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| Date: | 06 12 1931 |
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| Description: | The letterhead stationery of a Racine economic development committee reads: "Air City, Where the Air-Minded Live," The design shows airplanes and even a... |
| Date: | 08 17 1923 |
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| Description: | "No flight, no pay." The informal contract between J.A. Smith of Neenah and Roy Larson of Larsen, Wisconsin. Roy Larson established a rural airport in Lar... |
| Date: | 08 28 1960 |
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| Description: | An insurance executive carries on with work after he was hit by a car, dictating letters to his secretary from his hospital bed, with his leg in traction. |
| Date: | 09 26 1935 |
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| Description: | Rev. Edwin O. Kennedy sitting at a desk writing a letter, Christ Presbyterian Church, 124 Wisconsin Avenue. There is a telephone on the desk, and books are... |
| Date: | 12 09 1930 |
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| Description: | WIBA "Mystic Myrah and Lorenz," seers, reading mail from listeners in the Fern room. Patrick Shannon from WIBA, observing. |
| Date: | 01 12 1844 |
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| Description: | Letter from Thomas Steel, Waukesha County physician and farmer, to his father, James Steel, in London, England. It includes a hand-drawn map of Milwaukee C... |
| Date: | 12 06 1952 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin band members and Alumni Association workers stuff letters addressed to Badger alumni asking them to help send the band to the Rose ... |
| Date: | 01 04 1862 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the city of Superior and Lake Superior, also depicting railroad piers, Minnesota Point, and the steamboat "Star". The engraving appears on a l... |
| Date: | 04 13 1849 |
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| Description: | A letter written by William Warren to his cousin George Warren. |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Private William Huneke and Sargeant Harold Gleaves checking in a stack of mail from soldiers and sailors at the fighting fronts of the world for the United... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Handwritten letter of Lucius Fairchild from the Madison Watercure detailing his experiences there. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Map of Madison and surrounding communities, referred to as the four lakes country. Text bordering the map includes an excerpt of a letter written by Horace... |
| Date: | 11 15 1944 |
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| Description: | Madison Vocational School commercial department students stuffing Christmas seals into envelopes to be sent to Madison residents. |
| Date: | 10 15 1944 |
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| Description: | Madison Vocational School commercial department students stuffing Christmas seals into envelopes to be sent to Madison residents. |
| Date: | 12 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Mrs. R.S. Briggs, postal clerk, with Christmas cards and packages. |
| Date: | 03 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Roger Mott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Mott, 20 Lathrop Street, holding a letter he received from General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines. Roger, ... |
| Date: | 04 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Margaret Smith, secretary of the Madison and Wisconsin Foundation, surveys a few of the letters received from servicemen who trained in Madison and plan to... |
| Date: | 06 06 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Aline W. Hazard, mother of Pfc. William R. Hazard, holding a letter from her son written on personal stationery of Adolph Hitler. He was with the firs... |
| Date: | 07 12 1865 |
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| Description: | A letter written by Wisconsin Governor James T. Lewis to E.G. Ayer of Harvard, Illinois, thanking him for his special care of and attention to sick and wou... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Letter on stationery featuring an engraving of an exterior view of the Milwaukee House showing horse-drawn vehicles and people standing on the sidewalk in ... |
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