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Date: | 1960 |
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Description: | Elevated view looking east from Lincoln Terrace on Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Lincoln Monument is in the foreground and... |
Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
Date: | 07 1959 |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
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Description: | Two men navigating their canoe through caves at the Wisconsin Dells. |
Date: | 10 15 1934 |
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Description: | Babe Ruth, wearing a dressing gown, signing autographs from a train car during a stopover in Madison. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Trail through the pines between Chippewa Falls and Long Lake, Chippewa County. |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the Yellow Cab Transfer Company located at 643 E. Wilson Street, (housed in the Denison Building) with two cabs with drivers out front. |
Date: | 06 27 1927 |
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Description: | Aerial view of the effigy mound on Henry Wehmhoff's Riverview Farm. State Trunk Highway 83 runs through the effigy. |
Date: | 08 11 1927 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the Strand Theater located at 16 East Mifflin Street near the corner of Wisconsin Avenue. The marquee reads "Babe Ruth and Anna Q. Nilsson... |
Date: | 04 10 1927 |
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Description: | Elevated view of buildings in the 200 block of State Street, with the Orpheum Theatre as a focal point. The theatre marquee reads "New Orpheum." Next door ... |
Date: | 1953 |
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Description: | This was the first boat & sled-type windsled built on Madeline Island. Built by Elmer Nelson for Howard Russell between 1950-1951. Had a 9-cylinder R-680-E... |
Date: | 1904 |
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Description: | Elevated view of City Hall and North Water Street in downtown Milwaukee. |
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Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Mendota Beach School group in front of a school building. |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Wisconsin State Board of Health's vehicle the "Child Welfare Special". |
Date: | 02 05 1930 |
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Description: | View from across the street of the Capitol Theatre tower. "Love Parade" is advertised on the marquee. Three automobiles are in the street in front of Peopl... |
Date: | 11 13 1914 |
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Description: | Cover art for Collings Vehicle and Harness Company catalog, comprised of International Harvester logo and black and white photograph of a man on a horse-dr... |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh... |
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Description: | Fire fighting scene in which a man is at the top of a very tall ladder mounted on a hook and ladder fire truck. A group of men observe. A haze of smoke fil... |
Date: | 1888 |
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Description: | Exterior view of Charles Pfeifer's Drugstore, founded in 1858. From left to right are Charles Pfeifer, Fred Pfeifer, Mrs. Adam Heeb, Fulda Pfeifer, Mrs. Ch... |
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