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| Spanish Reale coin from the Alden's Corners Post Office Site in Dane County, Wisconsin. (Museum object #2002.211.8) |
| How a New Progressive Governor Repaired the Economy |
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| Read about Governor John J. Blaine's plan to deal with the Budget Deficit of 1921. |
| Discover the effects that the Panic of 1857 had on La Crosse. |
| The Rise and Fall of Private Currencies |
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| Discover the history of currency in Wisconsin, and how paper money led the state to adopt a new constitution in 1848. |
| The Capital's First Drunkard |
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| Read the story of Madison's first and most beloved drunkard, Pinneo. |
| Too Progressive for Wisconsin |
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| Discover why Wisconsin's 1846 was re-written and passed in 1848 |
| Date: | 01 25 1944 |
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| Description: | Soldiers play a crap game at an air base near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). |
| Date: | 12 09 1958 |
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| Description: | Mike Ubber of 526 Spruce Street, a worker at the Olin Avenue dump, saves a little money from his salvage business each year to donate to "Roundy's Fun Fund... |
| Date: | 04 23 1986 |
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| Description: | This image was captured during the re-enactment of a crime that took place at a convenience store on Tuesday, April 22nd, 1986. The killing of Andrew N. Ne... |
| Date: | 04 09 1959 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Madison Moose Lodge present a check to George Fess, right, president of the Madison Muscular Dystrophy Association. The money was raise... |
| Date: | 06 18 1959 |
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| Description: | Ralph Hult (left), president of Hult's Capital Garage, presents a $1,000 savings bond to George Grover (right), a mechanic who completed 40 years with the ... |
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| Description: | A working lifetime minted these good coins – every day devoted to circulating them through the same routine streets wore them thin into retirement |
| Date: | 10 01 1959 |
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| Description: | The Madison Sertoma Club presented a check for $100 to the National Foundation to aid polio patients. Dr. Robert Harmon, right, Dane County chapter emergen... |
| Date: | 07 1995 |
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| Description: | District Representative Dennis Bogenschneider is pictured presenting a check for $1,139.06 to Chuck Trauba, Theresa Ambulance Service Coordinator from Mode... |
| Date: | 02 25 1960 |
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| Description: | Thomas Hefty, right, treasurer of the United Cerebral Palsy Association Dane County chapter, presents a check to Dr. Lowell E. Hokin, a University of Wisco... |
| Date: | 10 06 1960 |
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| Description: | A $250 check is presented to Professor C.A. DeDeurwaeder, right, to help with a project aimed at the development of landscaping themes for parks. The grant... |
| Date: | 12 12 1960 |
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| Description: | Kimball Dyer, holding his daughter Meg, hands a check from the Madison Sports Car Club to Sally Hoeveler for the Wisconsin State Journal's on Empty ... |
| Date: | 12 19 1960 |
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| Description: | Catholic Bishop William O'Connor, right, accepts a $500 check from the Madison Diocesan Holy Name Union. From left to right are: F.M. Bosold, union preside... |
| Date: | 02 1961 |
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| Description: | Leo Lunenschloss, left, chairman of the board of the Security State Bank, holds a check for $3,876.71 representing money collected in the 1960 UNICEF drive... |
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