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| Date: | 10 30 1935 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Madison Cafeteria, 215 W. Washington Avenue. There are seven servers behind the counter, and two customers are sitting at tables. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Factory workers pose at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. Original caption states: "First 26 employees at the new Indianapolis truck engine wor... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, laden with lumber, with operator repositioning load as the hoist leaves the lumber shed... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 2-ton monorail hoist in the William Wharton Jr. & Co. rail storage house. There's a man in the cab and the text on the cab reads "P... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An interior view of Brennecke and Bergmann Pharmacy on the corner 4th and Main Street. Two children are sitting on a chair in the middle of the floor, whil... |
| Date: | 05 24 1937 |
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| Description: | A man stands beside a truck in the new truck department on the third floor of International Harvester's Manhattan branch. Additional trucks are parked in t... |
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| Description: | Carson Gulley, the well-known University of Wisconsin-Madison chef, serving a catered meal at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed First Unitarian Society Meeti... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers stand around long tables in the canvas department at International Harvester's Deering Works Canvas Department. Canvas is piled in r... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Male and female factory workers wear protective hair bonnets while working in a room where twine is wound, weighed, and inspected. The workers stand in a r... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers are loading a wooden crate marked "McCormick Folding Daisy Reaper" using a pulley system in the docks of the McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 09 29 1913 |
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| Description: | A factory worker stacks wrapped and tied bundles of twine into a large pile in the Twine Mill at Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). Behind the ma... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Remodeling is underway for the new Hawthorne Branch Library at 2041 Atwood Avenue. This library location replaced the Williamson Street branch library and ... |
| Date: | 02 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Men are working in a repair shop. There are large windows along the back wall in the background, and the ceiling is exposed. A block and tackle is hanging ... |
| Date: | 01 11 1921 |
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| Description: | Construction sequence of Disk Harrows, with attachments and seeders. The two men are standing and wearing work clothes over their shirts and ties. Both men... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing on either side of a saloon bar. The bartender on the right is identified as John Carlson. The bar has a stamped tin ceiling, and there... |
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