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| Date: | 06 26 1933 |
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| Description: | U.S. weather observer, Oscar E. Olson, sitting at his desk, looking at a thermometer and wiping the sweat from the back of his neck on a hot summer day. |
| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Ottoman Parrhysius, cold meat cook at the Loraine Hotel, posing with a parrot ice sculpture that he created. |
| Date: | 01 21 1948 |
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| Description: | William L. Doudna, Wisconsin State Journal staffer, interviews movie actress Esther Williams during her visit to Madison. In the background is the W... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing with an International A tractor owned by the City of Bloomington. The tractor has a grader and front loader attached. The men are prep... |
| Date: | 01 12 1957 |
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| Description: | Chairmen of the party Warren and Louise Kreunen admire a full sized snowman decoration at the National Sales Executives of Madison party. |
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| Description: | A child could count in rounded numbers the Christmas chance of pudding from the sky |
| Date: | 04 23 1965 |
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| Description: | Governor Warren Knowles' Command Post, located in the Capitol, was called into action after tornadoes struck southern Wisconsin. It serves as the disaster ... |
| Date: | 06 2014 |
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| Description: | A Sony T.V. is sitting on top of a speaker in front of two windows with window blinds. On the screen, a man wearing a suit is standing in front of a screen... |
| Date: | 12 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Chief of weather operations, L.A. Joos, is on the telephone, while W.C. Williamson is standing at a slanted desk checking one of several weather maps. They... |
| Date: | 12 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Harold Evans launching a weather balloon from the pilot balloon shelter on top of the Truax Field control tower. |
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| Description: | View over metal forms towards two men who are using ice picks to move the ice from the forms out onto the floor. Large windows are on the far wall in the b... |
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| Description: | Two men dressed in lab coats and hats are holding pick axes to move ice bricks out from metal containers in the foreground. A line of ice bricks are behind... |
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| Description: | Four men are in a large room with a high ceiling. Three of the man are on the floor working to move ice bricks towards the stack of ice in the background. ... |
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| Description: | Advertisement for John Trumble's photography studio which, at the time, also included an art gallery and a store for camera supplies and antiques. The post... |
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| Description: | A man is looking through a window towards another man in a cold lab testing a truck. Caption reads: "A parka-clad engineer braves thirty below zero tempera... |
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