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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of people posing on the steps of a building with an stained glass arched entrance. Many of the people are holding American flags. Caption reads: "P... |
| Date: | 02 15 1951 |
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| Description: | The Dane County 40 and 8 Chapter Number 684 World War I veterans group presents its annual contributions to four county child welfare programs. Left to rig... |
| Date: | 07 15 1961 |
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| Description: | The 32nd National Guard Division band playing at the State Disabled American Veterans (DAV) plaque dedication ceremony on the State Capitol grounds as part... |
| Date: | 07 04 1918 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of young men and women posing in costumes, which are mostly drapery suggesting a Greco-Roman style. One man is dressed as a Roman so... |
| Date: | 11 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Armistice Day ceremony with Mrs. Ella M. Bresee, representing the Grand Army of the Republic and the Daughters of 1812, shown placing a wreath at the cenot... |
| Date: | 08 28 1929 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Memorial Hospital at Farwell's Point on the grounds of the Mendota Mental Health Institute. There is a photocopy of an article included with the ... |
| Date: | 07 15 1961 |
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| Description: | A plaque dedicating a tree in memory of Joyce Kilmer is placed on the State Capital grounds at a special ceremony held by the State Disabled American Veter... |
| Date: | 08 1917 |
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| Description: | People stand near several carts, which are hitched to horses. In some carts boxes of vegetables are visible. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. August, 1917. Cu... |
| Date: | 04 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Three Madison men, all past commanders of the post (Togstad-Glenn Chapter 2), get together for the first time in 10 years at the installation. They are Mar... |
| Date: | 11 11 1949 |
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| Description: | A community service to observe Armistice Day at the State Street's entrance to the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Flag bearers and a crowd of people sur... |
| Date: | 10 11 1949 |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers to participate in a service to observe Armistice Day at the State Street entrance to the Wisconsin State Capitol building. At center left, ... |
| Date: | 11 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Armistice Day ceremony, looking down State Street, with a drum and bugle corps on the left and other veterans in uniform standing at attention near the cen... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A children's parade is marching down a street. In front are several boys dressed in overalls and carrying pitchforks and other farm implements. Behind them... |
| Celebrations of Memorial Day Throughout History |
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| Discover the history of Memorial Day celebrations in Wisconsin. |
| View the collection of images of Wisconsin women in a variety of activities: farm work, canning, suffragism, photography, war work and civil rights. |
| Zoologist, Professor and University President |
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| Biography of zoologist and professor Edward Asahel Birge who was president of the University of Wisconsin from 1918 to 1925. |
| Poet and Temperance Advocate |
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| Biography of Wisconsin poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox. |
| The History of Modern Immigration in Wisconsin |
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| Discover the economic and cultural changes that brought new immigrants to Wisconsin in the 20th century. |
| The Lloyd Jones Family Album |
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| Read about the career of The Capital Times founder Richard Lloyd Jones and browse through photographs he and his wife took while living in Madison. |
| Madison's Oldest Resident |
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| Born into slavery, Hettie Pierce lived 115 years and was able to fully experience both life before and after emancipation. |
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