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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man is posing with his left hand resting on the trunk of the General Grant Giant Elm, S.E. of intersection of Green Bay and Good Hope Roads. At site of P... |
| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
| Date: | 01 10 1934 |
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| Description: | Milk strikers and a pile of empty milk cans next to railroad tracks. Bill Nemeth (left) is pouring out milk in an attempt to create a shortage that would r... |
| Date: | 02 1933 |
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| Description: | Winter scene showing snow removal vehicles working to clear the snow on Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee after a winter blizzard. |
| Date: | 08 06 1934 |
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| Description: | Reverend Richard Kiefer of Sacred Heart monastery in Hales Corners, Wisconsin, joins in the bingo competition at a Catholic picnic, as women and children a... |
| Date: | 07 27 1937 |
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| Description: | Contour strip cropping with corn, grain, alfalfa, grain, and alfalfa. Protected woodlot in background. |
| Date: | 04 26 1936 |
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| Description: | Planting trout in Waupaca County. Left to right on bank: S.A. LaVoilette, Joe Samz, Lloyd Pinkawski, Edwin Kargewski, W.M. Geiger, G. Moder, Billy LaVoilet... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Reproduction of the McCormick reaper of 1831. The replica was most likely produced by the International Harvester Company for the 1931 Reaper Centennial ce... |
| Date: | 08 17 1936 |
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| Description: | Neils Ruud, 824 E. Dayton Street, receiving the first unemployment compensation check issued in Wisconsin from Voyta Wrabetz, chairman of the state industr... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with four men walking on snowshoes through a forest. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Several men in white are shown churning a one-ton tub of butter for exhibit at the State Fair. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the Longfellow School's 4th grade class seated at their desks as their teacher stands at the back of the classroom. |
| Date: | 08 25 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Historical Society employees Dawn Young and Ray Lamb who are staffing the museum's historical drugstore exhibit. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Duluth and Georgian Bay Transit Co. of Chicago, Illinois' screw passenger cruise vessel, "South American." |
| Date: | 02 27 1930 |
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| Description: | Six men posing with the first trackless trolley. Wisconsin Valley Electric Company #4. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Bus of the Madison Railways Company parked in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 02 10 1934 |
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| Description: | A Civil Works Service employee with a check and equivalent in groceries. |
| Date: | 11 06 1939 |
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| Description: | The interior of Miller's store in the hat section. |
| Date: | 12 08 1933 |
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| Description: | A Kraft cheese display at the Kroger Store located at 3 Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 02 1935 |
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| Description: | People receiving fish at a relief station in the wintertime. |
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