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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Great Hall with skylight in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union. A piano is onstage on the left. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna, seated together reading in a bedroom at Taliesin. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Five Wisconsin men who fought in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. This was in Albacete, Spain. From left to right standing are: Fred P... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Posed portrait of Wisconsin man John Cookson wearing a helmet and holding a radio headset to his ear. This was during the Spanish Civil War. |
| Date: | 11 17 1932 |
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| Description: | The Madison Civic Orchestra poses onstage after the Parkway concert. |
| Date: | 10 29 1932 |
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| Description: | Esther Johnson wearing a Halloween costume and big-nosed mask, and holding the Jack-o-Lantern that for the Capital Times "Schnozzle" parade in honor... |
| Date: | 09 17 1931 |
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| Description: | View down East Wilson Street from the corner of King Street. The Union Transfer Building is on the right hand side at 155-303 East Wilson Street, Rubin's F... |
| Date: | 01 28 1932 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip La Follette signing Wisconsin's pioneer unemployment compensation law. From left to right are Henry Ohl, Elizabeth Brandeis, Paul A. Raushe... |
| Date: | 02 05 1930 |
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| Description: | View from across the street of the Capitol Theatre tower. "Love Parade" is advertised on the marquee. Three automobiles are in the street in front of Peopl... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | The first tractor model produced by International Harvester. These early models were friction-drive trucks with an IH "Famous" engine added on to supply po... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt in a scene from "Reunion in Vienna." |
| Date: | 04 21 1935 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from the street of The Hotel Washington, 636 West Washington Avenue, with two cars parked in front. |
| Date: | 07 02 1936 |
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| Description: | A view of the Licari Tire Company, 767 West Washington, with a Phillips sign in the foreground, and a Gillette Tire Company sign with the company's slogan:... |
| Date: | 10 28 1931 |
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| Description: | An Indian unit being developed in the 2B classroom at Dudgeon School. A teepee is standing in front of the class. |
| Date: | 10 10 1931 |
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| Description: | Exterior front view of the model house at 2318 Monroe Street. Ralph H. Wood was the contractor from the design firm of Balch and Lippert, Madison architect... |
| Date: | 07 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Capital Times model home under construction at 2318 Monroe Street. |
| Date: | 10 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Special school children at Hawthorne School posing with their industrial artwork at the front of the classroom. |
| Date: | 02 21 1930 |
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| Description: | Chanticleer Orchestra managers, each with a dog at his side, sitting on the front steps of a building with an awning overhead that reads "Chanticleer." |
| Date: | 04 15 1932 |
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| Description: | Comedians Ole Olsen and "Chic" Johnson, called "the mirth provokers of a nation," posing in front of a streetcar that displays an advertisement for their "... |
| 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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