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| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Drawing of a perfume bottle labeled "Attar of Clam" with a sign reading: "The most exquisite perfume made. TRIPLE DISTILLATION. Absolutely PURE |
| Date: | 05 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting at a writing desk at Estella's. She is facing a bright window which has a window seat. |
| Date: | 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Butch Quirk with a Cub Cadet tractor. Original magazine caption states: "Scientific farmer Quirk uses tractor hood as desk top as he records variety of cor... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Christmas card greeting, "A Merry Christmas to you 1907". |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Invoice of the John Pritzlaff Hardware Company of Milwaukee with an engraved illustration of the company warehouse. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Letterhead stationery of Wendell Anderson, the mayor of La Crosse, with an engraving of city hall. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Letterhead stationery of David S. Rose, the mayor of Milwaukee, showing an engraving of Milwaukee City Hall. |
| Date: | 03 22 1949 |
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| Description: | The Blessed Sacrament Parent Teacher Association sponsored a crafts and hobby show. There were 148 pupils participating with a variety of entries. The winn... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Men and women sitting at desks in a large, open office at International Harvester's Neuss branch in Germany. One man in the back is standing and reading a ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A job applicant interviews at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun Manufacture. H.E. Palmer, ind... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker tends a machine to produce binder twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 04 30 1982 |
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| Description: | A friendly letter from President Ronald Reagan to Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus. |
| Date: | 01 08 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the 20th Annual Creative Writing Contest, held from February 15-22. |
| Date: | 12 12 1949 |
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| Description: | The winners of the Madison Civic Music Association essay contest for high school students pose for a portrait. Left to right: Francis Axley, 3515 Sunset ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A man writes information on a chart as he weighs a can of milk in a barn. A row of cows standing in stalls is behind him. The man may be working at Interna... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man inside a building uses a hanging scale to weigh a can of milk. He writes the weight on a chart hanging adjacent to the scale. |
| Date: | 04 03 1950 |
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| Description: | Two members of the Madison Art Association spring banquet committee write out invitations to the banquet. Left, Mrs. Thomas R. (Madeline) Hefty, Edgewater... |
| Date: | 04 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the winners of the American Legion Essay Contest, a school official, and officers of the American Legion Auxiliary. Seated, left to right... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Letter from Martha MacMillan of Farmington, Michigan to the group Women for a Peaceful Christmas written on stationery bearing an Earth Day logo. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Letter from Carol Lampe of Fairfield, Connecticut to Women for a Peaceful Christmas written on colorful stationery with a writing surface in the shape of a... |
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