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Kleinstueber Machine Shop

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Description: Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F...
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L.C. Smith Typewriter Display

Date: 08 17 1937
Description: One child and seven adults standing in front of L.C. Smith typewriter boxes and covered typewriters stacked up in front of Jones Typewriter - Business Furn...
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L.C. Smith Typewriter Display

Date: 08 17 1937
Description: Semi-trailer truck delivering 200 new 1937 super speed L.C. Smith typewriters to Jones Typewriter — Business Furniture Co., 506 State Street.
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L.C. Smith Typewriter Truck

Date: 08 17 1937
Description: View towards one man standing beside a semi-trailer truck delivering 200 new 1937 super speed L.C. Smith typewriters to Jones Typewriter — Business Furnitu...
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L.C. Smith Typewriter Truck

Date: 08 17 1937
Description: View across street towards a semi-trailer truck delivering 200 new 1937 Super Speed L.C. Smith typewriters. A young boy and three men are standing in the s...
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Stemp Typewriter Company

Date: 08 28 1956
Description: Stemp Typewriter Company, located at 528 State Street, featuring the entire front view of the building, including sign "Stemps Adding Machines, expert repa...
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O.C. Harris

Date: 08 11 1944
Description: O.C. Harris talking on the telephone in the office of his business, which is the O.C. Harris Company, 1217 East Broadway, Dane County's only twenty-four ho...
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Groves-Barnhart Secretarial School

Date: 12 12 1945
Description: Group of five women in class at the Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, 502 State Street at Gilman Street. There is a large window in the background, s...
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Remington Rand Inc. Truck

Date: 1940
Description: International model D-15-M (Metro) truck owned by Davidson Transfer & Storage Co. and operated under lease by Remington Rand, Inc., in Baltimore. A man is ...
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H.H. Bennett and Charles Brainard

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph of Henry Hamilton Bennett working on a camera in a private car. This is the private car the Wisconsin Central Railroad provided for Bennett and...
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Office Interior

Date: 1931
Description: A view of a cluttered office, possibly that of the photographer, with several desks and two typewriters. There is a large model train on a mantle above a s...
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Brown in Africa

Date: 07 1941
Description: This portrait of CBS reporter Cecil Brown, then based in Rome, was taken during his tour of North Africa. It was later used as the cover illustration for h...
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H.H. Bennett and Charles Brainard - Anaglyph

Date: 1889
Description: Stereogaph of Henry Hamilton Bennett working on a camera in a private car. This is the private car the Wisconsin Central Railroad provided for Bennett and ...
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500 Block of State Street

Date: 06 1967
Description: Composite panoramic view of the north side of the 500 block of State Street. Business include: The Towers (student apartments), Pantorium Dry Cleaners, The...
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Underwood Typewriter Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Milwaukee branch of the Underwood Typewriter Company, headquartered in New York. In the center is the image of a typewriter with a red ba...
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Brewington Typewriter Company Truck Decorated for a Parade

Date: 1933
Description: Madison businesses had a parade to encourage customers to shop. This is the Brewington Typewriter Company entry. It says Brewington Typewriter Company on t...
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Stemp Typewriter Company Trucks

Date: 1933
Description: The Stemp Typewriter Company's two red and white service trucks. The company picked up and then delivered typewriters in need of repair. They also delivere...
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Delivery for Stemp Typewriter Company

Date: 1933
Description: Stanley P. Stemp (owner), third from the left, and three employees stand on the sidewalk next to an Ed Klief Transfer Line delivery truck and driver. Behin...
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Delivery for Stemp Typewriter Company

Date: 1933
Description: View from across State Street of men and women standing in front of the Stemp Typewriter Company as deliveries are stacked on the sidewalk. Stanley P. Stem...
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Delivery for Stemp Typewriter Company

Date: 1933
Description: View down the sidewalk of two men standing near a Doran's Tranfer delivery truck next to the Stemp Typewriter Company. One man is standing next to the cab ...

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