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| Date: | 02 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Girls being weighed to determine their donations of a penny a pound to the YWCA camp. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A man dressed in a Smokey Bear costume is standing with two Milwaukee school children. A young girl is sitting at a desk, and a boy is standing and holding... |
| Date: | 10 04 1958 |
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| Description: | A new mother is looking on as her 13-pound newborn infant is weighed by the nurse. |
| Date: | 10 11 1981 |
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| Description: | Jim Niemann decorates dipped chocolates at his family's business, Niemann's Home Made Chocolate Shop. |
| Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of five women researchers performing various aspects of food research and related activities in a test kitchen and laboratory at the... |
| Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Gosling's Sales and Service display at West Side Business Men's Association harvest festival featuring coffee grinders, meat grinders and Holcomb & Hoke Ma... |
| Date: | 07 09 1943 |
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| Description: | A woman shopping in the produce department at the Kroger store at Union Corners, 2541 Winnebago Street. She was promoting the Oscar Mayer Health for Victor... |
| Date: | 04 08 1938 |
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| Description: | Four employees behind the meat counter in the North St. Meat Market (Jacobson's), 227 North Street. |
| Date: | 04 08 1938 |
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| Description: | Four employees behind the meat counter in the North Street Market, 227 North Street. |
| Date: | 02 05 1938 |
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| Description: | Side view of Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Weights and Measures Division truck parked in a garage beside measuring device. |
| Date: | 02 26 1936 |
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| Description: | Three men in CUNA (Credit Union National Association) mailing room, Raiffeisen House, located at 142 East Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 08 07 1934 |
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| Description: | Interior of produce warehouse, Kroger Grocery and Baking Company, 634 West Washington Avenue, with sacks of sugar and a large Fairbanks scale. |
| Date: | 08 19 1931 |
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| Description: | A large Grifola frondosus or cabbage mushroom, 10" high and 14" by 28" thick, weighing 36 pounds, being weighed on a Toledo scale, was found growing betwee... |
| Date: | 05 20 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a Toledo Computogram scale on a counter in a Dodgeville store, with the grocer weighing bananas. In the background is a display of merchan... |
| Date: | 05 20 1931 |
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| Description: | View of Anglidle scale in Dodgeville store showing grocer weighing bananas. Merchandise is on display on the counter and on shelves in the background. |
| Date: | 04 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Avenue Food Shop, located at 2427 University Avenue, with stacks of canned goods and a woman employee using a Toledo scale. |
| Date: | 04 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Avenue Food Shop, 2427 University Avenue, with a woman weighing items on an old balance beam scale. |
| Date: | 01 31 1931 |
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| Description: | Toledo scale outside Strand Theatre, 16 E. Mifflin Street. "Your weight free" advertising the movie "Reducing." On the right is a poster for the movie "Pai... |
| Date: | 01 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Lillian Rice (aka Loretta La Boze), 18 of Janesville, in man's clothing with police matron, Pearl Shaughnessy, at the Police Station. Lillian was arrested ... |
| Date: | 11 15 1929 |
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| Description: | A worker weighing a wheel of cheese on a balance scale for the National Cheese Products Federation. |
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