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Governor Rennebohm

Date: 1950
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm speaking into a microphone on Governor's Day at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Two Mayors at the Fair

Date: 1941
Description: Mayor Carl Zeidler of Milwaukee and Mayor Leo J. Promen of Fond du Lac at the Wisconsin State Fair. Zeidler is sipping Coca-Cola from a bottle and Promen i...
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Men Preparing Publications at Harvester Press

Date: 1920
Description: Men preparing publications at Harvester Press, International Harvester's in-house print shop.
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Early Highway Trailer

Date: 1915
Description: An auto-trailer, an early trailer manufactured by the Highway Trailer Company of Edgerton. The company began by manufacturing trailers designed for farmer...
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Plows at Chattanooga Plow Works

Date: 1930
Description: Men (mostly likely employees), plows, cane mills and an evaporator are lined up on a Main Street sidewalk outside the Chattanooga Plow Works.
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Rumely and International Harvester Tractors in Demonstration

Date: 1910
Description: Groups of men in hats, shirts and ties stand around two tractors (one Rumely and one International Harvester) presumably for a demonstration or contest.
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Rajo Oil Corporation

Date: 1938
Description: D.W. Norred (left), International Shreveport branch, Roy Foster, switchman of the Rajo Oil Corporation, and Jack Anderson of Jack Anderson Company, an Inte...
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"Just a Little Joke, Mr. President"

Date: 1979
Description: During his remarks, Senator Gaylord Nelson, who is standing at the podium, cracks a joke, apparently at the President's expense. Wisconsin dignitaries to t...
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When the President Comes to Town

Date: 1979
Description: President Jimmy Carter waves to the audience who had come to hear him speak. Standing next to the President is Congressman David R. Obey and his family. Se...
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Diplomatic Meeting

Date: 1983
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (chin in hand) ponders a remark during a meeting of House of Representative leaders with their Soviet equivalents in Mo...
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President Carter, Up Close and Personal

Date: 1979
Description: President Jimmy Carter shaking hands in Wausau, while the Secret Service (left) keeps watch.
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Men and Boy at the Airport

Date: 1945
Description: Two men, members of the American Legion, and a young boy at an airport.
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Alfred P. Edgerton

Date: 1865
Description: Formal portrait of Alfred P. Edgerton seated at a small table.
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Sipping Wedding Champagne

Date: 1962
Description: Young couple drinking champagne, perhaps at their wedding. They are both holding champagne flutes, and the woman is wearing a wedding dress and a veil, and...
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Horse-Drawn Vehicles

Date: 1903
Description: View towards vehicles in the street, including hearses, and horses from the Burton House Livery parked along the curb in front of storefronts. Men stand ho...
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Residential Wake

Date: 1925
Description: Deceased man's body lying in open veiled coffin, surrounded by flowers, in a residential interior.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Machine Shop

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison machine shop. A large group of men are working various machines in the workshop area. Long wooden work...
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Group Portrait with Lawson Air Liner

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated view of a group of five men and one woman standing in front of a Lawson Air Liner parked in a field.
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Alfred Lawson Standing Next to Cockpit

Date: 1919
Description: Outdoor portrait of Alfred Lawson standing on steps next to the cockpit of a Lawson Air Liner.
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Chinese Couple's Wedding Portrait

Date: 05 18 1929
Description: Tou Fong Chu, bride and Tsao Shih Wang, groom, working on a PhD in Political Science at the U.W., are posing with, left to right: Justice Marvin Rosenberry...

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