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Groundbreaking at Preschool

Date: 11 20 1963
Description: A three-year-old poses with a man-sized shovel of soil during a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of a new preschool. Behind him is a large steam shovel.
Photograph

Pie in the Face

Date: 12 10 1968
Description: Roland Sieg wiping pie from his face while smiling, after someone threw enough ping pong balls in a bucket to win a chance to hit him with a pie at a carni...
Photograph

Frosty House

Date: 12 18 1963
Description: A craft class member of Milwaukee public school system's recreation department frosting a gingerbread cookie house at the Grant Street social center.
Photograph

Crack Corn

Date: 08 03 1963
Description: A young boy is bending over on the sidewalk stoop and is holding a corn plant growing out of a pavement crack.
Photograph

William T. Evjue

Date: 1931
Description: Studio portrait of William T. Evjue.
Book or Pamphlet

Motor Cultivation

Date: 1920
Description: Interior pages of a pamphlet advertising the Parrett tractor titled: "The Need for Motor Cultivation." The pamphlet features three photographs of the tract...
Document

Letter to Dan Talbot

Date: 1974
Description: Letter to Dan Talbot from Emile de Antonio. The letter is on Manger Hay-Adams Hotel letterhead and concerns a possible retrospective of de Antonio's films.
Photograph

Grace Adams Houghton

Date: 07 15 1915
Description: Seated portrait of Grace Adams Houghton, a University of Wisconsin 1906 alumnus. She was a high school teacher in Onalaska. She came from West Salem, where...

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