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Distribution of Food

Date: 12 02 1956
Description: Elevated view of a Cub Scout, Girl Scout, and Brownie Scout standing on the sidewalk bringing boxes of food to St. Vincent de Paul to be distributed to rec...
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Young Girl Sounds Siren of International Fire Truck

Date: 1966
Description: A group of children are covering their ears as a young girl sounds the horn of an International truck. Some of the children are holding balloons in their h...
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Hill's Baby Week Window

Date: 05 03 1943
Description: Hill's Dry Goods Store, 202 State Street, National Baby Week window, showing baby clothes and stuffed animals.
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Crippled Children Fire Drill

Date: 11 28 1932
Description: Crippled children in a fire drill at Longfellow School, 1002 Chandler Street. Greenbush Neighborhood. "They emerge in two orderly files, one for the most a...
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George Little & Son Leaving Madison

Date: 04 14 1932
Description: George Little, former University of Wisconsin athletic director, and son George Jr., leaving Madison, at railroad station.
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Katherine Verikios

Date: 11 21 1931
Description: Katherine Verikios, 10, 1135 E. Mifflin Street, wearing fur-trimmed coat. She won the Madison Label Saving contest and received a new Chevrolet.
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School Kids Leaving Home for School

Date: 09 05 1931
Description: Two school kids on the sidewalk leaving home for school.
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Virginia Gillette Spanking Dicky Dupois

Date: 08 27 1931
Description: Virginia Gillette demonstrates how residents in the 400 block of Virginia Terrace are combating traffic dangers by spanking. Dicky Dupois is over her knee,...
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Two Boys Sitting in a Tree

Date: 07 26 1930
Description: Rolland Anders, 15, 3205 Milwaukee Street, and Roy Dennis, 14, 26 Bryan Street, sitting in a tree at the corner of Bryan and Thorp Street hoping to break t...
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Red Cloud Park

Date: 1978
Description: Native Americans keeping the music alive. George Whitewing, a Ho Chunk musician from Wittenberg, Wisconsin, plays his drum while a crowd looks on in Red Cl...
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Observation, Battery Park

Date: 1968
Description: A boy looking through a pay binocular stand in Battery Park. Graffiti makes the device seem to smile and young trees grow in the background.
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Composite Layout of Family Portraits with Local Views

Date: 1890
Description: Composite layout combining family portraits with local views. Probably the family of Gerhard Gesell in Alma.
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Men with Large Poles Atop a Sprayer

Date: 1910
Description: Two men are standing on top of what appears to be a sprayer, probably for use in orchards (though the urban setting suggests the possibility of other appli...
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Vel Phillips Pitching a Baseball

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Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a baseball glove, hat and a sweatshirt that reads "Milwaukee Commando NAACP Youth Council" pitching a baseball. In the background sta...
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Actors on the Set of "The Cool World"

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Description: An actress and actor standing just outside the entrance of a restaurant while shooting the film "The Cool World." The woman is wearing a cocktail dress and...
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Elderly Woman Watching Children's Parade

Date: 05 10 1979
Description: An elderly woman sitting on a park bench is watching the children's parade as part of the Week of the Young Child celebration. The Week of the Young Child ...
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Enjoying the Ride

Date: 06 22 1978
Description: A boy enjoying an amusement ride on swings at the East Side Businessmen's Club carnival at Milwaukee Street and Fair Oaks Avenue. Other riders, carnival-go...
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Vang Brothers

Date: 1986
Description: Four brothers posing in and next to a shopping cart. Caption reads: "Bee Vang ended up in the lower berth, and his brothers, Sam and John, rode on top as a...
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Mullet River

Date: 1940
Description: A young boy wearing knickers, high stockings and a jacket is watching two swans on the Mullet River. A bridge and the rear of commercial buildings are in t...
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Sport Illustrated

Date: 1956
Description: An adult and a child riding a toboggan down the slide at Iverson Park.

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