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| 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... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Barnegat Railroad Station. A locomotive is in front of the platform, and children and adults stand near the railroad tracks. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Interior view showing an ice box in a cottage at Nature Lovers Paradise, a resort on Jackson Lake. The doors are open on the ice box, and trays are on the ... |
| 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." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman stand on the customer side of the counters. Phil Hof stands with a large knife behind a tabled covered with meat, while Sam and Herman Ho... |
| Date: | 07 15 1919 |
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| Description: | An unidentified boy stands and watches as a bushel of cherries is weighed on a scale. There are other baskets and covers on the ground. |
| Date: | 09 08 1956 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football player Gene Melvin weighs in at 163 pounds and is the lightest player on the 1956 team. At right is the Wisconsin State... |
| Date: | 09 08 1956 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football player Bob Nelson weighs in at 239 pounds and is the heaviest player on the 1956 team. At right is the Wisconsin State ... |
| Date: | 10 01 1928 |
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| Description: | One man is standing on an IH industrial tractor driver's seat while three other men are loading what appears to be a farm implement onto a trailer. The "In... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | An older man is standing in an office, possibly a weigh station of the Philadelphia Street Department. He is at a bench with papers and various office supp... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a feed warehouse at the railroad yards. There is a truck scale with the word "Chicago" in front of the warehouse. A freight car i... |
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