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Alarm Clock & Study Desk
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Carved wooden combination alarm clock & study desk made by John Muir about 1862, while a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on display in the Wisconsin Historical Society museum.
January 10, 1945
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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WHi 41415
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Journalist and Coach
November 13, 1950
Journalist "Roundy" Coughlin (right) confers with Wisconsin basketball coach "Bud" Foster regarding an alarm clock.
Pyramid Motor Company Stockroom
May 2, 1947
Parts counter and stockroom at Pyramid Motor Company, 434 West Gilman Street.
USO Service Club Interior
December 20, 1945
Two African American women at a counter in the USO Service Club. There is a Coca-Cola machine behind a counter. Probably taken in First Unitarian Society Parish Hall, 15 E. Dayton Street.
Man and Woman Doing a Vocational Test
August 10, 1945
A woman timing a man performing a vocational test - possibly a World War II veteran.
Bicycle Safety Week
April 29, 1947
Two men presenting a bicycle safety award to a young boy in front of a NBC WIBA radio microphone.
