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Do-nut Queen Advertisement

Date: 10 17 1944
Description: Donut queen posed for advertising campaign. The female model is holding a box of donuts and is sitting on a large clock bearing the slogan: "It's Always Do...
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Group Portrait in the Governor's Office

Date: 12 23 1920
Description: Members of the Department of State in the Governor's office at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Seated, in the middle, is Secretary Fred R. Zimmerman.
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Announcer Del Viney Inside WVLR Studio

Date: 1965
Description: Radio announcer Del Viney on the air inside Wisconsin's Very Live Radio (WVLR) station during the dinner music show. Caption reads: "Dinner Music Show is a...
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Office Baby

Date: 05 19 1965
Description: Mother brings baby to secretarial job.
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Mechanic Punches Time Clock at Service Station

Date: 02 15 1929
Description: Mechanic punching a ticket at a time clock for a service job at one of International Harvester's motor truck branch service stations. A poster warning of t...
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Belmont Spa Tavern

Date: 06 11 1945
Description: Richard and Ione Edwards behind the bar at the Belmont Spa, in the Belmont Hotel, 31 North Pinckney Street, with a clock advertising Calvert liquor.
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Savidusky's Cleaners

Date: 05 14 1937
Description: Clerk and customer at Savidusky's cleaners, located at 113 Monona Avenue.
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Jesse Smith at the Police Desk

Date: 10 12 1931
Description: Jesse Smith is on the job as desk sergeant at the Madison Police Department.
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First National Bank of Edgerton

Date: 04 17 1931
Description: Interior of the First National Bank of Edgerton, with customers and tellers in cages.
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Watchmaker Nick Knechtges

Date: 03 06 1931
Description: Nick Knechtges, watchmaker, at his workbench in his home shop.
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Bank of Wisconsin Tellers

Date: 01 11 1928
Description: Elevated view of teller cages, Bank of Wisconsin, located at 1 West Main Street.
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Kraft Starr Sales & Service

Date: 1942
Description: Two men working in the service shop of Kraft Starr Sales & Service, an International Harvester dealership.
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Hiawatha Locomotive

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Description: The "Chippewa," one of the Milwaukee Road's high speed Hiawatha locomotives at the Union Station. The station clock tower can be seen in the background.
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Orpheum Theatre Projection Booth

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: RCA Artcraft and IPC Simplex Cinemascope projector equipment in projection room with operators, at the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street.
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A.A. Lattimer

Date: 08 11 1944
Description: A.A.L., also known as Alva A. Lattimer, columnist and poet whose poems have appeared on the editorial page of the Wisconsin State Journal, working a...
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Deering Works

Date: 1918
Description: Exterior view of the Fullerton Avenue side of the Deering Works (factory) building. Two cars are parked just inside the factory gate. Before 1902, the buil...
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Core Room at Osborne Works

Date: 1912
Description: Workers in the core room of the "malleable shop" at Osborne Works. Large lamps with white shades are hanging from the tall ceiling over the work tables.
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Swedish Branch Office

Date: 1943
Description: Several children look in the window of an International Harvester branch office at Ingelstavagen 4, Norrkoping, Sweden.
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Madison Dye Works Party

Date: 12 20 1947
Description: Group portrait of men and women at the Madison Dye Works party. Included in the portrait on the left is an accordion player. One man sitting on the floor ...
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WHA Radio Station

Date: 01 1948
Description: Supervising a WHA radio broadcast are Karl Schmidt, dramatic producer, and Ernest Engberg, studio operator. They are sitting at a desk in front of a window...

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