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| Date: | 02 21 1882 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph poster advertising a Milwaukee Mardi Gras celebration, arranged by the Turnverein and Milwaukee Musical Societies, and held at the Exposit... |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Young children reading at the library. A librarian works near the circulation desk in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
| Date: | 03 24 1969 |
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| Description: | Young woman at work designing a magazine cover. |
| Date: | 04 25 1964 |
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| Description: | A book sale is held by the Mothers Association of Milwaukee-Downer Seminary. |
| Date: | 11 15 1955 |
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| Description: | All seven siblings in the Marnell family lining up for their polio inoculations. |
| Date: | 07 15 1987 |
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| Description: | A woman finishes a display of Bay View High School photographs from the 1950s as part of an any-year reunion at the Festa Italiana on the Summerfest ground... |
| Date: | 05 14 1987 |
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| Description: | A couple holds hands and reads together while sitting on a bench. |
| Date: | 02 18 1959 |
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| Description: | Language teachers listening to foreign languages on tape decks at an institute for public school language teachers at Mount Mary College. |
| Date: | 10 24 1984 |
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| Description: | Walter Mondale campaigns for president in 1984 during his failed run against Ronald Reagan. |
| Date: | 08 06 1963 |
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| Description: | A mother reads stories on her front steps to children from around the block. |
| Date: | 09 10 1963 |
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| Description: | Three freshman students inspect a skeleton at the Marquette University medical school. |
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| Description: | A woman dressed to play golf smiles as a bucket of golf balls is spilled at her feet. This is one of several demonstrations of strobe light functions at F... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Fair-goers stand in line to enter the W.P.A. Exhibit tent at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 09 02 1931 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette, the younger son of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing a crowd in the grandstand at the Wisconsin State Fair in ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Rear view of Robert Taylor's car, which he used for his work as the Milwaukee Journal's first photographer. A sign displayed across the spare tire r... |
| Date: | 07 29 1954 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., speaking into the microphone on the WLS stage at the Wisconsin State Fair. At the time the Chicago station was best known f... |
| Date: | 07 27 1953 |
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| Description: | A visitor to the Wisconsin State Fair is so curious about one entry in a display of rugs and textiles that she reaches through a protective barrier in orde... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Exhibit of Ideal Curlers at the Wisconsin State Fair, with a woman demonstrating how they were to be used for long hair. The advertising promises "no metal... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | Senator Gaylord Nelson signs an autograph for an admiring voter at an agricultural conference. |
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