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Visitors Enter Diesel Engine Exhibit Trailer

Date: 05 25 1938
Description: Visitors entering the trailer of International Harvester's touring diesel engine exhibit.
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United States Armed Forces Institute

Date: 12 30 1947
Description: Assembling educational materials for servicemen-students all over the world are the employees of the United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI), headquar...
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Hosiery Workers Skit at Highlander

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Description: Three men are dressed as women, wearing brasseries, and skirts made from newspaper. Part of a hosiery workers workshop skit at Highlander Folk School.
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Empty Stocking Fund Contribution to Lions Club

Date: 12 06 1949
Description: Jean Behling and Bill Doudna of the Wisconsin State Journal staff present a check for $100 to Herman Wagner who is co-chairman of the industrial div...
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European Tour Group

Date: 05 02 1950
Description: Group portrait of young people from the Madison area who will travel together in Europe this summer. Standing, left to right: Helen Olson, Charles Sharpe, ...
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JCC Safety Contest

Date: 04 29 1951
Description: Top prize winners in the JCC safety slogan contest posing with a new bicycle and contest officials. Left to right: Harry Tobias, chairman of the contest; S...
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Officer-Front Face!-Eyes Right!!! Envelope Design

Date: 1860
Description: A rare "risque" (for the time) design. A row of soldiers look away from their officer at a young lady as she lifts her skirts to step over a puddle, exposi...
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Clarion State Normal School

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Description: Interior of a library at Clarion State Normal School, established in 1873. Men and women read at tables and choose books from shelves.
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My Heart is Shaking Only For You

Date: 1945
Description: Valentine's Day card of a soda fountain with two girls seated on stools in front of the counter and a soda jerk behind. Two puppies are on the floor near t...
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Women's Municipal Golf Association Winners

Date: 08 17 1953
Description: Group portrait of season award winners of the Women's Municipal Golf association during their annual dinner.
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U.W. Student Orientation

Date: 09 15 1953
Description: Dressed as Groucho Marx, Al Gay and Karen Christoffersen sell Badger yearbooks during student orientation at the University of Wisconsin. At right is fresh...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 01 14 1954
Description: Nancy Staudenraus, State Journal librarian and assistant Spelling Bee director, looks over 1954 Spelling Bee pamphlets as they come off the press. Ernest P...
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VA Hospital Patients Win Short Story Contest

Date: 02 24 1954
Description: Luida Sanders (right), a "writer's aide" and a state public health educator, presents first and second prizes to two writers and patients at the Madison V...
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Edgewood College Leadership School

Date: 09 10 1954
Description: Reverend Jerome Mersberger (left) and Sister Mary Nona, O.P. (right) meet with Edgewood College students during a three-day leadership school for class off...
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Olson & Veerhusen Contest Winner

Date: 11 13 1957
Description: Mary Lou Clingman receiving her prize, a Hart Schaffner & Marx suit, from W.M. Harris, president of Olson & Veerhusen, for winning first prize in a contest...
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Madison Downtown Rotary Club Scholarshop Awards

Date: 06 03 1959
Description: Walter Renk (right), president of the Madison Downtown Rotary Club presents scholarship awards to five Madison high school seniors. Left to right are: Lee ...
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Class at Agricultural School

Date: 1907
Description: Students read attentively in one of the Winnebago County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy's classrooms. The male students are dressed in dark sui...
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Women's Day at Wisconsin Center

Date: 04 21 1964
Description: Looking on at left is alumna honoree, Isabel Craig, of Janesville, who received the Wisconsin Alumni Assn.'s distinguished service award for outstanding al...
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"Heiroglyph" Sculpture By O.V. Shaffer

Date: 06 09 1965
Description: A man and woman are looking at the "Heiroglyph," a sculpture by O.V. Schaffer, Beloit, in front of the new Madison Public Library, 201 West Mifflin Street....
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Interviewing Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Date: 02 11 2016
Description: Greg Neuman of WKOW-TV sitting in a folding chair interviewing Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz who is sitting next to him...

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