside a platform scale. |
| Date: | 09 1984 |
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| Description: | "Milton Retzlaff showed off some huge red Pontiac potatoes including a monster that weighted in at a whopping 2 1/2 pounds. Milton claims the potatoes are ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a butcher shop, with a male butcher sharpening a knife behind a counter lined with cuts of meat, sausages and a scale. Behind the counter ... |
| Date: | 07 21 1956 |
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| Description: | Alan Strauss stands with his derby car on the scale while Phil Peckham (left) records the weight; the boy and car cannot weigh more than 250 pounds. At rig... |
| Date: | 07 1985 |
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| Description: | "Dr. Greg Langenfeld congratulated Postmaster Paul 'Skip' Trauba when the new Theresa Post Office was opened." |
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