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Auto Body Repair

Date: 10 17 1945
Description: An employee of the Royal Body Company, 9-13 North Brooks Street, operating an air hammer to straighten a dented fender of a automobile.
Photograph

Fire at Pyramid Motor Cmpany

Date: 03 02 1950
Description: Portrait of Calvin Beverly, age 40, of 807 Mound Street. Beverly was one of seven employees of the Pyramid Motor Company, located at 434 West Gilman Street...
Photograph

Houdini in Chains

Date: 1922
Description: Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s...
Photograph

Schappe Motors Employee

Date: 02 17 1954
Description: Portrait of Persh Curran, Service Director at Schappe Motors Incorporated, 801 East Washington Avenue.
Photograph

Schappe Motors Employee

Date: 02 17 1954
Description: Portrait of William "Bill" Zurian, in the car-repair business for 34 years. He has been recognized as a Master Technician after graduating from Chrysler Mo...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 615-622

Date: 
Description: An unhappy majority
some of whom voted for frivolous reasons
reflected the north/south split

In their nascent paranoia, they preached their vi...
Photograph

Stanley Boyes, Body Shop Manager and Fair Share Donor

Date: 09 01 1965
Description: Stanley Boyes is shown at his job as Body Shop Manager for Lou Ehlers Buick, Inc. He is featured in an article as an example of a Fair Share donor to the U...

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