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| Information on over 7,000 photographers who were active in Wisconsin from about 1840 to 1976. |
| Date: | 12 10 1951 |
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| Description: | Peshtigo Fire Cemetery marker, shown on the site. |
| Date: | 11 14 1958 |
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| Description: | Ronald E. Johnson of Mount Sterling, with world champion cheddar cheese at the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association Contest. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association Contest winners Evan Appleman, Carl Huber, Fred Beuer, and Werner Zimmerman, Jr. posing with their entries. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of a farmer filling a red International Harvester L-120 truck with pumpkins. |
| Date: | 09 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Dedication of Wisconsin's first expressway, a seven-mile stretch of Interstate Highway I-94 in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Presiding at the ribbon-cutting ... |
| Date: | 10 1959 |
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| Description: | Moving a very large boulder with a bulldozer during construction of Highway 94 in Waukesha County. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a North Central Airlines DC-3 airplane flying over the Madison isthmus. Clearly visible are the Wisconsin State Capitol, the 1 West Wilson S... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin family inside their new bomb shelter. |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
| Date: | 04 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Henry "Hank" Aaron at bat during a Milwaukee Braves pre-season game. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Woman on crutches entering the front office of the uranium tunnel to receive a uranium treatment. Several men sitting in front of the storefront on benches... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Marjean Czerwinski, wearing her crown and gown, rides on the back of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. |
| Date: | 03 14 1957 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across street towards the storefront and delivery vehicles of Spic and Span Dry Cleaning. |
| Date: | 03 30 1958 |
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| Description: | Notice of farm auction sale for farm and personal property of Ed Gein. The farmhouse was destroyed by fire before the auction took place. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An apron-clad woman broiling hamburgers in the kitchen. |
| Date: | 11 22 1955 |
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| Description: | Thomas Constable (left) and Walter Medenski (right), pose in front of canned food gathered by pupils at the Center Street school for the Salvation Army's T... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Vice President Richard M. Nixon waves his cowboy hat from the seat of an International 300 utility tractor. |
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