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Sun Prairie Freshman Class

Date: 1914
Description: Group portrait of the 1914 Sun Prairie freshman class. Included in the group is Bill Droster, grandfather of the donor of this image.
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Happy Holidays

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Description: Color photographic holiday card from Governor and Mrs. Earl and family, governor of Wisconsin, 1983-1987. To the right it reads: "Happy Holidays" with "The...
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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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4th Ward Students

Date: 1884
Description: Class picture of the fourth ward pupils of Madison. 1. Caroline Young, 2. Belle Griffiths 3. Carrie Kohner 4. Irma Kleinpell 5. Annie McConnell 6. Matie Ja...
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Office Skills Class

Date: 1978
Description: Business and Office Skills Class at Tomahawk High School. Nine students work at their typewriters.
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Aldo Leopold as a Young Man

Date: 1904
Description: Aldo Leopold standing in a boat with a group of young people. He is wearing pants, a shirt and a bow tie. Buildings can be seen on the shoreline in the bac...
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Crowd of People Viewing the Liberty Bell

Date: 1976
Description: A crowd gathered around the Liberty Bell.
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Girl with Guitar

Date: 1935
Description: Arlene Elmer, 14, poses outside the Farmer's Grove School with a guitar. On the reverse of the photograph is written "This pupil is leader in plays and gam...
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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...
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Jean Emily Dyer Reese

Date: 1944
Description: Outdoor full-length portrait of Jean Emily Dyer (Reese) in her prom dress with a corsage. She is posed on stone steps with the train of her gown spread out...
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Studio Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified family. A man and woman are posing with a young girl and boy, and an older girl and boy. ...
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In Front of the Eugene Hotel

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Description: Four young women wearing dresses are posing while sitting on the hood of an automobile parked at the curb in front (south side) of the Eugene Hotel. A boy ...
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Group Portrait at High School Graduation

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Description: Group portrait of five people at a high school graduation. The graduate is wearing a blanket with a Native American motif draped over one of her shoulders,...
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Woman Shaking Her Fist at School Bus

Date: 1975
Description: A woman in a crowd shaking her fist at a school bus. The bus is carrying minority students to another high school as part of a school integration program. ...
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Raising a Fist

Date: 1975
Description: A school boy is raising a fist for the photographer while sitting with a group of his friends. Handwritten caption on the reverse: "These boys asked us to ...
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Injured on the School Bus

Date: 1975
Description: Caption on the reverse reads: "Linda Crump — girl on left, a student who was hit by a rock in her bus on the way out of S. Boston." Two girls and a young...
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Waiting to Be Bused to South Boston High School

Date: 1975
Description: Students from Columbia Point waiting to be bused to South Boston High School. Most of the students are standing in groups, talking. School buses are parked...
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Students at South Boston High School

Date: 1975
Description: Students and three adults on standing on the steps at an entrance to South Boston High School.
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Sunday Paper

Date: 1934
Description: The photographer's three children, from left, Herbert E., Philip, and Barbara Brumder reading newspapers while sitting on the newly constructed screened po...
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At the Boathouse

Date: 1935
Description: The three children of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder posing in front of the original boathouse of Villa Henrietta on Pine Lake. They are, from left,...

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