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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Snowy street. On the opposite side of the street is a sign on a building for "Repp's Bar". |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View from Oshkosh Avenue across icy river towards the Pluswood factory in the distance. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A distant view across snow-covered towards the residence of J.H. Osborn. Osborn moved to Oshkosh in 1844 from New York City. He farmed, traded real estate,... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the residence of J.H. Osborn. Snow is on the ground. Osborn moved to Oshkosh permanently in 1844 from New York City. He farmed, tr... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the residence of J.H. Osborn. Osborn moved to Oshkosh permanently in 1844 from New York City. He farmed, traded real estate, and w... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Knaggs Ferry marker. Dedicated to James Knaggs who operated a ferry in Oshkosh for nineteen years. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Two women in Swiss costume kneeling in the grass during the Swiss Cheese celebration. One is blowing into an alpine horn while the other holds the instrume... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Katz family (from left): Ruthie, Rosa, Mark, and Arthur. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Maynard Brichford, Illinois State Archivist and noted authority on archives and record management issues, photographed earlier in his career in the archive... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | East Washington Avenue near Union Corners when first reopened after widening in 1955. Several vehicles are on the road. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View of the Historical Society Library Reading Room taken from the Visitors Gallery. Although undated, the photograph was probably taken shortly after the... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Historical Society Library Reading Room and the Visitors Gallery after their modernization during the mid-1950s. Prominent among the visible changes are a... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Alternate view of the modernization of the Historical Society Library Reading Room completed in the mid-1950s. Most prominent here is the division of the ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Construction work in the Historical Society Library Reading Room in preparation for installing linoleum floor tiles. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Ceiling high scaffolding in the Wisconsin Historical Society Library reading room, with a man and a woman attempting to study at the tables in the foregrou... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Lucille Kellar, coordinator of the Historical Society's McCormick Collection, with the new cases for the collection. She is standing outside the north entr... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Three fisherman in a boat pulling in a net full of fish on Chequamegon Bay while a man and a boy look on. |
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