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University of Wisconsin-Extension Moves

Date: 03 04 1948
Description: University of Wisconsin-Extension mailing department, with Mrs. May B. Shire and Craig Gunter hard at work mailing loan packages of information throughout ...
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"Wisconsin State Journal" Staff Member

Date: 01 28 1949
Description: Carol Patterson compiles the mercantile and stock market sections of the "Wisconsin State Journal".
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Bank of Wisconsin Tellers

Date: 01 11 1928
Description: Elevated view of teller cages, Bank of Wisconsin, located at 1 West Main Street.
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Wisconsin Power & Light Company — Veteran Employees

Date: 04 11 1946
Description: Wisconsin Power & Light Company banquet for Veteran employees at the Hotel Loraine.
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Bank of Wisconsin

Date: 01 11 1928
Description: Male customer at savings collection window, Bank of Wisconsin, located at 1 West Main Street. A woman is standing behind the window.
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State Building & Grounds Retirees Dinner

Date: 01 25 1944
Description: Group portrait of those in attendence at a dinner to honor 14 retiring employees of the Division of Buildings and Grounds of the Wisconsin Bureau of Engine...
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Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department Retirement Party

Date: 01 26 1944
Description: Retiring employees of the Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department were honored by 116 employees at a dinner party set up in the office.
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Teen Summer Jobs

Date: 08 09 1950
Description: Sherwyn Woods, 1950 Wisconsin High School graduate, is shown spending his third consecutive summer as an employee of the Rennebohm Drug Company.
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Auto License Bureau

Date: 05 17 1939
Description: Wisconsin Auto License Bureau Card Typing Department, located at 16-20 East Doty Street. Women government employees are sitting at desks, while a male supe...
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Teen Summer Jobs

Date: 08 09 1950
Description: Leon Rosenberg, West High School 1950 graduate and valedictorian, is shown at his summer job at the Wisconsin State Journal filing hundreds of engra...
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Auto License Bureau

Date: 05 17 1939
Description: Wisconsin Auto License Bureau, 16-20 E. Doty Street, Card Typing Department, with women at typewriters and male supervisor.
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Teen Summer Jobs

Date: 08 09 1950
Description: Peggy Huiskamp, soon to be a Wisconsin High School senior, holds a tray of cookies at her summer job at Langdon's Home Bakery and Delicatessen on State Str...
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Anna Silbernagel Kurz

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Anna Silbernagel Kurz, reminisces about her father, Jacob Silbernagel, an early downtown Madison businessman for a story in the Wiscons...
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J. Robert Taylor at Desk

Date: 1938
Description: Informal portrait of J. Robert Taylor at his desk talking on the phone.
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Lena A. Zwank, Theodore J. Schlueter and Mary I. Whare

Date: 01 26 1944
Description: Lena A. Zwank, Theodore J. Schlueter and Mary I. Whare, Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department retirees, seated at a dining table set up in the office, with po...
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Governor Phil La Follette and Cy Ballam

Date: 12 02 1937
Description: Governor Phil La Follette and Cyril Ballam, clerk for the State Public Service Commission.
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Wisconsin Assembly Clerks and Employees

Date: 1877
Description: Composite of portraits of the men of the Wisconsin Assembly. Clerks and employees: 1. T.B. Reid, Sgt-at-Arms 2. W.A. Nowell, Chief Clerk 3. M. Knig...
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League of Women Voters

Date: 02 20 1950
Description: Mrs. Robert J. (Joan) Francis of 833 Miami Pass, member of League of Women Voters, listens to City Clerk A.W. Bareis as he explains how to use a voting mac...
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Postal Clerk with Christmas Mail

Date: 12 21 1944
Description: Mrs. R.S. Briggs, postal clerk, with Christmas cards and packages.
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Internal Revenue Service Office

Date: 03 14 1949
Description: Elevated view of workers serving customers at the Internal Revenue Service office as the tax deadline nears.

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