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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor... |
| Date: | 08 26 1960 |
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| Description: | Miniature model of the Wisconsin Dells. Goggled diver, Ollie Reese, swimming with Dells recreation boat. This completely landscaped exhibit was built to sc... |
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| Description: | Immigrants buying tickets at Ellis Island. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Loggers breaking up a log jam in the Peshtigo River area. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View over sidewalk of a street railroad car passing the old Northwestern Railroad Station on the 400 block of West Lakeside Street. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | This is a family photograph of Nels Wickstrom with his wife Anna (born Anna Stoel) and their children in front of their log home. The oldest child, wearing... |
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| Description: | A man holding a bottle of milk is standing and posing next to a horse-drawn Gridley Dairy milk wagon. Two other men are standing on the left near a brick b... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Color portrait of photographer Edmund Eisenscher. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Madison admirers gather around Charles Lindbergh upon his arrival in the city. This photograph is believed to have been taken in 1928 when Lindbergh return... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | From left to right Ida Fisk, Dorothy Purchas (b. 1891), Emma (Thorsen) Purchas (1862-1944), and Ethelinda (Thorsen) Johnston (1856-1947) of Milwaukee, Wisc... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from railing of immigrants boarding a ferry to depart Ellis Island. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover, sister of Civil War hero and governor Lucius Fairchild, reclines on a sofa in her home at 424 North Pinckney Street. |
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| Description: | Edmund Eisenscher (1909-1995), posing with his dog. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Caption on negative sleeve: "Aldo Leopold and son Luna (standing); Mrs. Leopold and two daughters Nina and Estella (kneeling). 'Shack' in background." The ... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the second Wisconsin State Capitol, (the second State Capitol was the first built in Madison). |
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| Description: | Hamlin Garland, the writer, portrait showing him in later life. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright with apprentices at Taliesin. Eric Lloyd Wright is seated to the right of FLW. Taliesin is located south of Spring Green, on the opposit... |
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| Description: | John Lloyd Jones house, near Hillside Home School on Highway 23 across from Taliesin. A man and a woman are standing and holding bicycles, one woman is kne... |
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