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Carson Gulley with Pies

Date: 05 14 1953
Description: Chef Carson Gulley holding two pies and standing in front of a rack of fudge bottom pies. He is posing for a WMTV ad for his cooking show to be broadcast ...
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Sinaiko Brothers Filling Station Employee

Date: 06 17 1953
Description: Man standing in the interior of the Sinaiko Brothers Filling Station, 760 Regent Street. Good view of a service station restroom in the background with the...
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WKOW-TV Telethon

Date: 09 12 1953
Description: Fourteen men and women (one in a wheelchair) sitting around a dining table in a restaurant (Hoffman House?) as part of the WKOW-TV telethon (?).
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Weather Bureau Operation at Truax Field Control Tower

Date: 12 22 1953
Description: Harold Evans launching a weather balloon from the pilot balloon shelter on top of the Truax Field control tower.
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal worker, Ray Kindschi, is pushing a load of packages on a cart at the Williamson Street warehouse for the United States Post Office. He is usually a ...
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Activities of Firemen at the Central Fire Station

Date: 01 20 1954
Description: Captain Arne Lewick doubles as the fire station mechanic. Smoking a pipe, he is working at a lathe.
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Sears Roebuck Store Construction

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Architect's representative Rod Lindwall checking over plans at the new Sears Roebuck store under construction on East Washington Avenue. He is using what a...
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Sears Roebuck Store Construction

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Checking over blueprint plan details at the new Sears Roebuck store under construction on East Washington Avenue are Cy Perkins, George Lehmann, and Robert...
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Instructor E.L. Heiser looking on as students Jean Burik, Bob Knoelke, and Delwin Henriksen are preparing a salad in the cooking school at Madison Vocation...
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Nurse Marie Holt adjusting the new X-ray machine over a patient lying on the table, while Selma Haase, in the right foreground, is waiting to take a pictur...
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Milwaukee Braves Branch Ticket Office

Date: 03 01 1954
Description: Mrs. Paul Hilgers of Middleton selling tickets for Milwaukee Braves baseball games at the branch ticket office in the basement of The Hub clothing store in...
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Milwaukee Braves Branch Ticket Office

Date: 03 01 1954
Description: View looking down at a line of men and women waiting to buy tickets to Milwaukee Braves baseball games at the branch ticket office located in the basement ...
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Isabel La Follette and Deborah Sherman

Date: 02 18 1954
Description: Isabel La Follette (right) and probably Deborah Sherman, are discussing the Woman's Service Exchange, which Mrs. La Follette started at the Madison Vocatio...
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You Can't Keep Veterinarian Down on Farm

Date: 05 19 1954
Description: Veterinarian Dr. R.H. Romaker taking a call from one of his clients.
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You Can't Keep Veterinarian Down on Farm

Date: 05 19 1954
Description: Farmer George Stenjen (right) helping veterinarian Dr. R.H. Romaker (left) coax a calf into a stanchion for a brucellosis vaccination.
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Traditional Swiss Cheese Production at the West Middleton Cheese Cooperative

Date: 06 03 1954
Description: Cheese makers Alfred Abplanalp (right) and Bernard Cupp perform the old-time Swiss cheese making method of using cheese cloth to skim the curd from the top...
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Traditional Swiss Cheese Production at the West Middleton Cheese Cooperative

Date: 06 03 1954
Description: Cheese makers Bernard Cupp (right) and Alfred Abplanalp (left) completing the process of skimming curd from a vault of whey by lifting the cheese cloth bag...
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New Pines Restaurant

Date: 07 28 1954
Description: Two African American cooks standing by a stone hearth in the kitchen at the New Pines restaurant located at 2413 Parmenter Street. One of the cooks might ...
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Congressman Glenn Davis Holds Office Hours in Madison

Date: 08 23 1954
Description: Congressman Glenn Davis (R-Waukesha) chats with constituent Ervin Cady who is balancing his brimmed hat on one knee while lighting up a cigar.
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Newspaper Carriers Leave for Washington D.C.

Date: 08 16 1954
Description: Madison Newspapers, Inc. newsboy, Fred Ciebell (from Edgerton) waving goodbye from a window to his parents, Wes and Elaine Ciebell, and brother. Fred is in...

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