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| 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: | 02 15 1957 |
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| Description: | John Fischer, age 11, demonstrates his invention, a "walking and talking" robot. The robot's eyes light up, and it rolls back and forth on a platform. |
| Date: | 10 30 1968 |
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| Description: | Three children, dressed up in homemade astronaut costumes for Halloween. One clever parent has made good use of a football helmet! |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Housing for employees of logging and lumber operations associated with International Harvester. The housing consists of small one-room shacks in a wooded a... |
| Date: | 10 17 1963 |
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| Description: | A librarian reads a children's book aloud to young boys and girls. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Children working and playing in a community garden at 38th and St. Louis streets. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Two boys at work indoors constructing the wooden frame of a fly trap at their school. |
| Date: | 04 1917 |
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| Description: | Children working in an urban community garden. Original caption reads: "Scene in Harrison Street Community Garden showing each plot staked off. Up to 1917 ... |
| Date: | 08 05 1927 |
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| Description: | Elephants drinking water from a wagon pulled by a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor outside a circus tent belonging to the Sells-Floto Circus. Circus wo... |
| Date: | 09 06 1988 |
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| Description: | A young girl listens to a speech at the Racine Laborfest. She holds a balloon imprinted with the slogan, "Buy Union Buy American." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two women and a young girl gathering vegetables in the Deering Works vegetable garden. Original caption reads: "This garden furnished a bountiful supply of... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A female snake charmer with the Cole Brothers Circus, watched by two children. |
| Date: | 11 10 1943 |
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| Description: | Office interior of the Madison News Agency, 446 West Gilman Street, taken from entrance. Employees are sitting in the room, and in the background a group o... |
| Date: | 09 09 1940 |
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| Description: | Boy and girl modeling Manchester's Department Store clothes at the Vilas Park drinking fountain. Included in sleeve is a separate negative overlay negative... |
| Date: | 06 16 1933 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of Capital Times newspaper carriers. |
| Date: | 10 14 1930 |
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| Description: | Eight children who were "School page" editors for the "Capital Times," and one adult, sitting around a table. |
| Date: | 07 15 1948 |
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| Description: | A Mexican woman and her six children are standing on the porch of the multiple-family housing provided to them by the pea cannery for which their husband a... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. The illustration portrays a little girl being frightened by a little boy. The girl ... |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Mable Sawtelle, a Red Cross nurses' aide, tends to baby Sara in a crib with doll. Poster on wall reads: "Rollier demonstrated the value of heliotherapy in ... |
| Date: | 03 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated group portrait of Governor Goodland signing a scrapbook prepared by the Little Friends of America, Baraboo children's organization, for t... |
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