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Women Playing Basketball

Date: 1900
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison freshman women's basketball team in the gymnasium of Ladies Hall (now Chadbourne Hall). A man stands in the center holding ...
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Unkempt Bedroom with Children

Date: 03 1909
Description: A young boy and girl sitting on an iron bedstead in the corner of their unkempt bedroom.
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Labor Day Festival

Date: 09 06 1988
Description: A young girl listens to a speech at the Racine Laborfest. She holds a balloon imprinted with the slogan, "Buy Union Buy American."
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Julius Porter and Lucretia Wait

Date: 1909
Description: Julius Porter Wait and his wife, Lucretia Melvina (Mosher) Wait. He has a beard, and is sitting on a chair, wearing dark work clothes and tall, loose boots...
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Family Portrait

Date: 1941
Description: Copy of a family portrait that includes a father, daughter and three sons. Two people on the right are only partially visible.
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Manchester's, Inc., Footwear Department

Date: 09 24 1940
Description: Manchester's, Inc., Department Store, 2-6 East Mifflin Street. There are two mannequins wearing dresses and shoes at the entrance to Footwear Department, w...
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Court of Honor for President's Ball

Date: 01 16 1937
Description: Group portrait of eleven of the fifteen girls elected to the President's Birthday Ball, Queen's Court of Honor.
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Darling Shop Interior

Date: 10 12 1936
Description: Darling Shop, 9 E. Main Street, interior, showing women's coats and hats.
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Accordion and Guitar Players

Date: 03 11 1936
Description: Man playing accordion and man playing guitar at the Town Club Tavern, located at 2501 Sherman Avenue.
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David Barr

Date: 06 29 1933
Description: Portrait of David Barr, son of University of Wisconsin Tent Colony Mayor Glenn Barr, at age 10 months, standing beside a chair. Family from Miami Universit...
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Kate Schmedeman

Date: 09 23 1932
Description: Portrait of Kate Schmedeman, Mayor Albert G. Schmedeman's wife, sitting in a chair beside a fireplace reading a book in her home, 504 Wisconsin Avenue.
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Reri Trying Cinderella Cosmetics

Date: 07 25 1932
Description: Reri (Anne Chevalier), Tahitian star of the Fanchon and Marco "Tahiti" show at the Orpheum theater trying Cinderella cosmetics in her dressing room with Mr...
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Lois Kerl's Three Children

Date: 09 11 1931
Description: Portrait of Lois Kerl's three children: one daughter is sitting and holding a baby, and the second daughter is standing on the right in front of the firepl...
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Man with Baby

Date: 08 10 1931
Description: William Busse, humane officer, holding abandoned baby, Bobby LaBue (real name Bobby Yarborough of Spokane Washington).
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Lapham School Radio Room

Date: 04 29 1931
Description: Ben Park, sitting in a chair, is talking to all the classrooms in Lapham school through the radio microphone in the office of Shirley D. Almy, principal. T...
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Lillian Rice at Police Station

Date: 01 30 1931
Description: Lillian Rice (aka Loretta La Boze), 18 of Janesville, in man's clothing with police matron, Pearl Shaughnessy, at the Police Station. Lillian was arrested ...
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Miss America

Date: 10 06 1930
Description: Miss America, Margaret Ekdahl, standing in the Burdick & Murray department store modeling black pumps (shoes). Women are sitting in chairs behind her on th...
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Christmas Scene

Date: 12 28 1928
Description: A little girl posing in a living room with a Christmas tree, toys, and a doll she got for Christmas.
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Jennie Krueger Bruetzman and Tramp

Date: 12 1905
Description: Jennie Krueger sitting in a rocking chair on a porch holding her cat Tramp, who is dressed in baby clothes.
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Kruegers Playing with Toys

Date: 1900
Description: Jennie and Edgar Krueger (twins on right) and Effie Goetsch (Carr) playing with toys outdoors. Effie was the daughter of Ernest Samuel Goetsch and Anna Sch...

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