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Young Eagle

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Description: Posed portrait of Ho-Chunk man, Young Eagle, also called Chack-Scheb-Nee-Neik-Ah.
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Yellow Thunder

Date: 1880
Description: Studio portrait of Yellow thunder, a Winnebago Chief.
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Betsy Thunder

Date: 02 06 1913
Description: Betsy Thunder, Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) medicine woman, posing in front of a painted backdrop near a prop stone wall.
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Ganna Walska Holding a Cat

Date: 1921
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Ganna Walska, Polish opera singer, holding a cat. At the time this picture was taken, Ganna Walska was th...
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Man and Fan at Lawrence Lunch

Date: 05 22 1936
Description: Man standing next to new fan at Lawrence Lunch, 662-664 State Street.
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Charles H. Hopkins

Date: 05 31 1935
Description: Charles H Hopkins, retiring postal employee, closing his rolltop desk for the last time. He was the superintendent of the East Side postal station, located...
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Golf Swing

Date: 05 13 1935
Description: Kully Schlicht posing on his follow through of a golf swing.
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Francis Gallet, Golfer

Date: 05 13 1935
Description: Francis Gallet, Blue Mound professional golfer, Milwaukee, posing in golf swing.
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Mrs. Karl Luedtke

Date: 07 27 1934
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Karl Luetke, Green Lake, Wisconsin, golf finalist for Women's State Golf Championship.
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Mrs. Karl Leutke

Date: 07 27 1934
Description: Outdoor portrait of Mrs Karl Luetke, Green Lake, Wisconsin, finalist in Women's State Golf Championship.
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Mrs. Leutke & Mary Callahan

Date: 07 27 1934
Description: Marian Callahan, new women's state champion golfer and Mrs. Karl Luetke, former champion at Nakoma Country Club. It became Nakoma Golf Club in 1944.
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Ruth Holt with Mother

Date: 07 23 1934
Description: Portrait of Ruth Holt holding golf club, at the Nakoma golf course, age 10. She was the youngest player in the Junior Qualifying Round of the Wisconsin Wom...
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Paula Parker

Date: 07 23 1934
Description: Outdoor portrait of Paula Parker, playing for Westmoor of West Allis in the Wisconsin Women's Junior Golf Championship.
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Dorothy Page & Mary Callahan

Date: 07 24 1934
Description: Mary Callahan, Nakoma on the left, and Dorothy Page, Madison on the right, leaders in the qualifying round of the Wisconsin women's golf association tourna...
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Women Golfers

Date: 06 06 1934
Description: Two golfers, Miss Merle Nickles, and possibly Miss Marion Callahan, posing on the Nakoma Golf Course with putters.
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Laundress at Madison General Hospital

Date: 02 06 1934
Description: Older woman laundry worker folding items at a table in front of industrial laundry equipment, in the laundry at Madison General Hospital.
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Fire Chief John Lahm

Date: 01 02 1934
Description: Fire Chief John Lahm standing in front of a fire truck parked in front of the Central Fire Station, 18-20 South Webster Street.
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Mrs. Margaret Wells Wood

Date: 09 27 1933
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Margaret Wells Wood, speaker on "Petting Parties," at the Loraine Hotel. A lecturer and field worker for the American Social Hygiene Assoc...
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Mrs. Mary DeRenzo

Date: 06 09 1933
Description: Mrs. Mary DeRenzo, "Dean of the scrub women's crew" at the Wisconsin State Capitol, holding the mop she used for thirty years.
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Mrs. Lee Statz, Golfer

Date: 06 15 1931
Description: Mrs. Lee Statz, golfer, at Nakoma golf course.

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