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| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a man using a Farmall H tractor near International Harvester's experimental farm. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The 600 block of Williamson Street ("Machinery Row") with the old Fauerbach Brewery in the background. |
| Date: | 08 12 1948 |
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| Description: | One of the many demonstrations organized by the People's Progressive Party in Milwaukee to fight the ever-rising cost of living. The campaign includes the ... |
| Date: | 06 29 1946 |
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| Description: | An African American mechanic works on a car up on the rack for servicing at the gas station Meehan Motor Mart, 209 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 12 1940 |
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| Description: | Cottage Cafe, 917 University Avenue. Close-up of interior of Cafe taken through the front window. |
| Date: | 11 1946 |
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| Description: | A vigorous campaigner, Joseph R. McCarthy relaxes in front of a log cabin fireplace after his electoral campaign. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | View across field of a man harvesting wheat with a Farmall M tractor and No. 122 combine (harvester-thresher). |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Asher Treat, collector of Appalachian folk songs, which were transplanted to northern Wisconsin (Crandon vicinity) by the "Kaintucks" (people from Kentucky... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Possibly Louis J. Ropson, a farmer and violin maker from Luxemburg who lived in Dyckesville. |
| Date: | 08 15 1941 |
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| Description: | Otto Rindlisbacher, folk singer and maker of stringed instruments, and violin collection, sitting in his shop holding a Hardanger fiddle. Caption at bottom... |
| Date: | 07 30 1946 |
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| Description: | Helene Stratman-Thomas, right, Moody Price and three other people. |
| Date: | 08 1941 |
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| Description: | Charles Robinson, singer of lumberjack songs, left, with an unidentified man sitting behind what appears to be a microphone on a stand. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from a smokestack of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including Camp Randall Stadium. |
| Date: | 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Governor and Mrs. Oscar Rennebohm in the Governor's Residence, 130 E. Gilman Street, listening to the election returns on the radio. Some of the mansion's... |
| Date: | 06 21 1948 |
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| Description: | East Washington Avenue at First Street showing the trees lining the boulevard and the sides of the street. Residents are protesting the proposed removal of... |
| Date: | 02 02 1947 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with two young girls, Jo Ann Simon and Barbara Gatanowicz, sitting on a reclining snowman in front of the Camp Randall married student trailer... |
| Date: | 07 26 1947 |
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| Description: | Crowd and officials watch Soap Box Derby contestants at the finish line on East Gorham Street. |
| Date: | 12 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Two African American women at a counter in the USO Service Club. There is a Coca-Cola machine behind a counter. Probably taken in First Unitarian Society P... |
| Date: | 04 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Stanley and Nora Mockrud and their eight children sit in a front pew at Bethel Lutheran Church, 312 Wisconsin Avenue. The children (left to right) are: Nol... |
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