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| Date: | 08 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of six customers celebrating Bootleg Days at Arthur Janik's tavern "The Balcony Inn" at Lincoln and 33rd Streets. Arthur Janik was the propri... |
| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of bar and crowd in Fauerbach Brewing Co. tavern at 651 Williamson Street, celebrating the end of Prohibition. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh... |
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| Description: | Lumberjacks eating in a cook shanty; probably early twentieth century. |
| Date: | 08 27 1980 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a man mowing the lawn at the Veterans' Administration Wood National Cemetery. |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Fred Boyle, clerk at the post office, looks overwhelmed surrounded by a mountain of Christmas parcels to be sorted for shipment overseas to men and women i... |
| Date: | 07 07 1983 |
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| Description: | John Fitzsimmons and Barton Voegeli take a break from discing the fields to eat the birthday cake that Voegeli's wife made to celebrate the occasion. |
| Date: | 07 04 1869 |
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| Description: | The Camilla, a wood-burning locomotive that belonged to the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. The locomotive is decorated for the 4th of July, 1869. |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | The Kern family, Edna, Nancy, Ernest, and Maribeth, at the supper table. |
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| Description: | A group of Maine commercial fishermen having lunch on a dock. |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Fair employees use a crane to position a version of the Forward statue that was the symbol of the 1948 Wisconsin Centennial Exposition and State Fair. |
| Date: | 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Two girls, holding turkey feathers, are watching the production line at Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, where two women workers are plucking turkeys. |
| Date: | 11 1947 |
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| Description: | A worker at Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, is weighing a turkey as two girls are looking on. |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Clerk at the post office sorting Christmas parcels to be shiped overseas to men and women in service. |
| Date: | 05 28 1913 |
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| Description: | Power dam construction workers pausing during a meal in the camp dining room. Oil lamps are hanging from the ceiling; overhead electric lights are also ins... |
| Date: | 12 18 1947 |
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| Description: | Two postal employees of the Madison post office, 215 Monona Avenue, sorting heaps of packages in carts at Christmas. Pictured from left are clerks Fred Boy... |
| Date: | 12 18 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two postal employees sorting mail at the Madison post office, 215 Monona Avenue, at Christmas. Pictured are clerk Donald Memhard dumping ... |
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