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| Date: | 04 26 1939 |
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| Description: | Women workers operating twine balling machines at International Harvester's McCormick Twine Mill. The twine mill was part of the McCormick Works. The McCor... |
| Date: | 10 29 1937 |
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| Description: | Men and women working in the 5th floor mail room of International Harvester's general office building. |
| Date: | 04 08 1938 |
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| Description: | Four employees behind the meat counter in the North St. Meat Market (Jacobson's), 227 North Street. |
| Date: | 04 08 1938 |
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| Description: | Four employees behind the meat counter in the North Street Market, 227 North Street. |
| Date: | 02 05 1938 |
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| Description: | Side view of Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Weights and Measures Division truck parked in a garage beside measuring device. |
| Date: | 02 26 1936 |
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| Description: | Three men in CUNA (Credit Union National Association) mailing room, Raiffeisen House, located at 142 East Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 08 07 1934 |
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| Description: | Interior of produce warehouse, Kroger Grocery and Baking Company, 634 West Washington Avenue, with sacks of sugar and a large Fairbanks scale. |
| Date: | 08 19 1931 |
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| Description: | A large Grifola frondosus or cabbage mushroom, 10" high and 14" by 28" thick, weighing 36 pounds, being weighed on a Toledo scale, was found growing betwee... |
| Date: | 05 20 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a Toledo Computogram scale on a counter in a Dodgeville store, with the grocer weighing bananas. In the background is a display of merchan... |
| Date: | 05 20 1931 |
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| Description: | View of Anglidle scale in Dodgeville store showing grocer weighing bananas. Merchandise is on display on the counter and on shelves in the background. |
| Date: | 04 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Avenue Food Shop, located at 2427 University Avenue, with stacks of canned goods and a woman employee using a Toledo scale. |
| Date: | 04 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Avenue Food Shop, 2427 University Avenue, with a woman weighing items on an old balance beam scale. |
| Date: | 01 31 1931 |
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| Description: | Toledo scale outside Strand Theatre, 16 E. Mifflin Street. "Your weight free" advertising the movie "Reducing." On the right is a poster for the movie "Pai... |
| Date: | 01 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Lillian Rice (aka Loretta La Boze), 18 of Janesville, in man's clothing with police matron, Pearl Shaughnessy, at the Police Station. Lillian was arrested ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Factory workers pack small metal parts into wooden crates using a conveyor belt and scale at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 05 12 1933 |
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| Description: | Bundles of twine (fibre) piled on hanging scales are weighed at International Harvester's Hamilton Works factory. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A man behind a counter weighs chickens on a countertop scale, and a women in a coat examines chickens on the counter. Some canned items are on a shelf behi... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A man stands in front of a 4 can milk cooler with two milk jars in his hands at the Brauer Bakery. Loaves of bread are on a table with a scale, a cake, an... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Two women and a girl stand near a counter inside a general store as a man shows them a product. A cat and a dog sleep on the floor in the background, and a... |
| 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... |
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