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| Date: | 09 26 1951 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal sports columnist, Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin and "character about town" relaxes on a park bench. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View towards a man operating a Farmall 140 tractor with an attached cultivator in a field. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Frank Hess Sr., owner of Hess Cooperage, trimming cattails, used to cauk oak barrels. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Headquarters building for truck testing at International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by International H... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man sitting in an International truck owned by the El Paso Hotel Supply Company along the side of the road near a park. The text on the side of the truck... |
| Date: | 08 12 1952 |
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| Description: | Roundy Coughlin accepts a dollar from a boy, probably for his Fun Fund. |
| Date: | 08 12 1952 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of two children, a man, and a woman with Roundy Coughlin. |
| Date: | 05 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Yvonne Egstad of Middleton takes a picture of two Sauk City fellow campers, Mary Jane Dickerson (left) and Anita Meyer. They were participating in the seve... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | "Guelig Construction workers put in a disposal system for Widmer Cheese Factory. Workers are from left, Ray Guelig, Herb Sellnow, Bob Guelig, Edgar Guelig,... |
| Date: | 04 13 1953 |
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| Description: | Disney film crew filming a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A camer... |
| Date: | 04 13 1953 |
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| Description: | Disney film crew shooting a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A came... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright's desk and chair facing a window at Taliesin. |
| Date: | 04 24 1957 |
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| Description: | Bulldozers and steam shovels prepare the site for the future University of Wisconsin Observatory site near Pine Bluff. |
| Date: | 07 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Cemetery caretaker M.F. Chapman points to an undeveloped area west of the veterans' section at Forest Hill Cemetery that has become filled with wood debris... |
| Date: | 11 20 1953 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the carport of the J. Dresser dome home at 5126 Tomahawk Trail. The house is also known as the Thomas A. and Stacy H. Littrell House, the ... |
| Date: | 11 20 1953 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the carport of the J. Dresser dome home at 5126 Tomahawk Trail. The house is also known as the Thomas A. and Stacy H. Littrell House, the ... |
| Date: | 09 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Tony Juisto (left), bell captain at Hotel Loraine, giving instructions to three university students working part-time as bellboys. Standin... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View towards man using a TD-24 to pull a stump. Mountains are in the background. Subject: "TD-24 — Lumbering." Where Taken: "Pac." Information with photogr... |
| Date: | 12 10 1958 |
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| Description: | Harold Hayes, zoo director, and veterinarian Dr. A.M. McDonald discuss findings shown under the microscope at the Henry Vilas Zoo. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Lawrence Sherman sitting in a chair by the window, reading the paper in his farm kitchen. On the left is a Jungers Model E stove with kettles and a teapot.... |
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