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| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Filling station sign reading: "smile," purposely put upside down. A young woman is bending over to read it. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | View towards a farmer on a Farmall Cub tractor with attached cultivator. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | International crawler tractors (TracTracTors) in front of an International Harvester dealership. One of the digging attachments has teeth painted on it. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Philleo Nash, a Democrat, riding on an elephant during the annual Circus Parade. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | View of Main Street, lined with the fire department, city clerk's office, and Pugh's Battery - Electric Shop. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of street with bridge in Darlington. Cars are parked in the center of the street at an angle. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | The Kilbourn Hydroelectric Plant of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | As part of a statewide boycott of Wilson products, delegates to the State Federation of Labor in Cedar Rapids participate in an automobile parade. One car-... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Woman's Building, one of the oldest buildings in the city. It is believed to have been built in 1842 by John Folsom, an early settler and farmer on the hei... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | View from street of the Purdy house, Portage, Wisconsin. A stone wall runs along the sidewalk, topped with an iron fence. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Paul Spencer, a member of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 in Memphis, reminds citizens of his locals' strike against Wilson & Co. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east from shoreline of Lake Monona towards Monona shoreline. There is a road, railroad tracks, and a rocky beach area with parked au... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking south over Lake Monona. Shoreline and automobiles in parking lot in lower right, next to a road. Railroad tracks cross the lake and b... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of dirt parking lot between a road and the lake. Steam is rising from the lake, and the far shoreline can be seen in the distance. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Aerial view over University Avenue of University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Chadbourne Hall, built 1958-1959, is in the lower foreground, the Wisconsin H... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Color postcard of an aerial view of town. There is a lake in the background in the upper left. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Parked limousine with open doors on a Havana street at the end of the Cuban Revolution. Two men in the foreground appear to be taking photographs of the ve... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Close-up of July 26th Movement soldiers sitting on a military vehicle during a parade to celebrate Fidel Castro's arrival in Havana at the end of the Cuban... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking over a parking lot full of International Metro trucks. Factory buildings are in the background. |
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