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William Sachtjen

Date: 1940
Description: Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery...
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Durfee Brothers Roofing Company Burglary

Date: 10 30 1948
Description: John Ochalle, employee of the Durfee Brothers Roofing Company, who discovered evidence of a burglary at the company's place of business at 1804 South Park ...
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Durfee Brothers Roofing Company Burglary

Date: 10 30 1948
Description: View of window from indoors that burglars pried open at the Durfee Brothers Roofing Company office to enter during a robbery. A 500 pound safe was removed ...
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Artist Byron C. Jorns with Painting

Date: 11 15 1948
Description: Byron C. Jorns hanging a watercolor painting for an exhibit at the Madison Bank and Trust Company. A series of exhibitions was arranged by the bank to enco...
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University of Wisconsin Foundation Centennial Campaign Dinner

Date: 11 15 1948
Description: People at the speakers' table at the dinner marking the start of the University of Wisconsin's foundation's centennial campaign. From left are Herbert V. K...
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Yule Collections

Date: 12 23 1948
Description: Dorothy Blank receiving donated money for the Empty Stocking Club from newspaper carrier boy Gordon Schaaf in front of a Christmas tree.
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Roundy Coughlin and Bernard Gill

Date: 01 14 1949
Description: Roundy Coughlin, right, turning over to Bernard Gill, secretary of Roundy's Fun Fund, a check for $4,000.25. This money is used for the handicapped childre...
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"Wisconsin State Journal" Staff

Date: 01 28 1949
Description: The Advertising Department of the "Wisconsin State Journal" has artists, copy writers, and technical experts to "help you shop."
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Charity Contribution Container in Sheriff's Office

Date: 02 04 1949
Description: Sheriff Herman P. Kerl, and Sally Penfield, with the four-gallon glass bottle for collecting donations to the "State Journal" Empty Stocking club, the Kidd...
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Mailman George A. Perkins

Date: 03 10 1949
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 ...
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Bing Moy at Steam Press

Date: 07 01 1949
Description: Bing Moy presses shirts at the steam press at Moy's Laundry, 112 N. Pinckney Street.
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Madison Newspapers, Inc.

Date: 08 06 1949
Description: Workmen move into the new advertising offices for Madison Newspapers, Inc. The section is part of a new addition to the Wisconsin State Journal building, 1...
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Veterans Applying for Insurance Dividend

Date: 08 29 1949
Description: A group of veterans applies for insurance dividends at a table at the Veterans Administration office. Left to right are: Rolf N. Olsen, Madison; Ralph Coop...
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Wishing Well in Capitol Theatre

Date: 11 29 1949
Description: Robert Hoffman dropping coins into the wishing well at the Capitol Theatre for the Empty Stocking Club and the Kiddie Camp fund to "Help Bring Happiness to...
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Teller's Window at a Savings and Loan Bank

Date: 01 13 1950
Description: A bank employee at the teller's window in an unidentified savings and loan bank accepts a deposit from a customer (only the hand of a man wearing a hat is ...
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Madison Kipp Lubricators

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Description: A magazine advertisement for Madison Kipp lubricators featuring a man operating a La Crosse Happy Farmer tractor with a three bottom plow.
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Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumni Style Show

Date: 04 03 1950
Description: Mrs. Stephen E. (Kathryn) Gavin of 2811 Monroe Street, chairman of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae benefit dessert bridge party and style show, sitting at ri...
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Bank of Madison Board of Directors

Date: 05 04 1950
Description: Lucille Colt, a bank clerk and member of the WAC medical corps in World War II, presents an inscribed gavel to Harrison L. Garner, a board member who was r...
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Income Tax Returns

Date: 08 11 1950
Description: William T. Evjue's, editor of "The Capital Times Newspaper," 1949 income tax return. Article published in the Wisconsin State Journal with headline "In Fiv...
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Gisholt Employees Donate to Good Neighbor Fund

Date: 09 16 1950
Description: Caroline Genske, an office worker at Gisholt Machine Company, starts the process of check writing for the nearly one hundred percent participation of the c...

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