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| Date: | 06 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Campers Marilyn Homes, left, and Patricia Brown, right, learn to read a sundial at the Brownie Hoyt Park Day Camp. |
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| Description: | Exterior of "Old Main" at the State Normal School, founded in 1868. The view features a main entrance flanked by columns. A statue and a sundial stand on ... |
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| Description: | A view of a lawn at the State Normal School accented with a bust and sundial. Trees and various plantings dot the landscape. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A view of Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Lake Geneva. It was the "largest refracting telescope in the world," according to "Wisconsin: A Guide To The ... |
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| Description: | A couple poses near a sundial on a brick walkway in a park. On the right is the original east wing of French Lick Springs Hotel, established in 1845 and bu... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | An Algerian National Liberation Front member uses binoculars while on patrol. He is sitting on a boulder with his back against another boulder. Beside him ... |
| Date: | 01 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle on a LST (Landing Ship, Tank) after the landing at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). He has binoculars in his hands. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View looking down at a sundial and stone geese in a garden area with a seashell flower ring at the Dickeyville Grotto. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | With a critical eye, Erich von Stroheim examines his make-up in a hand mirror. He sits outdoors in costume as the German military doctor Otto von Harden in... |
| Date: | 01 17 1980 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips standing outdoors wearing a coat holding binoculars. |
| Date: | 01 17 1980 |
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| Description: | Group portrait at Horicon Marsh. Vel Phillips stands in the middle of the group wearing a coat and dark pants. The man on the far right is W. Dale Phillips... |
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| Description: | A sundial on the walkway shows the time around sunset at the entrance to the main house at House on the Rock. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An American Indian woman is bending over the carcass of a young deer on the ground in a wooded area. A man, far right, is looking at the camera while holdi... |
| Date: | 1760 |
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| Description: | A map of the world in two hemispheres, with the borders of the continents hand-colored. This map contains 14 spherical diagrams of the cosmos, portraying t... |
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| Description: | Metal astrolabe mounted on concrete base in Sid's backyard. The base is painted red with yellow Chinese characters, the Astrolabe is painted gold. In the ... |
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| Description: | Sid sitting backwards on a donkey, with a cigar in his mouth and wearing a hat. He is looking through what appears to be a pair of binoculars. Caption at t... |
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| Description: | John MacVane (left) and another man standing together in a field next to a military vehicle. They are both wearing military garb, including long coats and ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of The Gang at Camp 2. From left to right are: an unidentified man, Carl (who appears to be holding binoculars), Bill, Howard T., and Char... |
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