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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor... |
| Date: | 11 03 1934 |
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| Description: | Charles Palmeri, aka Pasquale, in an apron, receives a check from James Lewis, Special Deputy representing the street banking commission, to settle his acc... |
| Date: | 11 08 1943 |
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| Description: | Ralph Timmons, president of Ralph Timmons Advertising Agency, 1. South Pinckney Street, seated at his desk. |
| Date: | 06 15 1932 |
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| Description: | Sol Levitan, Wisconsin State Treasurer, receives $750,000 in tax vouchers from a Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad executive. |
| Date: | 04 03 1947 |
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| Description: | CUNA (Credit Union National Association) Bridge Magazine executive group. There are four men and one woman at a desk looking at materials. |
| Date: | 01 24 1945 |
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| Description: | John L. O'Connor, President, O'Connor Gasoline and Oil Company, 211 South Brearly Street, looking in file drawer. |
| Date: | 03 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Mailman George A. Perkins receiving a purse containing 25 silver dollars from Marshall Browne, publisher of the East Side News, on the 25th anniversary of ... |
| Date: | 03 16 1936 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Ralph W. Page, G.M. [of] Tri-State Ice Cream Co. Taken by Madison Branch House." |
| Date: | 12 30 1935 |
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| Description: | Art Director G.V. Johnson, of International Harvester's Advertising Department in Chicago, sitting at his desk. |
| Date: | 12 30 1935 |
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| Description: | A man sits at a desk and holds a pen in his hand as he looks over promotional paperwork. Caption on photograph reads: "W.L. Nenobuck, Advg. Dept." |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A manager pays a field worker on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Mr. Monroe paying the field workers." |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A line of workers forms in front of a table on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. The workers are waiting to collect their payroll checks... |
| Date: | 08 01 1951 |
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| Description: | A group of nine men, members of the Westside Business Men's Association, standing around a table with advertisements for a "Special Train to Chicago" for a... |
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| Description: | CEO Joe Widmer and Office Manager, Kristine Miescke, go over reports in their office. Widmer's ships cheese to every state in the union. |
| Date: | 03 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Joe Mercedes of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He was the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Tourist Bureau and publisher of at least 23 editions of ... |
| Date: | 11 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Advertising portrait of Ole Olson. He is wearing a uniform and bow tie with emblem patches on his jacket and cap. He is holding a gas hose nozzle and is st... |
| Date: | 02 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Men sitting around a table during a planning session of the Arthur Towell Advertising Agency. From left to right are: James Newhall, art director; Tom Towe... |
| Date: | 02 18 1956 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the nine members longest in standing in the Madison Sears, Roebuck and Company "savings and profit-sharing pension fund." They are, left ... |
| Date: | 02 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Ed Schumann, owner of Ed Schumann and Associates, and Frank Pellitteri, the production manager at the business, set up an advertising shot for Red Dot Pota... |
| Date: | 08 06 1957 |
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| Description: | Robert Simpson (right), wearing a soap box derby helmet, receiving a bank book with a $25 savings account as a prize for 'best sport' due to a cut hand and... |
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