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Cutting Christmas Trees for Market

Date: 1895
Description: A group of loggers at work in the woods with horses and a team of oxen. The men are cutting down fir trees to eventually be sold at market.
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Roundy Coughlin Receiving a New Car

Date: 12 01 1949
Description: A crowd gathers around Roundy Coughlin, Wisconsin State Journal columnist, as he receives a new car from the Rounders' Club.
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Rennebohms Moving to New Governor's Residence

Date: 12 13 1949
Description: Sixteen employees of the Rennebohm Drug Company carry miscellaneous furnishings from the old executive residence to the new one in Maple Bluff. The "moving...
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Front Street Greeting Card

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Description: Christmas greeting card or postcard with view of Front Street. Business signs read: "First National Bank," "John Wernecke Merchant Tailor," "Moore's," "Sal...
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Billboard Christmas Greeting

Date: 12 19 1958
Description: Employees at the Madison division of the Borden Company arrange for a billboard to deliver Christmas greetings to their general manager, Henry A. Soldwedel...
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal worker, Paul McConnell, loading packages onto his mail truck for delivery. He is handling different sized boxes stacked on the lowered gate of his o...
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Madison Holiday Decorations Lights Installed on Capital Square

Date: 11 23 1957
Description: City workers install holiday decorations and lights on light poles on the corner of South Carroll and W. Main Streets at the Capitol Square. A man is seen ...
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Dennis Bayles, his son-in-law, Le Verne Kirking, and two of the Kirking children, Ann Denise and Duane, trudging through the snow to cut pine branches from...

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