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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The Opera House at the corner of Washington (now Main) and North Mill Streets. A sign at the back of the building reads: "Printing." A barber pole is in fr... |
| Date: | 11 20 1927 |
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| Description: | At one time known as the "official" state printer, the Democrat Printing Company was located at the corner of Carroll and Doty streets. |
| Date: | 11 04 1943 |
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| Description: | Man in work clothes carrying a folding ladder past a Capitol Cartage truck parked at Straus Printing Company. |
| Date: | 03 01 1928 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Mayer Printing Company, located at 117 South Webster Street. |
| Date: | 03 26 1927 |
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| Description: | East Side Print Shop, 1982 Winnebago Street, publisher of East Side News. The address changed to 2008-2012 Winnebago Street in 1929. The business moved int... |
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| Description: | Messenger printing office on a street lined with elm trees. |
| Date: | 05 21 1935 |
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| Description: | International C-15 truck used by Harvester Press, International Harvester's in-house print shop. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | The Palmyra Enterprise Building. Sign reads: "Printing of All Kinds" and "A Happy Advertising Medium." |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Man seated in the driver's seat of an International Model M truck operated by the University of Chicago Press. The truck is parked outside of a brick build... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The staff of Blied Printing Company posed in front of the building at 117 W. Main Street. Employees listed are James Cawley, Harold Puetz, Mabel Sherman, H... |
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| Description: | Memohead of the Banner Printing Company of Jefferson, Wisconsin, which printed "The Jefferson Banner" newspaper. On the left is a banner hanging from a pos... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Milwaukee Lithographing Company, with a woman in classical dress holding a document in her lap and sitting amidst grass and flowers, a ri... |
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| Description: | Memohead of the Northwestern Lithographing Company of Milwaukee, art lithographers, with a flying winged female figure in flowing robes, holding an artist'... |
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| Description: | Memohead of the Northwestern Lithographing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, art lithographers, publishers, and engravers, with a standing female figure in ... |
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| Description: | Memohead of a newspaper originally published in Stockbridge as the "Union," but known as the "Wisconsin Demokrat" after its editor moved production to Chil... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A poster promoting campaign supplies that could be ordered with a candidate's name printed on it. The items include: cloth signs, posters, window cards, kn... |
| Date: | 01 14 1958 |
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| Description: | Three members of the Madison Area Club of Printing House Craftsmen attend a dinner to observe International Printing Week. They include, from left: Louis B... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street, with City Hall in the background. On the left is a general merchandise store, a bank and other businesses. In the foreground on the ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Mosaic in the central lobby floor of the Wisconsin Historical Society, near the statue "Forward." This is the printer's mark of the Riverside Press. It was... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Mosaic in the central lobby floor of the Wisconsin Historical Society. This is the printer's mark of one the earliest English printers, William Caxton. He ... |
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