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| Date: | 11 08 1984 |
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| Description: | Students prepare a curried beef dinner in a Waukesha County Technical Institute cooking class led by Juanita Decker (right, in chef's hat). |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of men and young boys are gathered outdoors while weighing bales of cotton on a large hanging scale manufactured by Smith. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A butcher holds a knife as he weighs a piece of meat on a hanging scale. A male customer wearing a one-piece work suit and hat waits on the opposite side o... |
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| Description: | Two men work at a conveyor belt at a tire production plant. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Irene Steinkopf, a former Milwaukee journalist, shops for sausage in Vienna where her husband had been assigned by the Associated Press. A bit much for two... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers in the weighing and sacking room at the McCormick Twine Mill. A scale is standing in the background at right. White sheets are hanging in t... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the meat market. A man wearing a butcher's jacket stands on the porch alongside a platform scale. |
| Date: | 09 1984 |
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| Description: | "Milton Retzlaff showed off some huge red Pontiac potatoes including a monster that weighted in at a whopping 2 1/2 pounds. Milton claims the potatoes are ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a butcher shop, with a male butcher sharpening a knife behind a counter lined with cuts of meat, sausages and a scale. Behind the counter ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman stand on the customer side of the counters. Phil Hof stands with a large knife behind a tabled covered with meat, while Sam and Herman Ho... |
| Date: | 09 08 1956 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football player Gene Melvin weighs in at 163 pounds and is the lightest player on the 1956 team. At right is the Wisconsin State... |
| Date: | 09 08 1956 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football player Bob Nelson weighs in at 239 pounds and is the heaviest player on the 1956 team. At right is the Wisconsin State ... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | An older man is standing in an office, possibly a weigh station of the Philadelphia Street Department. He is at a bench with papers and various office supp... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting in the driver's seat of an open truck loaded with grain on a scale at a weigh station. A man is standing near a small building holding the... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting in the driver's seat of an open truck loaded with grain, which is sitting on a scale at a weigh station. A man is standing near a small bu... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View of an unidentified male scientist looking into boxed paper apparatus, surrounded by other measuring tools and scales, in the corner of a Kimberly Clar... |
| Date: | 01 24 1930 |
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| Description: | View of two factory men at work desks at a plant that assembled Comet aircraft engines. They are sitting on wooden stools between Korn scales in a narrow b... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Superintendent of Biology Edward "Doc" Schneberger, who is wearing a long white coat, is sitting on a stool and looking through a microscope at a small tab... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of Oscar Mayer employees, men and women, wearing lab coats and hats who are weighing packaged meet on a variety of scales in a large... |
| Date: | 08 1975 |
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| Description: | Vendors weighing produce for customers from the back of a truck at the Dane County Farmers' Market on the Capitol Square. |
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