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| Date: | 07 24 1937 |
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| Description: | Poster with words "Holidays With Pay!" at the bottom illustrated by sketches of workers punching in to work and of people relaxing on a beach. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from Chappell's Ad Dept. The card has seven consecutive panels accordion folded. The front panel shows a bell hanging by a ribbon surrounded b... |
| Date: | 05 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Diners wait in a long line on Mother's Day to get into Piper's Garden Cafeteria, 120 East Mifflin Street. |
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| Description: | Floral chromolithographed trade card from C.H. Holst, New Holstein, Wisconsin, that wished a Happy New Year to its customers. The card is part of a collec... |
| Date: | 01 18 1929 |
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| Description: | A woman demonstrates how to use a Hankscraft egg cooker in a mock Easter display window with Easter bunnies and Easter eggs. |
| Date: | 03 14 1952 |
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| Description: | J. Edward O'Connell, an assistant cashier at First National Bank, with some green carnations. He traditionally hands out green carnations to one hundred fi... |
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| Description: | Patriotic parade, probably Memorial Day, through town on the board sidewalk, in front of the First National Bank looking back toward the Jackson County Cou... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card of a tree in a pot with hearts on the branches. A sign on the upper right reads: "A Valentine MONEY TREE For You." There are ten slots... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Three men, including Governor Patrick J. Lucey, pose in front of a sign that reads: "Labor Works For Highway Safety. Make Labor Day Weekend A Safe, Pleasan... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Elderly man pulling a sled loaded with packages and bags. He is wearing a plaid coat. His dog is sniffing the snow. Trees cover a snow covered berm in the ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card of a large heart with a "check" on top of it. At the top of the heart is the text: "A Wealth of Love," and at the bottom is: "Just Che... |
| Date: | 04 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Jo Clark, age 3, is sitting on a table in a department store as clerk Frances Sternberger (left) is tying the chin strap of a new Easter hat. Jo's mother, ... |
| Date: | 12 02 1970 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the Union Gallery and Crafts Committee Holiday Art Sale, held in the Main Lounge of the Memorial Union. A caricatured Santa is illustrat... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | This map shows roads, parks, golf courses, airports, beaches, docks and harbors, lighthouses, and buoys within Winnebago County and parts of Waushara, Calu... |
| Date: | 04 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Arthur Dier smiles approval as his fiancee, Evelyn Schaefer, asks his opinion of a bright flowery Easter hat at a Madison store. Ms. Schaefer, in the foreg... |
| Date: | 04 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Three boys are pressing their noses to the window of a pet shop on a busy Monroe Street, while viewing five rabbits. Two boys have their thumbs in their ea... |
| Date: | 12 23 1959 |
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| Description: | View down State Street from the Capitol Square following a snowstorm. A Christmas tree is standing on the corner, and other holiday decorations are hanging... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof. The illustration is of a truck driver in a yellow truck for Kingan's Reliable Hams and Bacon. Text on bottom right reads: "This is Kinga... |
| Date: | 11 17 1960 |
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| Description: | The West Side Garden Club holds its annual "Holiday House" show. Proceeds from the show are used for garden therapy, civic projects, conservation, and scho... |
| Date: | 11 25 1976 |
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| Description: | Thanksgiving Day Parade, either Macy's Parade in Manhattan, New York, or Gimbels' Parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A tan and white International Harve... |
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