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Electric Hair

Date: 01 10 1966
Description: Gail Lukas' hair stands on end when she places her hand on a Van de Graalf generator in a demonstration by the Atomic Energy Commission for junior high sch...
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Vegetable Display, Milwaukee County 4-H Fair

Date: 07 24 1983
Description: Tammy Meiller, 16, of the Blue Eagles 4-H Club, looks over a display of vegetables in the Milwaukee County 4-H Fair at the Mayfair Mall Shopping Center.
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Skill and Safety Class

Date: 10 15 1966
Description: Instructor George Finco (right) teaches skill and safety to students Michael Edler (left) and Jeff Zinuticz in the Custer High School foundry.
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Ethelinda Thorsen (later Johnston)

Date: 1872
Description: Head and shoulders carte-de-visite of Ethelinda Marie Thorsen (1856-1947), age 16, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, daughter of John Thorsen (b. 1820), a lumberman...
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Herold Team of the Milwaukee Turners

Date: 09 21 1886
Description: Twenty-seven young men and George Brosius posing outdoors with sporting equipment. The young men are dressed in short sleeved shirts and pants (possibly an...
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School for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf

Date: 1885
Description: Formal group portrait of the students attending the Milwaukee Day School for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf. The first public day school for the deaf, es...
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Barbara Brumder

Date: 1931
Description: Thirteen-year-old Barbara Brumder posing standing with her left hand resting on the mantel of the fireplace in the living room of the family home at 2030 E...
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Trimming the Tree

Date: 1932
Description: The children of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder, from left, Herbert E., Philip, and Barbara putting decorations on an electrically lighted Christmas ...
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Christmas 1933

Date: 12 25 1933
Description: The three children of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder, from left, Barbara, Herbert E. and Philip, posing standing in the living room of the family ho...
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Christmas 1935

Date: 12 1935
Description: Barbara Brumder, standing center, is modeling a furry hood and is resting her left hand on her mother Margaret's head. Philip Brumder is standing at left; ...

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