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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: | 1964 |
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Description: | A group of African American students participating in a Freedom School class outdoors during Freedom Summer. The class, which was held on Tougaloo College ... |
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Description: | Portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes posing at a typewriter. |
Date: | 1898 |
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Description: | Group of people on the front porch, weighing the guests. A visit was considered successful if the guests weighed more when they left. |
Date: | 10 28 1928 |
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Description: | Al Smith and his National Chairman John Raskob on the porch of the Raskob home. |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | "Gen." Wooster Harrison house, built in 1835. It was reported to have housed Abraham Lincoln overnight. |
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Description: | Interior of the parlor at "Walden", the estate of Cyrus McCormick, Jr. |
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Description: | Elevated view of woman hanging up laundry on clotheslines outdoors. |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Mendota Beach School group in front of a school building. |
Date: | 01 23 1928 |
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Description: | Interior view of the Capitol Theatre balcony in the auditorium. |
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Description: | Portrait of Homer Bigart with elderly couple. Bigart was an award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times". |
Date: | 1926 |
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Description: | A dilapidated Cedar Bark Lodge with no glass in the windows and an overgrown yard on Hermit Island. |
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... |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | Orpheum Theatre usher, Rolland W. Hamelin, who had recently received an appointment to West Point. 216 State Street. |
Date: | 05 12 1933 |
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Description: | Ellen (Mrs. William) Lacy, of Sunny Slope farm, 5810 Lacy Road, south of Madison, sitting in the farmyard and turning a barrel butter churn. |
Date: | 05 12 1933 |
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Description: | Mrs. Wilson Mutchler of Stoners' Prairie farm at 2533 Mutchler Road, south of Madison, cooking soup on a woodstove. |
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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: | 05 21 1933 |
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Description: | Two men examine a break in the dike and the wash out damage at Forest Hill Cemetery, Section 22. The house in the background is located at 454 Virginia Ter... |
Date: | 1970 |
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Description: | Historic home on University Avenue being demolished. The home was replaced by Burger King, a fast-food, drive-in restaurant. |
Date: | 05 15 1933 |
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Description: | Jennie Justo with hat in hand, is embraced by her mother, Lena Justo, as she leaves for a year in the Milwaukee jail for being the alleged owner of a stude... |
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