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| Date: | 02 21 1985 |
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| Description: | The Auer Avenue School's safety cadet team standing in front of the school building. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The business card of Waukesha photographer Warren O'Brien, a pioneer in aerial photography in Wisconsin. The illustration shows him sitting on the wing of ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Certificate issued to E.M. Griffith, the Wisconsin State Forester, so that Griffith could prove that he had flown at an altitude of 1600 feet in the "flyin... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | "Doomed Demons" by Eustace L. Adams, part of the Air Combat Stories for Boys series published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1932 and 1946. The cover art is b... |
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| Description: | Astronaut Charles M Duke, Jr., collecting lunar samples using a rake and tongs. This photograph was taken on the moon by John W. Young, the crew commander.... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A traveling display about the NASA manned space program on exhibit at Austin Straubel Airport. Included in the exhibit is a model of a space capsule and a ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of Christopher Columbus and hi... |
| Date: | 03 02 1934 |
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| Description: | A man in the camera room at the Wisconsin Engraving Co. plant, 109 S. Carroll Street, is making a halftone negative, the first step in making a photo engra... |
| Date: | 02 12 1934 |
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| Description: | Two men stand with the Capitol Oil Corporation display at the Madison Auto Show. The exhibit features "Tiolene Motor Oil," "Bowes Seal Fast," "Purol-Pep g... |
| Date: | 11 24 1933 |
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| Description: | Cedric Parker, Capital Times newsman, reads Time magazine while under the hair dryer at Mrs. Wengel's Marinello Shop, 125 State Street. Lucille Bump... |
| Date: | 10 09 1931 |
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| Description: | American Optical Co. exhibit of welding goggles, helmets and shields at the 2nd welding conference in the U.W. engineering building. |
| Date: | 08 03 1930 |
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| Description: | Mr. Trostle gets his brakes tested by a Weaver Automatic Brake Tester in the "Safety Lane" on Wisconsin Avenue, sponsored by the American Automobile Associ... |
| Date: | 02 04 1864 |
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| Description: | Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Diploma awarded to fire fighter James Richard Cummings for his service to Madison in 1869. The diploma is illustrated with scenes of fire fighting heroics,... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Front cover color illustration of an advertising brochure for International B-line, R-line, V-line and CO-line fire truck chassis. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Captain Joseph R. McCarthy, a Marine intelligence officer, interviewing pilots who have just returned from raids on Japanese installations in the Solomon I... |
| Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby champion, David Laverty of Mineral Point, posing with the plaque and his brother Larry who is a past champion. In the background is ... |
| Date: | 09 22 1946 |
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| Description: | Lisle Blackbourn Jr., former Milwaukee Washington high school star playing for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was awarded a trophy as the most outsta... |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi speaking through a megaphone from the hood of a bus. Groppi stands with Alderperson Vel Phillips. Several of the people in the assemble... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A group of construction workers gather to listen to a speaker near the office for the Sand Chapter of Mechanical Contractors at the construction site for t... |
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