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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Homer Bigart, (1907-1991) award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times" with two unidentified individuals. |
| Date: | 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Wentworth Farmers' Cooperative Association store organized in 1919 by a group of Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish farmers. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting construction of the first Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1816. In the painting, several o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the surrender of Black Hawk at Fort Crawford in 1832. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the Winnebago attack on the Gagnier homestead in 1827 and the killing of Registre Gagnier. The homestead w... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | View of the Johnson Wax Research and Development Tower under construction. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An assembly clerk withdrawing the record of a vote from the automatic voting machine in the Assembly chamber. Madison, WI. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the west wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 02 04 1943 |
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| Description: | Six Chevrolet automobiles (possibly taxies) and 10 drivers holding pledge cards outside the side entrance to Friede Storage Garage (previously known as Pur... |
| Date: | 12 29 1947 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the White Cross Pharmacy Soda Fountain, 920 East Johnson Street. |
| Date: | 04 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Portrait of bride Arlene Tiedeman and groom Edward Jankowski, U.W. and Green Bay football star, and Lorraine Tiedeman, bride's maid and Charles Pasch, best... |
| Date: | 09 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Richard Ela Company, 744 Williamson Street, selling industrial and welding equipment and supplies and Hanley Implement Company, 740 Williamson Street, sell... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Local wrestler "Jimmy" Demetral poses flexing his muscles in front of a painting of himself. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, 17 South Fairchild Street. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Trempealeau County, south of Arcadia. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the last covered bridge in Wisconsin. Caption reads: "Covered Bridge Near Cedarburg, Wis." |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Milton Berle, dressed in a suit with a white neckscarf, is shown escorting his mother Sandra. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Stoughton druggist, O.N. Falk, sorts the mail with a smile. |
| Date: | 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Wisconsin Historical Society Pioneer Drugstore Exhibit. Pictured are several decorative showglobes, a leech jar, and shelves of variou... |
| Date: | 10 26 1945 |
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| Description: | The silver service, which was a gift of the State to the USS "Wisconsin," on display during the presentation ceremony. |
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