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"Plowboy" Approaching the Mission Dock

Date: 1904
Description: View from shoreline of the steamboat "Plowboy" approaching the Mission Dock at La Pointe. The Plowboy was the first steam ferry to go to Madeline Island. T...
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Maitland's Fokker

Date: 06 1927
Description: The Fokker airplane in which Lt. Lester Maitland of Milwaukee and Lt. Albert Hegenberger made the first California to Hawaii trans-Pacific crossing.
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Important Potawatomi Men

Date: 1890
Description: A group of locally important Potawatomi Indians, apparently photographed in a government or law office at Escanaba, Michigan. Left to right standing are Fr...
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Tank Cottage

Date: 1908
Description: View of the Tank cottage on its original site on the west side of the Fox River. The cottage was built in 1776 by Joseph Roi, a fur trader, who lived in it...
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Dedication of Historical Marker

Date: 1923
Description: This historical marker was erected in commemoration of the French explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet in Wyalusing State Park. The two men ...
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Executive Mansion

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the Executive Mansion in Madison.
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Hoan Bridge to Nowhere

Date: 04 01 1975
Description: The bridge over the Milwaukee Harbor named in honor of former Mayor Daniel Hoan. The bridge was constructed between 1970 and 1972, but during the period de...
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Agricultural Hall

Date: 1948
Description: Exterior of University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture. The building sits on a hill surrounded by a lawn with trees and bushes.
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Agricultural Hall

Date: 1948
Description: View from Babcock Drive. Landscaped entrance of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture.
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Chemical Engineering

Date: 1895
Description: Exterior of building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus at 600 N. Park Street.
Postcard

Law Building

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Description: View across Bascom Hill of the college building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Caption reads: "College of Law, University of Wisconsin, Mad...
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Music Hall

Date: 1901
Description: View across Bascom Hill of Music Hall and Library on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Science Hall from Bascom Hill

Date: 1895
Description: Science Hall from Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. There is a large smokestack on the left behind trees.
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Evans-Novak Political Forum

Date: 04 1990
Description: Subscribers to the newsletter issued by journalists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, the Evans-Novak Political Report, were able to attend regular forums at...
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Loading Sugar Cane

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Description: Several men loading sugar cane bales into train cars using a hoist. The text "USS Corp. 24" (partially obscured) is painted on one of the train cars.
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Nguyen Family with Television

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Description: Trong Nguyen poses with his children in the living room, next to the television. Charlie Nguyen sits on his lap. In front of him, from left to right, are T...
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Soldier in Vietnam

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Description: Soldier, possibly Michael Baldwin, sitting cross-legged at the base of a tree. Another soldier wearing a helmet is at the left.
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Monument of Thorfinn Karlsefni

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Description: Older woman standing outdoors next to a sculpture of Thorfinn Karlsefni, an Icelandic-born Scandinavian explorer of North America. Behind her is the Schuyl...
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The Fermenting Cellar

Date: 1885
Description: Engraved image of two men working in a cellar full of wooden barrels filled with fermenting beer.
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Glass Cased Monument

Date: 1900
Description: Detail of a cemetery showing a monument in the form of a marble statue of a seated young girl or woman sitting on a bench. The statue is enclosed in a prot...

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