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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Eskimo duck dance to celebrate the spring hunt. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison students clash with riot police during campus demonstration to protest Dow Chemical involvement in the Vietnam conflict. He... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | "Battle of Chickamauga," an oil painting depicting a dramatic moment in the Battle of Chickamauga, painted by Alfred Thorsen after the lithograph. "Charge ... |
| Date: | 05 18 1933 |
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| Description: | The Battle of Durham Hill during the milk strike, showing sheriff's deputies and National Guardsmen (sworn in as special deputies) charging farmers with ba... |
| Date: | 12 13 1917 |
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| Description: | A color cartoon depicting Robert M. La Follette, Sr. as pro-German, showing Kaiser pinning medals on him. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the Winnebago attack on the Gagnier homestead in 1827 and the killing of Registre Gagnier. The homestead w... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Poster for International Harvester dealerships promoting the collection of scrap metal for use in war production. Features caricatures of Adolf Hitler and ... |
| Date: | 04 25 1953 |
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| Description: | A mushroom cloud from possibly Yucca Flats, Nevada where there was a nuclear bomb test. |
| Date: | 02 12 1963 |
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| Description: | Six members of the same family form the complete cast of a library playhouse production that was to be televised. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A group of people dressed up in medieval-style clothing. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Marine Captain Joseph R. McCarthy, later a Wisconsin senator, posing as a tail gunner during World War II in Douglas SBD Bomber. McCarthy was an intelligen... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Soldiers firing rockets from two International M-2-4 launch vehicles during combat operations in Iwo Jima. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Street intersection with a crowd and police. Tear gas is spreading across the road. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | "Doomed Demons" by Eustace L. Adams, part of the Air Combat Stories for Boys series published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1932 and 1946. The cover art is b... |
| Date: | 04 15 1953 |
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| Description: | Infantry troops of the 8th Army preparing to board a Bell UH-1D helicopter of the 6th Transportation Helicopter Company for transport to the front. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin Air National Guard F-89 Scorpion at Truax Field. Armaments for this fighter included two air-to-air rockets capable of being armed with nuclear... |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | A woman holds the monster knife and its sheath. Giant knife presented to John Fox Potter by Missouri Republicans after Potter's threatened duel with a Virg... |
| Date: | 09 07 1944 |
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| Description: | H.S. Manchester's, Inc., window display promoting saving paper. Shows fake bomb falling on various ammunition with slogans that read: "Get in the Scrap," "... |
| Date: | 08 25 1941 |
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| Description: | Stan Cutler's Bar X Tavern interior, 123 East Main Street, the bar and booths have a Western theme. |
| Date: | 04 01 1941 |
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| Description: | Interior of Dutch Tavern, back bar, 121 North Blount Street. |
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