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Mud Wrestling

Date: 03 14 1981
Description: Onlookers watch as participants flail around in a mud pit wrestling ring. One spectator wears a bird costume.
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Spring Fashion Show

Date: 03 31 1963
Description: A model walks down the runway during an Easter dress fashion show. Ticket sales benefitted the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee community center.
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School Crossing Guard

Date: 09 10 1987
Description: A traffic crossing guard reading while she is waiting for a Grafton elementary school to dismiss its students for the day.
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Paper Plate Imposters

Date: 11 10 1966
Description: First grade students look at likenesses of themselves seated at their desks. They created these by drawing their faces on paper plates, attaching them to ...
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"Hand-held Binoculars"

Date: 10 14 1961
Description: Girls wearing head scarves form their fingers to make "binoculars" on a sunny autumn day.
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Beach Reflection

Date: 07 20 1988
Description: Two men walking along the edge of Lake Michigan.
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Surgical Tools

Date: 1927
Description: Surgical instruments on display at the Wisconsin Historical Museum.
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Beloit College Campus Path

Date: 1930
Description: View from street towards a walking path through the woods, with people strolling on the pathway.
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Hawks Tavern

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior of Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn, with front porch.
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Madison Street Bridge

Date: 1930
Description: Madison Street Bridge, built in about 1925. View from shoreline across river with the bridge on the right.
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Paul Bunyan Logging Camp Museum

Date: 1946
Description: Paul Bunyan Logging Camp Museum.
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Maypole Dance on Bascom Hill

Date: 1916
Description: Maypole Dance at the May Fete on Bascom Hill. Just visible at the top of the photograph is the new Wisconsin State Capitol, completed except for the north ...
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Suburban Neighbors

Date: 06 1972
Description: View along the 2700 block of Fish Hatchery Road, with billboard advertising residential lots in Tower Hill Park (a development by Llyman McKee and William ...
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Football Coach Addresses Players

Date: 1991
Description: Head coach Dan Coughlin addresses his players, the Aquinas Bluegold Varsity football team, after his team's first playoff spot was clinched at the close of...
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Drummers at Pow Wow

Date: 08 07 1967
Description: Harry Funmaker (left) of Wisconsin Dells, and Ray Tahawah of Lawton, Oklahoma, drumming. A crowd of young people is in the background.
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Aneroid Consolidated School

Date: 06 25 1925
Description: Individuals exit an International school bus to stand in line at the doors of Aneroid Consolidated School, No.3704.
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Children in School Garden

Date: 1913
Description: Several children standing in a school garden.
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International Motor Trucks Billboard Design

Date: 1919
Description: Billboard design for International Harvester Company motor trucks, features an illustration of a truck bearing the text: "Morris & Company" set against a g...
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International Motor Trucks Billboard Design

Date: 1919
Description: Billboard design for International Motor Trucks. The billboard features an illustration of a truck bearing the text: "Armour Company" and text that reads: ...
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International Motor Trucks Billboard Design

Date: 1919
Description: Billboard design for International motor trucks featuring an illustration of a man driving a truck bearing the text: "Star Transfer Line" climbing a hill w...

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