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| Date: | 06 29 1946 |
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| Description: | An African American mechanic works on a car up on the rack for servicing at the gas station Meehan Motor Mart, 209 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 10 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Madison Building and Construction Trades workers on the job at the Hoofer Glass Co. take time out to sign their pledge cards for one day's pay to the Madis... |
| Date: | 11 11 1952 |
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| Description: | Franz Haas, sheriff elect, washing the windshield of a car at his Standard Gas Station, 318 South Park Street. |
| Date: | 02 23 1955 |
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| Description: | Two grocery store employees placing Dean's Milk in grocery cart for a woman and her two children. |
| Date: | 02 23 1955 |
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| Description: | A father and two children at the Kroger grocery store check out counter purchase Dean's milk, Red Dot potato chips, Kroger pancake mix, macaroni, and bread... |
| Date: | 01 23 1953 |
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| Description: | A woman purchases a can of Del Monte pineapple from a male clerk at Hi-Lo Supermarket, 2038 Jenifer Street. They are standing in front of a Del Monte "Suns... |
| Date: | 03 18 1944 |
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| Description: | George I. Wallace, signmaker, making signs at his shop at 439 West Main Street. He wrote an editorial column for the newspaper, "A Layman's View of Religio... |
| Date: | 08 16 1944 |
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| Description: | John J. Flad, architect, and John Guy Fowlkes, professor of education at the University of Wisconsin, viewing the exhibit "Modern Architecture for Modern S... |
| Date: | 11 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Madison branch of the Filmite Oil Corporation building (a Trachte metal building), located at 828 East Main Street. Also pictured is W.K. Wilson, warehous... |
| Date: | 01 10 1945 |
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| Description: | Carved wooden combination alarm clock & study desk made by John Muir about 1862, while a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on display in the ... |
| Date: | 05 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Tom Miller, of 1815 Vilas Avenue, a newsboy for the "Wisconsin State Journal," selling an "extra" edition of the newspaper to Sgt. Ralph Jacobson, announci... |
| Date: | 05 22 1945 |
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| Description: | Police Captain, J. Homer Elder, new Chief of Traffic, talking with a citizen at the Traffic Bureau window. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Students listening to Rev. Claude Williams teaching "Religion in Contemporary Society." The blackboard says "Gospel of the Kingdom: The Gospel to the Poor,... |
| Date: | 04 27 1946 |
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| Description: | Roy Riese, parts department manager, shown behind a service counter in the new parts department at Waters Motor Company, 802 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 02 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Shown taking part in the "burning of the mortgage" ceremony Thursday night at the Madison YWCA are (from left to right): Mrs. C.V. La Duke, who formerly wa... |
| Date: | 03 01 1947 |
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| Description: | Red Cross Home Service Department counselor R.W. Gerling is shown giving advice to John F. Foster, a veteran. |
| Date: | 04 07 1947 |
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| Description: | During the national telephone strike, strikers picket in front of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, 16 South Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 06 21 1947 |
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| Description: | Assembly Speaker, Donald McDowell, casting a straw vote for U.S. President. George Greene, editor of Waupun Leader News, supervising the vote. |
| Date: | 11 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Man (Ellis H. Dana?) seated at desk and dictating into a machine, in Wisconsin Council of Churches office, Room 353, Washington Building, 119 East Washingt... |
| Date: | 12 18 1947 |
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| Description: | People with packages lined up at the customer service windows of the Madison post office, 215 Monona Avenue, at Christmas. |
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