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| Date: | 11 24 1933 |
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| Description: | Lucille Bump, beauty operator, applying a mudpack to the face of Cedric Parker, Capital Times newsman at Mrs. Wengel's Marinello Shop, 125 State Street. |
| Date: | 11 24 1933 |
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| Description: | Cedric Parker, Capital Times reporter, gets his hair curled with a permanent wave machine attached to his hair, at Mrs. Wengel's Marinello Shop, 125 State ... |
| Date: | 12 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Technicians administer a lie detector test at District Attorney Fred Risser's office to be used in the James Corcoran poisoning case. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Cluttered work space of the librarian responsible for the Historical Society's newspaper collection during the period when the Society occupied rooms in th... |
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| Description: | Workers hand wind filament on transformers at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of el... |
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| Description: | Workers get transformers ready for distribution in the shipping department at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago... |
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| Description: | Speed presses stamp out core laminations for transformers at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and man... |
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| Description: | The general press room is where sheet metal is made into housing for transformers, and fibre and bakelite insulators are formed at Thordarson Electical Man... |
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| Description: | Workers construct a 1,000,000 volt coil at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. |
| Date: | 12 20 1944 |
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| Description: | A mechanic in the service department of Hefty Sales Corporation is preparing to do a complete overhaul of a washing machine. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878), Scottish-American scientist. Widely considered one of the greatest scientists of his genera... |
| Date: | 02 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Electrician feeding cable into the electrical box on the north second floor hallway of th Wisconsin Historical Society. Changes in the library delivery are... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A worker standing at the controls of a generator, most likely in the temporary power house at the Prairie du Sac dam site. The steam driven generator produ... |
| Date: | 07 02 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers pause while installing a maze of conduit for the switchboard in the power house. The construction camp is to the left. |
| Date: | 12 1926 |
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| Description: | International Model S truck parked on a residential street. The truck was operated by the Sievert Electric Company. Text on the side of the truck reads: "S... |
| Date: | 12 07 1948 |
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| Description: | The new Western Union equipment in the Madison office which is connected with an 'electric brain' in Minneapolis, permitting faster transmission of message... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a male grounds keeper operating a horse-drawn mower on the grounds of an estate. A pond with lily pads and a gazebo are in the foreground,... |
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| Description: | A worker on scaffolding installs ceiling tiles and new lights, concealing the plaster coffers in the library lobby of the Wisconsin Historical Society. |
| Date: | 09 19 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers use a crane mounted on a truck to unload a transformer on the loading dock of International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption re... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Factory worker at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works (Truck Engine Works). Original caption states: "Plug in type ammeters prove to be better pro... |
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