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Date: | 1960 |
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Description: | Elevated view looking east from Lincoln Terrace on Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Lincoln Monument is in the foreground and... |
Date: | 08 04 1931 |
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Description: | Oscar Mayer refrigerated railroad freight car with "Oscar Mayer's Meats of Good Taste" advertisement on the side. |
Date: | 1933 |
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Description: | A posted sign reads: "George Washington Elms, From Mt. Vernon, VA to Mt. Vernon, WIS. Planted May 6th, 1916," at the Forest of Fame, consisting of trees gr... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Elevated exterior view of Yerkes Observatory. Geneva Lake is in the background, left. Roads and sidewalks cross the sweeping, well tended lawns. The desi... |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | A man is posing with his left hand resting on the trunk of the General Grant Giant Elm, S.E. of intersection of Green Bay and Good Hope Roads. At site of P... |
Date: | 1974 |
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Description: | Last elm tree on State Street being cut down. The Wisconsin Historical Society and the Memorial Union are in the background. |
Date: | 1932 |
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Description: | View from across street of the Washburn and Woodman Bank building, erected by C.C. Washburn and Cyrus Woodman. The bank was established in 1846 and operate... |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | A group of African American students participating in a Freedom School class outdoors during Freedom Summer. The class, which was held on Tougaloo College ... |
Date: | 1904 |
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Description: | Jean Nicolet (1598-1642) was the first European to see Wisconsin and was a prominent French explorer who, for many years, lived among the Indians of Quebec... |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | Families gathered in front of large tents at a Chautauqua meeting. |
Date: | 1943 |
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Description: | Elevated view of two men harvesting hemp using a McCormick Farmall H tractor and hemp binder No.2. In the background are houses among trees. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the Krueger family husking corn. From right to left are: Mary, Sarah, August, Florentina, and Jennie Krueger. A dog is lying on the ground... |
Date: | 07 15 1961 |
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Description: | Bart Starr of the Green Bay Packers receives a new 1961 Ford Falcon from a Green Bay Ford dealer. The compact Falcon was introduced by Ford in 1959 to appe... |
Date: | 1972 |
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Description: | A crowd of anti-Vietnam war demonstrators march down Wisconsin Avenue with signs and banners. One banner reads: "Stop the Bombing. Sign the Treaty Now! U.S... |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, motoring in the country in a Crosley car. Another car is behind them. |
Date: | 02 27 1904 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the third Wisconsin State Capitol ablaze. |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | Father James Groppi (1930-) and school desegregation demonstrators marching in. Milwaukee holding signs that read "Stop School Segregation" |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Loggers using pulley to top load logs on horse-drawn bob sled. |
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