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Construction Site with View of the Wisconsin State Capitol

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Description: A State Office Building construction site, downtown, with a view of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Two men on the right are working with boards on sawhorses....
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Activities of Firemen at the Central Fire Station

Date: 01 20 1954
Description: Harold Hansen (left) and Fred Manthe making chili for the firemen's dinner. Hansen is standing next to the stove stirring a deep pot with one hand, and is ...
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Instructor E.L. Heiser looking on as students Jean Burik, Bob Knoelke, and Delwin Henriksen are preparing a salad in the cooking school at Madison Vocation...
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George Brumder at Work

Date: 05 1878
Description: George Brumder, in a three-piece suit and wearing pince-nez eyeglasses, is sitting in a swivel chair at a roll top desk. His unidentified secretary is sitt...
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Monkeys Escape Vilas Zoo

Date: 08 06 1960
Description: A zookeeper poses with a net and three large box traps. Thirty-eight Rhesus monkeys escaped from the basement of the Vilas zoo monkey house on August 4, 19...
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CUNA Cafeteria Workers Preparing First Meal

Date: 01 30 1960
Description: Friday was moving day for the CUNA Mutual Insurance Society. Moving all that heavy equipment, of course, is enough to give anyone an appetite. So Harry Van...
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Women Workers at Chaney Instruments

Date: 1943
Description: A woman is using a metal rod to handle glass objects on a tray. Caption reads: "Women workers at Chaney Instruments." Another woman in the background is wo...
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Radish Back at Work

Date: 12 1967
Description: A man in work overalls is posing standing along a carpentry table, under a banner that reads: "WELCOME BACK JOHN". Additional signs read: "Welcome JOHN" an...

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