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Car Wreck, Sun Prairie Road

Date: 08 03 1934
Description: View down road towards a group of people looking at an overturned automobile belonging to Fred Swanson. Fred and Norma Swanson, Dorothy Thompson, Edward an...
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Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen McCabe

Date: 1954
Description: Mary Ellen McCabe, the Alice in Dairyland from Ladysmith, views a billboard announcing the stock car races scheduled for the Wisconsin State Fair during Au...
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Westgate Parking Lot

Date: 07 30 1960
Description: Elevated view of the parking lot at the Westgate Shopping Center. The storefronts are on the left, and include Ragatz Shoes, Three Sisters, ?obil Shoes, S....
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Billboards on Water Street

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Description: Billboards with advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. Bridge visible to the left. The J.J. McGillivra...
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Sign for Lost Canyon

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Description: Sign for Lost Canyon, with people standing near a car in the foreground.
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Striking Sugar Workers

Date: 1955
Description: Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u...
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Coney Island

Date: 1969
Description: The Thunderbolt Roller Coaster at Coney Island.
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Janesville's Milwaukee Street looking east from the Bridge

Date: 1919
Description: Street scene with pedestrians near Milwaukee Street bridge. The Hotel Myers is in the background. The Lappin-Hayes Block is seen to the right of the Myer...
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Women Wearing Hats on Street

Date: 1910
Description: Four young women are walking down a city street across cable car tracks wearing coats and very large hats. Two of the women have fur muffs on their hands, ...
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Women Wearing Hats Walking on Sidewalk

Date: 1912
Description: Young women carrying purses and wearing very large hats are walking down a sidewalk. A person on the left is holding an umbrella, and one woman is holding ...
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Dining Tent

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Description: The Trinity M.E. Church Dining Hall set in a tent in a field near other tents. Two banners advertise the dining hall, and a chalkboard on the right lists t...
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Group Portrait with Automobile

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Description: A group portrait taken next to an automobile, consisting of a woman (probably Alma Reinhardt Taylor) with her hand on the car, one boy (probably Fred Taylo...
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Mark Harmon at Old World Wisconsin

Date: 1990
Description: Actor Mark Harmon on the set at Old World Wisconsin. Harmon starred in the lead role in the made-for-TV movie "Dillinger". Cinematographer Donald M. Morgan...
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Outdoor Billboard Promoting Dairy Products

Date: 1940
Description: Outdoor advertising billboard rendered from a photograph of Iva Kearney of Ithaca, Wisconsin, holding a glass of milk in her hand.
Poster

Let's All Work - Not Wait for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 10, "Girl War Worker." The poster features a young woman wearing overalls and protective gloves with her hair bound back...
Poster

Let's All Work - Not Wait for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 11, "Grandma." The poster features a smiling older matronly woman in a worker's uniform with goggles on her head holding...
Poster

Victory Gardens ..More for Them ..More for You

Date: 1944
Description: War Food Administration Design No. 5, "Victory Garden." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left in muted colors, and...
Poster

"He'll Be Home Sooner... Now You've Joined the WAVES"

Date: 1944
Description: WAVES Unnumbered Design, "Mother and Daughter." The poster features a proud mother with her arm around her daughter, who is in naval uniform. In the backgr...
Poster

"...For Your Security and Mine!" - Buy and Hold War Bonds

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design, title and number unknown. The poster features the profiles of Uncle Sam, a man, a woman, and a child arranged along the left border and fa...
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Plan Now for the Bigger 7th War Loan - Through Pay-Roll Savings

Date: 1945
Description: Treasury Design, unknown title and number. The poster features a crowd of civilians lined up in a V-formation and waving cash in the air.

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