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Grain Elevators

Date: 2013
Description: Large round grain elevators near 3rd Street. On the right are two billboards advertising "Ballweg Midwest Toyota" and "Boys & Girls Clubs." In the foregrou...
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Hand-Painted Sayings

Date: 2013
Description: Lois Wason displaying her hand-painted saying about grandmothers, with flowers, on a board at Becker Plaza. She is wearing a light blue work shirt over a t...
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Dog and Owner in Car

Date: 2013
Description: Bob Monk sits behind the wheel of his car, holding his fluffy dog in his lap, in the Kwik Trip parking lot. The dog has its paws on the edge of the car doo...
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Teens and Christmas Tree

Date: 12 24 2013
Description: Two teen girls gaze at a Christmas tree with gifts underneath as they sit on the floor in the Temp home. One girl is wearing a turquoise dress and black ti...
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Merle Haggard

Date: 07 20 2013
Description: Merle Haggard posing in front of his Super Chief Santa Fe motor coach at the Southside Oktoberfest Grounds. He has his sunglasses hooked in the collar of h...
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Band at Oktoberfest

Date: 07 20 2013
Description: Country/folk/rock band playing and singing, prior to the Merle Haggard and the Strangers performance at the Southside Oktoberfest Grounds. They are wearing...
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Giant American Flag at Camp Randall Stadium

Date: 08 31 2013
Description: A giant American flag is spread across the field by marchers as the marching band plays, before Gary Andersen’s first football game as UW-Madison head coac...
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La Crosse Fire Chief

Date: 08 2013
Description: La Crosse Fire Chief Greg Cleveland, standing along 2nd Street, at the Oktoberfest Parade. He is wearing his dress uniform and sunglasses. On the sidewalk,...
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Mapleleaf Parade

Date: 09 2013
Description: Oktoberfest frolickers on parade during the Mapleleaf Parade on 2nd Street. Carie Ann (Schlichenmeyer) Finch and man in the foreground are wearing ethnic c...
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Giant Dryers at the Sip & Surf Laundromat

Date: 11 01 2013
Description: Amanda showing the photographer the giant Speed Queen dryers at the Sip & Surf Laundromat & Tanning Salon on West Avenue and Jackson Streets. She is wearin...
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Book Display

Date: 2013
Description: The book “I Am Malala” on display beneath the sales counter at Barnes & Noble Booksellers. A sales clerk with blonde hair is looking down from her position...
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Patriotic Skateboarder

Date: 11 06 2013
Description: A young woman wearing an American flag design sweater, with a green and grey striped knapsack, skateboarding (skateboard unseen) on the sidewalk outside of...
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Refuse Truck

Date: 2013
Description: The driver of a Harter’s Refuse truck throws a bag of trash into his truck. He is holding one trash can, and two others sit near a garage. He is wearing a ...
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Christ Episcopal Church

Date: 2013
Description: View across street of the Christ Episcopal Church main tower at the corner of 9th & Main Streets. A man is walking along the sidewalk and automobiles are p...
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Wisconsin River Headwaters Reservoir System

Date: 2013
Description: This map shows hydroelectric dams, natural-lake and man-made reservoirs, the Wisconsin River and its tributaries, and the Wisconsin River Drainage Basin. T...
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Kissel Car on the Steamer Lakeland

Date: 11 27 2013
Description: Underwater view of the front end of a Kissel car from 1924. It is resting within the steamer Lakeland, which sank in Lake Michigan.
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The Cargo of the Steamer Lakeland

Date: 11 25 2013
Description: Underwater view of a pile of automobiles and other pieces of cargo that sank with the Lakeland. In the foreground an upside down automobile is resti...
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A Cargo of Automobiles on the Steamer Lakeland

Date: 11 26 2013
Description: Underwater view of a pile of broken automobiles resting in the sunken Lakeland.
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The Site of the Lakeland and its Cargo

Date: 11 26 2013
Description: Underwater view of metal frames and rubber wheels of automobiles laying in a pile on top of each other within the sunken Lakeland. Part of the upper...
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Automobile Frames Resting on the Bottom of Lake Michigan

Date: 11 26 2013
Description: Underwater view of two automobile frames that were part of the final cargo of the steamer Lakeland A section of the ship's deck is in the background...

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