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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Summertime view of people at tables on University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union terrace, looking out to canoes and sailboats on the lake. In the back... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A woman demonstrating how Shake Rag Street got its name, with the restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, behind her. The house was temporarily co... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of the porch of the house at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A group of women are gathered on the fron porch. Snow covers the ground. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Well-dressed relatives leave a house where they attended a family gathering. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men and a woman pose in front of the L.C. Welch Plumbing and Heating store, 137 Third Avenue. There are signs advertising Maytag and Shellane, "compres... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, photographed by American journalist Alvin Steinkopf, about one year after the German invasion. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A barbed wire fence in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw constructed to quarantine people infected with lice. At this point the wall around the entire ghetto had... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Market Hall and Square in Krakow, Poland, about a year after the German invasion. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards a man and a woman posing in the act of putting on a green of the golf course in Peninsula State Park. Eagle Harbor and the village o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "U.S. Post Office, Stevens Point, Wis." Exterior view from street of the Post Office on a street corner, built in 1919. Women and chil... |
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