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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Huber traction engine featuring an illustration of farmers using equipment in a field and text which reads: "How ... |
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| Description: | Photograph of Eydie V. Watts, member of the Milwaukee City Civil Service Commssion. Ms. Watts sits at her desk in an office. She is wearing a dress or blou... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The stencil list department of The W.S. Ponton Company. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Arthur Altmeyer, Ellen Woodward and George Bigge in an early meeting of the Social Security Board. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Arthur Altmeyer, Ellen Woodward and George Bigge in an early meeting of the Social Security Board. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Robert M. Ball sitting at his desk, as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance. In 1962, President Kennedy appointed B... |
| Date: | 11 19 1927 |
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| Description: | Young woman sitting at a typewriter, presumably a staff employee, in the office of the Indiana Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Advertisement from catalog featuring an illustration of the Jones Chain Mower, and a man using it in a field with a team of horses. Around the border are i... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Front cover featuring illustrations of wheeled scrapers, drag scrapers, railroad plows and road graders. |
| Date: | 01 19 1962 |
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| Description: | International Cudahy Packing Co. Scout. Original caption reads: "Photograph No. MQ-303-- A New International Scout gets into the act with the Cudahy Cowboy... |
| Date: | 10 02 1961 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin National Guard Second Lieutenant John R. Lonergan's wife Diane sitting behind a desk at what appears to be a bank. Lt. Lonergan was called up for... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Man posed standing in a barber shop. His barbershop tools and equipment are behind him on a shelf under the two mirrors, in a cabinet on the left, and on t... |
| Date: | 05 12 1965 |
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| Description: | Officers of the fund drive for victims of multiple sclerosis are busy making final arrangements for the door-to-door canvas. From left are Ellen Schroeder,... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Irma Harding, a fictitious person. This portrait was painted for International Harvester Company to be used by International... |
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| Description: | Bruce Barton, board chairman of Batton, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (advertising firm) in his office. Behind him is a large illustration of a street scene. T... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | Michael Petyo is shaking hands with a reporter from 12 News, as a camera operator is filming them. Petyo is wearing a suit and a red flower pin. Another ma... |
| Date: | 06 28 1967 |
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| Description: | View across desk towards a man talking on a telephone and writing in a notebook. Caption reads: "Adam Davis, who is an insurance salesman, represents the g... |
| Date: | 12 18 1968 |
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| Description: | A group of men in suits are sitting on folding chairs, looking off-camera. One man is taking notes. Some of the men have briefcases next to their chairs. C... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men sitting at a row of cubicles. Some of the men are talking telephones, and other men are writing on legal pads. Oscar Mayer advertiseme... |
| Date: | 04 23 1954 |
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| Description: | James Roy Miller, photographer for The Capital Times, standing next to a white car advertising "Photography by Edwin Stein, 1417 University Ave." Wi... |
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