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| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | This is a family photograph of Nels Wickstrom with his wife Anna (born Anna Stoel) and their children in front of their log home. The oldest child, wearing... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Two women playing tennis at Coole Park Manor on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Hull, Elizabeth Baker, and Elizabeth Nisbet standing at the tennis court net at Coole Park Manor. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Four men and three women posing on Hull's tennis court. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group of five people, (includes Jesse Stone, Mrs. Abernathy, A.G. Hull, Leo Capser, and Captain Angus) standing in front of Cedar Bark Lodge on Hermit Isla... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Woman standing on soldier's rock on Madeline Island. |
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| Description: | The World's First Typist, Lillian Sholes, daughter of Christopher Sholes, who invented the first successful typewriter. It was during Mr. Sholes' residence... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F... |
| Date: | 08 12 1948 |
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| Description: | One of the many demonstrations organized by the People's Progressive Party in Milwaukee to fight the ever-rising cost of living. The campaign includes the ... |
| Date: | 09 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The 6th Ward Contingent represented a community on the march. Black men, women and children from the CIO and AF of L, from small business, brought a messa... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A class of girls learn how to set a table in domestic science class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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| Description: | Bernice Robinson with students at first citizenship school at Johns Island. |
| Date: | 12 28 1923 |
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| Description: | Likely a 1923 Goldwyn production Red Lights publicity portrait of Dagmar Godowsky wearing a beaded headdress. |
| Date: | 07 19 1946 |
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| Description: | Young demonstrators at the CIO's "Don't Buy a Depression" rally. |
| Date: | 12 13 1947 |
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| Description: | Children of members of Local 75, United Automobile Workers (Seaman Body Company) performing at the union Christmas party. There are accordion players and a... |
| Date: | 12 20 1947 |
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| Description: | Members of Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation) at a holiday costume party. |
| Date: | 11 08 1947 |
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| Description: | Prize winners at a costume dance sponsored by Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation). |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | John J. Suhr residence at 121 Langdon Street, designed by City Engineer and architect Captain John Nadar. Built in 1886 for immigrant John J. Suhr, Sr. (18... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | From left to right Ida Fisk, Dorothy Purchas (b. 1891), Emma (Thorsen) Purchas (1862-1944), and Ethelinda (Thorsen) Johnston (1856-1947) of Milwaukee, Wisc... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of fifteen women gathered around three tables behind a home, probably the DMC Club, an exclusive social and sewing society named for an imported bran... |
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