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Steam Tractor with Sod-breaking Plows

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Description: Two men are posing standing on a steam tractor on the right, probably a Linnell, attached to sod-breaking plows steered by two men on the left. Behind them...
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Employees at Office Christmas Party

Date: 12 1928
Description: International Harvester employees standing around a Christmas tree and Santa Claus during an office party. Many of the workers are wearing party hats and s...
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McKay Nursery

Date: 05 12 1937
Description: Elevated view of a group of employees standing beside nursery stock inside the McKay Nursery warehouse.
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Theater Ushers

Date: 09 07 1930
Description: Group portrait of Capitol Theatre and Orpheum Theater ushers.
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Capitol Theatre and Orpheum Theater Ushers

Date: 09 07 1930
Description: Group portrait of Capitol Theatre and Orpheum Theater ushers.
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Air-Lec Doors

Date: 06 15 1927
Description: Schoelkopf Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of Air-Lec power door operators. The doors are in an open position, view from indoors looking out towards t...
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Assembly Work

Date: 1950
Description: A woman looks over parts used as bases for miniature Christmas trees.
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Tinsel Trees

Date: 1950
Description: A woman fashions a miniature hand-made metallic tree, while tables full of others await packing and shipment for the Christmas holidays.
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Nurse's Aid and Infant by Christmas Tree

Date: 11 21 1944
Description: Mrs. Margaret Horstmeier, nurse's aide at Methodist Hospital, shows a Christmas tree ornament to infant John Monegar.
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Madison Dye Works Party

Date: 12 20 1947
Description: Group portrait of men and women at the Madison Dye Works party. Included in the portrait on the left is an accordion player. One man sitting on the floor ...
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Yule Collections

Date: 12 23 1948
Description: Dorothy Blank receiving donated money for the Empty Stocking Club from newspaper carrier boy Gordon Schaaf in front of a Christmas tree.
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Bob Allen in Wisconsin National Guard Uniform

Date: 1922
Description: Journalist Robert S. Allen, center, in military uniform, poses with the staff of the "Wisconsin State Journal". A graduate of the Wisconsin Journalism Scho...
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Bublitz's — Interior

Date: 12 29 2006
Description: "Andrea was our waitress at Bublitz's Pub and Restaurant in Saukville."
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Selling Peaches

Date: 1923
Description: A customer offers payment for fruit to a woman sitting at a small desk inside an orchard shed. Multiple rows of bushel baskets filled with peaches are line...
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Selling Peaches at the Shed

Date: 09 1923
Description: Men looking through baskets of peaches in an open shed, where fruit was sold by the bushel. Others stand nearby. Original caption reads: "Selling peaches a...
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Herb & Katherine Jacobs

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Description: Journalist Herb Jacobs and his wife Katherine standing in the window of Jacobs II, the second home that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for them.
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Large Group of People Posing Outdoors

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Description: View down slope towards a large group of men, women, and children posing sitting and standing in a wooded field in front of a traveling photographer's wago...
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Four Lakes Secretary's Association

Date: 12 17 1957
Description: Group portrait of three past presidents of the Four Lakes Secretary's Association at a holiday dinner party. They include Paige Hampton, Marion Dengel, and...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 132-138

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Description: As though the tree inclined lacked discipline, pruned of its working part
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 359-369

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Description: Everybody was wonderful

Stars kept rising, pink and gold
Trailing threads of breathless music
barely out of reach
Hand to hand around the n...

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