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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Training classes for University of Wisconsin student cadets in the repair of automobiles and trucks during World War I. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Advanced, horse-drawn road grader in action. Here, excess dirt moves up a conveyor belt and is dumped in a wagon next to the grader. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exhibit of the Waukesha County Holstein-Friesian Breeders Association at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | International Harvester-made bus of the Park Hotel, probably photographed near the railroad station where it was picking up passengers. This small jitney-t... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Universal Delivery Grocery Truck built by the Wisconsin Wagon Company. The photograph was taken in 1921, about the time the company relocated its operatio... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of old toll bridge across the Wisconsin River at Prairie du Sac. The view is looking north toward Sauk County. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Road construction crew of the Nelson Weber Construction Company and steam shovel. This construction was photographed for the Wisconsin Good Roads Associati... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Two rowboats docked in a river surrounded by trees, following a recent snowfall. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Governor Phil La Follette with a display promoting Wisconsin peas. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of commercial section of Monroe, WI. Green County Courthouse is pictured in the middle of the town square. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Man at the counter of office in Dane County where clerk, Selma Fjelstad, is issuing a hunting license. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Civil Conservation Camp (CCC), tentatively identified as the Bloomington camp. |
| Date: | 05 23 1936 |
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| Description: | Zor Shrine Circus group posing in front of the Masonic Temple. |
| Date: | 05 23 1936 |
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| Description: | Madison Shriners, Temple 159, with their midget automobile. |
| Date: | 06 23 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers in trial fields of the Leonard Seed Company, with the processing plant in the background. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Living room, perhaps the lobby, of the Claridge Apartment Hotel. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Crowd seated on the lawn of Agriculture Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a ceremony honoring S.M. Babcock, inventor of the butter test. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Miller's Women's apparel shop located on East Main Street on the Capitol Square. The building in which it was located was constructed by Marcus Kohner, one... |
| Date: | 07 14 1928 |
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| Description: | Home economics demonstration about interior design for the women attending an Agricultural Extension Station Day. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two women working in a large vegetable garden. A long building, perhaps a barn, and a smaller building are on the left. In the background ... |
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