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| Description: | Big Bear (a Ho-Chunk Man) sitting on the ground in front of Diamond Grotto. |
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| Description: | View of Narrows from Black Hawk's Leap. Graffiti on rocks reads: "Leroy Gates, Dells River Pilot 1849 to 1858." |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Devil's Post Office, Mirror Lake. Miriam Bennett is inside of the Devil's Post Office looking out. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Group watching a University of Wisconsin football game (?) from a fence. Most are sitting on top, a few are standing and two men are peeking through the fe... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Graffiti on an advertisement for the Plaza Theatre which reads, "They Must Die." |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A man in the foreground walks past a wire fence with plywood at the construction site. A sign in the background reads, "Marchi for Mayor," and the portion ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Graffiti on a green door reads, "Kuken was here." A Miller beer bottle is on the doorstep. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Two different messages on a wall. One says: "Use Soap" and the other "Towey T..." In addition a small sign reads: "Marchi Makes Sense!" |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | In red and black spray paint, two different messages are visible on the side of a building. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A drawing of a man on the side of a building, perhaps the remains of a poster. On the left is an orange spray painted area. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a handmade sign reading: "Baehm Paper Co. moved to 53 Murray St. Four blocks north, 212 CO-7 1893." Someone has added a graffiti swastika on th... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Library under construction on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. In the background is the State Historical Society, and Science Hall is in the upp... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a woman standing in the Devil's Doorway above Devil's Lake. There is graffiti on the rocks. |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | Close-up of 1946 cast list preserved on a backstage wall of the Stoughton Opera House. |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | Backstage graffiti at the Independent Opera House naming participants in plays performed in 1936 and 1937. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A boy looking through a pay binocular stand in Battery Park. Graffiti makes the device seem to smile and young trees grow in the background. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a graffiti painted wall that reads, "Pill" and "Only Revolution Ends War!" framed by hammer and sickles. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a wall with graffiti showing a hand-made poster that reads, "O Happy State when souls each other draw, When Love is Liberty and Nature Law." B... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a weathered stone facade with a framed sign that reads, "Mobilization for Youth, Youth Work Center, Centro de Trabajo Para Jovenes (16 a 21 ano... |
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