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Factory Girls

Date: 1922
Description: Factory girls' “club” gathered for coffee in plant refreshment room in the Milwaukee Paper Box Co.
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Lorin Gillett (1915-1985)

Date: 1930
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of Lorin Gillett at approximately 15 years of age.
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Mary and Herman Krueger

Date: 
Description: Full-length portrait of Mary Goetsch Krueger, at age 15, with her brother Herman.
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Vocational Class

Date: 1978
Description: Vocational students at James Williams Junior High School work on a silkscreen project. The screens are laying on the work bench. More students, tables and ...
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Nakoma Teen Party

Date: 04 15 1950
Description: Teenage children of Nakoma Golf Club members hold paper cups as they enjoy their 'Junior Teen Spring Party.' They are (clockwise): Sally Williamson, Nancy...
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Business Section

Date: 1925
Description: View down road of mixed residential and commercial area after a rain. A group of men, women, and children stand on the front steps of a brick building.
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Hmong Teens

Date: 2007
Description: Three Hmong teenagers posing for a group portrait sitting on a bench.
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Golfing at Wausau Country Club

Date: 1913
Description: Dr. Joseph Smith golfing at Wausau Country Club with friends. One man is putting while two other men stand by watching. Two young caddies carrying clubs st...
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Marc's Big Boy Protest

Date: 1963
Description: Group of people, probably including NAACP Youth Council members, picketing outside Marc's Big Boy restaurant. Lloyd Barbee is second from the left.
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Auto Mechanics Student

Date: 1978
Description: A student using an engine lathe in an auto mechanics class at Indianhead Technical Institute. He is wearing safety glasses, jeans and an Ashland wrestling ...
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Carl and Nimrod

Date: 1909
Description: Carl posing as a "Havud Boy" (Harvard), with his dog Nimrod in the woods. Carl is wearing an eye patch and has what appears to be a cigarette in his mouth.
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Scenic View — Railroad

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Description: A view down railroad tracks near the Bridgeport depot. A woman with her hands behind her back poses on one track. Three boys wearing overalls pose on the m...
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Soren Uhrenholdt at Danish High School

Date: 1870
Description: Cabinet card with a studio group portrait of five youth. A blue pen mark is on Soren J. Uhrenholdt who is sitting in the front row on the left. Handwritten...
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School Trip To Forest Products Laboratory

Date: 1951
Description: Richard Quinney took this photograph with his own camera while in high school, at Delavan High School. It was a trip to the Forest Products Laboratory, at ...
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El Capitan

Date: 1935
Description: The photographer's wife, Margaret Bouer Brumder, is sitting on a low stone wall at an overlook in Yosemite National Park, with the granite formation El Cap...
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Scene on Main Street

Date: 1916
Description: Four boys stand on Main Street posing for the photograph. Near them on the left two boys sit on the steps of a confectionery. Other pedestrians are scatter...
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Post Office and Hotel

Date: 1909
Description: The exterior of the post office and hotel. A group of boys and men pose at the front of the post office. Another man leans on the side of a wagon. A young ...
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Freedom School Students Drinking Coca Cola

Date: 07 1965
Description: Freedom School students photographed by a civil rights volunteer.

"A free Coke for all - offered by the new superintendent of schools - helped to create ...

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Van Hill Stand on Highway 13

Date: 1925
Description: Vending stand on Highway 13 near Van Hill Cabins. A man stands near an automobile parked in the road in front, and three girls are gathered on benches unde...
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Shorb Hotel

Date: 1924
Description: View across intersection of the exterior of the Shorb Hotel. Boys on bicycles are in the street in front near a man standing on the curb. Automobiles are p...

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