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Donal Tormey and Franklin Conway with Motor Scooters

Date: 06 30 1949
Description: Donald Tormey, left, age 17, and Franklin Conway, age 16, with their motor scooters shortly after completing a 1,300 mile trip to Canada on the bikes.
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Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

Date: 07 1951
Description: 1950 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion Warren Slightam about to compete in an exhibition race at the 1951 Madison soap box derby on Gorham Street.
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Fishing Good at "Rustic Knoll"

Date: 06 1926
Description: A man poses holding a fish in both hands. Two boys wait at the service window of a log cabin.
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Old Stone House

Date: 
Description: View over fence of a family posing on the porch of a stone house. Text on photograph says: "Old Stone House Erected About 1800 for an Indian School."
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Side Main Street

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Description: Two boys, barefoot and in overalls, stand in the middle of the unpaved street. A boy on a fence and a man on a bicycle are near the curb. The shops on the ...
Photograph

Group of People with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1895
Description: A man with his back turned is posing on a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. On his left are four females, including a woman, one younger woman...
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Dane County Junior Fair and Horse Show

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Description: A group of teenagers lounge about on bales of hay in a barn at the Dane County Junior Fair and Horse Show. Cows are resting nearby on the right.
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School Class at Merrimac

Date: 1890
Description: A large class stands outside a school. Front row, left to right: Stella Nuzum, unknown, unknown, unknown, Mabel Devlin, Mary Devlin, unknown, Alice Odekirk...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: Summer 1942

Date: 1942
Description: Views of two different bike hosteling trips to Pine Bluff (Dane County) and Lake Mills (Jefferson County), sponsored by Neighborhood House, with girls rest...
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Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: Summer 1942 Pine Bluff Trip

Date: 1942
Description: Four participants (Mary Lou Ciulla, Annie Gambino, Bessie Parisi, and Vita Valenza) of a bike hosteling trip sponsored by Neighborhood House, resting on a ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Play School Outing

Date: 06 1938
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images of a spring outing taken by the Bluebirds? and the Orioles children's groups. Children are pl...
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Presenting the Key to Wade House

Date: 06 06 1953
Description: Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, presents the key to Wade House to Dr. William McKern, of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. The century-old stagecoach inn and...
Photograph

Students and Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: A group of students in South Boston are boycotting school to protest court-ordered desegregation busing. One boy is grabbing the head of an effigy of an Af...
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Students and Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: A group of students are boycotting school to protest court-ordered desegregation busing. Two boys are holding an effigy of an African-American man. In the ...
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Students Hanging Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: A group of children are hanging an effigy of an African-American man in a dead tree, creating a mock lynching. One of the boys is sitting on a limb of the ...
Photograph

Children Burning Hanging Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: Caption on the reverse reads: "Kids in S. Boston housing project burn the effigy of a black man." The mock-lynching was staged by a group of students in th...
Postcard

Entrance to High School

Date: 09 18 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Entrance to High School, Stoughton, Wis." Four teenage girls pose on the walk to the entrance of the High School, and more students a...
Postcard

Street Scene in West Lima

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Street Scene West-Lima, Wis." A group of six children, of various ages, pose in the middle of an unpaved street. An automobile and a ...
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Group Portrait of Male Students with Baseball Equipment at the Stanley McCormick School

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of nine boys posing outdoors. Some of them are wearing white shirts with lettering that reads: "S Mc S."

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