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Werner Clothing Store

Date: 1900
Description: Families gathered outside of Werner's Drugstore on annuity pay day. A sign reads "Medicine sold here" in Ho-Chunk, German, and Norwegian. The Ho-Chunk syll...
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War Bonds for Victory Truck

Date: 03 20 1943
Description: Oscar Mayer Company truck promoting the purchase of war bonds.
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International Payroll Truck

Date: 01 20 1927
Description: Men receiving paychecks from armored trucks parked outdoors at an IH plant. Signs on the trucks read: "Department of Finance, City of New York." A police o...
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Levitan Receives Tax Vouchers

Date: 06 15 1932
Description: Sol Levitan, Wisconsin State Treasurer, receives $750,000 in tax vouchers from a Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad executive.
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City of Madison Bond

Date: 1857
Description: One thousand dollar bond and unclipped coupons issued by the city of Madison in 1857. The bond was illustrated with a railroad train, perhaps to suggest th...
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Payday at Truck

Date: 01 20 1927
Description: A group of men line up for their pay at an armored International Model 63 truck used by the City of New York Department of Finance. The truck is guarded by...
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Smilingest Trio

Date: 03 07 1949
Description: "There are three good reasons for the three beaming smiles shown. Jack Ihde, left, is smiling because he found $176 in cash and $310 in checks, returned th...
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Bulletproof International Automobile

Date: 1940
Description: An International D-30 automobile with a special bulletproof body parked outside the Esquire Theater. Two police officers are standing near the vehicle, and...
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Chevrolet Dealers' Slogan Contest Winner

Date: 11 26 1951
Description: Ralph Hult, president of Hult's Capital Garage, Inc. presents a check to H.A. Habeck who won the Chevrolet Dealers' Association "OK" slogan contest that wa...
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Selling Peaches

Date: 1923
Description: A customer offers payment for fruit to a woman sitting at a small desk inside an orchard shed. Multiple rows of bushel baskets filled with peaches are line...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 79-84

Date: 
Description: A working lifetime minted these good coins – every day
devoted to circulating them through the same routine streets
wore them thin into retirement
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Man at a Parking Meter

Date: 1955
Description: Man inserting a coin in a parking meter.
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Modern Woodman Donation

Date: 07 1995
Description: District Representative Dennis Bogenschneider is pictured presenting a check for $1,139.06 to Chuck Trauba, Theresa Ambulance Service Coordinator from Mode...
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International Harvester Scout: Saving Pennies While it Carries Millions

Date: 06 02 1965
Description: International Harvester Scout. Original caption reads: "Saving Pennies while It Caries Millions. Photograph No. MX-10029-- A David doing work normally rese...
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Men Receiving Paychecks from Armored Trucks

Date: 01 20 1927
Description: Men receiving paychecks from armored trucks parked outdoors at an IH plant. Signs on the trucks read: "Department of Finance, City of New York." A police o...
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Montenegrin Children

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Description: Montenegrin children selling devalued paper money to our soldiers.
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Teenagers Wield Power

Date: 04 12 1957
Description: Larry Bolen, of 1233 Jenifer Street and a senior at East High School, works after school at a local service garage to earn spending money.
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Salute to Newsboys

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Newspaper delivery boy Sidney Bourne, 113 Lathrop Street, collecting money for the delivery subscription of the Wisconsin State Journal from custome...
Poster

Por El Cumplimiento De La Tabla Salarial

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Description: A man, standing with a sack on a scale, and a woman, also holding a sack, are each holding one fist up in the air. The woman's sack reads: "Queremos pan ti...

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