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Orpheum Theatre Lounge & Smoking Room

Date: 04 05 1927
Description: The Lounge & Smoking Room at the Orpheum Theatre, located at 216 State Street.
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Circus Canvasman at Work

Date: 07 14 1897
Description: James Whalen, boss canvasman with the Ringling Brothers circus, at work in a van.
Postcard

Farmworkers Taking a Break

Date: 1913
Description: Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back...
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Jakob Ottesen and Group

Date: 1874
Description: On the left, Jakob Ottesen is holding a long-stemmed pipe, and behind him a ladder is leaning against a tree. At his feet, a large dog is stretched out. Th...
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View of Guard Tent and Guard

Date: 1876
Description: Quite possibly this is the "View of Guard Tent and Guard" listed in the "Centennial Views of the City of Madison, July 4th, 1876. Views of Chicago Light Gu...
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Group Outside of House

Date: 1876
Description: Twenty-eight people and one dog are posed in the yard of a wood frame house. A lap dog is sitting on a chair balanced on top of a fence post. A woman at th...
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CUNA Bridge Magazine, Folding Machine

Date: 06 04 1947
Description: Credit Union National Association Bridge magazine, 1342 East Washington Avenue, showing two men with the folding machine.
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Lunch Counter at Rennebohms

Date: 1979
Description: People drinking coffee and smoking at the lunch counter of the Rennebohm Drug Store #2, 30 West Mifflin Street, then known as the 30 on the Square Building...
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Rennebohm Coffee Break

Date: 1979
Description: Two men enjoy coffee and a cigarette at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. At this time cigarette smoking in Madison restaurants took place i...
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Four Men in a Booth

Date: 1979
Description: Four men in informal attire on their coffee break in an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. They are sitting in a booth identified as a no smokin...
Postcard

Four Men Playing Cards

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four men sitting at a table playing cards, smoking cigarettes and ...
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Governor Walter Goodland Dog Sale

Date: 01 20 1944
Description: An unidentified man, with a cigarette in his mouth, is holding a Collie puppy up for auction at Governor Walter Goodland's dog sale.
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Arthur Vierthaler and his Sons

Date: 06 14 1955
Description: Arthur A. Vierthaler, University of Wisconsin assistant professor of art education, on the lawn of his Fox Bluff home with his four sons: Paul, Kurt, Erich...
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Wendell Willkie, Governor Goodland and Delegates

Date: 03 1944
Description: Republican Presidential candidate Wendell Willkie with Governor Goodland and two of his delegates during Willkie's 1944 campaign.
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Chuck Seals, Artist and Craftsman

Date: 03 22 1944
Description: Charles B. (Chuck) Seals, with pipe, a 25 year-old handicapped shut-in, who is a painter, a sculptor, a student and omnivorous reader, a fisherman, a swimm...
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Governor Walter Goodland

Date: 04 28 1944
Description: Portrait of Wisconsin Governor Walter S. Goodland, seated in a chair, holding a pipe in one hand, and his eyeglasses in the other.
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Governor Kohler and Foreign Dignitaries

Date: 06 1955
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., meeting with a delegation of Latin American newspapermen in his office at the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Politicians Donald McDowell and Arthur Lenroot

Date: 01 10 1945
Description: Assembly Speaker Donald McDowell (R) Soldiers Grove, Crawford County, talking with Arthur A. Lenroot (R) Superior, Douglas County.
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Arthur Towell

Date: 02 20 1945
Description: Arthur Towell, chairman of Dane County 1945 Red Cross war fund campaign. Mr. Towell heads the Arthur Towell Incorporated Advertising Agency.
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Edward S. Cooper

Date: 04 24 1945
Description: Edward S. Cooper, 1811 Jefferson Street, holding playing cards. Mr. Cooper, who is 90 years old, enjoys good health, gardening and playing skat with his fr...

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