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Air Pollution Inspector

Date: 1975
Description: Color photograph of an air pollution inspector wearing sunglasses is holding his badge near the door emblem on his International Scout II pickup. The truck...
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Homemade Mosquito Duster

Date: 07 27 1944
Description: City of Madison staff demonstrating homemade liquid mosquito sprayer designed by Dr. Bernhard "Dommie" Domogalla, city biochemist. Left to right: LeRoy Joh...
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Madison United States Mail Carriers

Date: 12 07 1944
Description: Fifteen Madison U.S. Mail carriers standing on the front steps of the Madison U.S. Post Office. Lower row left to right: Martin T. Digney, Thomas M. Carey,...
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Camp Pendleton Groundskeeping with International A

Date: 1944
Description: A woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and overalls uses an International Model A tractor to maintain an area of brush at the Camp Pendleton airfield. Tents ar...
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Man Seated on P&O Planter

Date: 1919
Description: Portrait of a man seated on a P&O planter.
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 07 17 1953
Description: Four members of the Madison Parks Department building the ramp on Midvale Avenue for the upcoming Madison Soap Box derby. Left to right: Vie Cramer, Don Ke...
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Confusing City Street Names

Date: 12 31 1964
Description: Harold Thompson, City Traffic Engineering Foreman, with a display of some street signs with look-alike and sound-alike names, a problem for fire and police...
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Walter E. Scott

Date: 1979
Description: Walter Scott (1911-1983) posing in front of the gnarled trunk of a box elder tree at his home, Hickory Hill House. Scott was employed by the Wisconsin Depa...
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Fish Car

Date: 1935
Description: Two men are standing in front of a railroad car on railroad tracks. A blanket is hanging over a line tied to the railing of the car. On the reverse of the ...
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Fish Hatchery

Date: 1935
Description: B.O. Webster, superintendent of fisheries, on the left in an overcoat, and an unidentified man carrying a pail and dipper, on the right, are walking along ...
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Netting Pheasants

Date: 04 1946
Description: A man, probably a game warden, wearing a necktie and woolen jacket is capturing pheasants in a net. There is a chicken wire fence behind the birds. Beyond ...
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Forest Ranger and a Logger

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Description: Two men are standing in a forest wearing hard hats. The man on the left is bracing a foot on a cut logs, near a chainsaw resting on the pile of logs. The m...
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Inspecting Ice Fishing License

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Description: Three men are standing in or near the door to an ice fishing shack. One man is holding a fishing pole, and another man is standing in the open doorway of t...
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Snowmobiler Check

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Description: A warden of the Department of Natural Resources is checking the permit of a man sitting on a snowmobile.
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Pike Lake State Park

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Description: View looking down hill towards a Department of Natural Resources employee standing under a tree which is overlooking Pike Lake State Park. Pike Lake is in ...
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Deer Check Station

Date: 11 1976
Description: At a Department of Natural Resources deer check station, a man is inspecting a buck tied to the top of a trailer. The other man is standing by the truck wa...
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Flambeau River Rapids

Date: 09 1930
Description: View across river towards three men in a canoe negotiating the Cedar Rapids of the Flambeau. Large boulders are along the far shoreline. On the reverse of ...
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Emil Kramer

Date: 09 1940
Description: Conservation Warden Emil Kramer is standing on a float in the American Legion National Convention parade in Boston, Massachusetts. He is wearing waders and...
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Lunchtime for Two Female Office Workers

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? A reporter accompanied two workers from the City-County building to find out. Doris ...
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Air Quality Monitoring

Date: 01 15 1959
Description: Robert Butler, a public health technologist with the city health department, is examining a used filter. He is atop the second floor of the City-County bui...

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