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Date: | 10 27 1915 |
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Description: | Four impoverished men hired by "The Medical Review of Reviews" carry signs with the eugenics slogans, "I am a burden to myself and the State. Should I be a... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Street parade rig, apparently to agitate against delays in construction of a railroad to connect Manitowoc to the west. In the background is a store owned ... |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | Parishioners gather at the entrance outside New Fellowship Church of God In Christ at North Eighth Street. |
Date: | 05 1960 |
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Description: | Two women serving coffee to customers at a coffee shop. Richland Center, Wisconsin. |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | A ticket collector for the Milwaukee Electric Railway is sitting at her station. |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | Woman worker wearing a butcher's apron, poses holding a ham, in a meat market with Easter ham display. |
Date: | 09 28 1942 |
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Description: | Highway billboard advertising Wisconsin cheese for the Department of Agriculture and Markets. |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | A traveling medicine wagon with saleswomen and vendor selling Westmore's Hair Tonic. |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | Vice President Richard M. Nixon waves his cowboy hat from the seat of an International 300 utility tractor. |
Date: | 07 1967 |
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Description: | Several young boys selling fruit drinks, penny candy, and snow cones to parched pedestrians. A city bus is in the background. |
Date: | 02 12 1984 |
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Description: | A man shows his cow in front of Penneys during an auction held at the Mid-Cities Mall. |
Date: | 02 1933 |
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Description: | Winter scene showing snow removal vehicles working to clear the snow on Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee after a winter blizzard. |
Date: | 07 1927 |
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Description: | Car parked underneath the entrance gate to the Island Resort at the Wisconsin Dells, 25 miles from the Dells on Highway 12-16 near Mauston. Entrance gate a... |
Date: | 10 27 1938 |
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Description: | AAA driver's training instructor with group of students, posing with dual control driver's education car, in front of Madison East High School. |
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Description: | Photographers demonstrating strobe light functions at Frank Scherschel's Strobe Research Lab. Frank Scherschel is in the back on the righthand side, wearin... |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | Three uniformed employees of the Sinclair Oil Company Service Station, located at 501 East Broadway, standing in front of the station's gas pumps. Two life... |
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Description: | Immigrants buying tickets at Ellis Island. |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Text on front reads: "Main Street Looking South, Lone Rock, Wis." Unpaved street with sidewalks, dwellings and buildings on both sides. Horse drawn vehicle... |
Date: | 08 28 1931 |
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Description: | Exterior view of Sweet's Food Shop, located at 354 West Main Street. |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | View down sidewalk along West Washington Avenue, looking toward the Capitol. A man is crossing the street and there is a car at the corner that has the wor... |
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