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| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View of a post tower at Fort Snelling. A tree partially obscures the tower. Flags are arrayed on the battlements and the number "1820" (the year fort const... |
| Date: | 12 27 1960 |
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| Description: | Post-Christmas shoppers exchanging or returning unwanted Christmas gifts crowd downtown Madison sidewalks. |
| Date: | 12 22 1960 |
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| Description: | Christmas gifts are collected around the State Capitol rotunda Christmas tree from state employees to give to developmentally disabled children staying in ... |
| Date: | 12 15 1960 |
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| Description: | U.W. Chadbourne Hall residents view a Christmas tree put up in the second floor lobby of the dormitory. The State Capitol is in the background. Shown (L-R)... |
| Date: | 12 01 1960 |
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| Description: | Three committee chairmen of the Truax Field Officers' Wives club during a tea for wives of a number of prominent Madison residents. They are, left to right... |
| Date: | 10 1960 |
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| Description: | A lighted smiling carved Jack-O-Lantern with a ghost figure behind. |
| Date: | 12 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Duane, Ann Denise, and Bruce Kirking gaze at the "family candles" on top of the melodeon which has been in Grandmother Bayles' family for six generations. ... |
| Date: | 11 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Laverne Kirking proudly smiles at his youngest son, baby Gale, and shows him part of the holiday decorations in the farm home. |
| Date: | 12 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Jean (Bayles) Kirking instructs three of her children, Duane, Ann, and Bruce in the technique of stringing popcorn and cranberries and paper chains to deco... |
| Date: | 12 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Composite photograph of Jimmy and Laurie Stein on a rocking horse. |
| Date: | 12 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Santa on a reindeer rocking horse. |
| Date: | 12 09 1958 |
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| Description: | Current First Lady of Wisconsin and wife of Governor Vernon W. Thomson, (right). gives a tour of the Governor's Mansion, 101 Cambridge Road, Maple Bluff, t... |
| Date: | 07 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Seven U.W. co-eds, candidates for queen of the summer prom, lined up on the railing of the Memorial Union terrace. Left to right: Mimi Graham, Moline, IL; ... |
| Date: | 05 20 1915 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "M.E. Church, Wautoma, Wis." A clapboard Methodist Episcopal Church on an unpaved street with a sidewalk and trees. It has an ornate s... |
| Date: | 02 01 1911 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Waupun Public Library, Waupun, Wis." A woman is posing on the sidewalk in front of the library, which was built in 1904 of cut stone ... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Entrance to Prison, Waupun, Wis." Main entrance of the Waupun State Prison, built in 1854. Beyond the prison gates is the tower of th... |
| Date: | 06 16 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Bethesda Spring, Waukesha, Wis." Bethesda Spring is located inside an ornate pavilion surrounded by trees. The Terrace Hotel can be s... |
| Date: | 03 21 1912 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "School House, Waukau." Six girls are posing on the front steps of a two-story, clapboard school house with a belfry. Two boys are on ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Douglas County Historical Museum, A.A. Roth Memorial, Superior, Wis." This home housed the Douglas County Museum from 1939 to 1963. T... |
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