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| 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. |
| Read about Earth Day's founder, Gaylord Nelson, a Wisconsin senator and early environmentalist. |
| View images produced by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, while they were challenging a white, supremacist delegation. |
| A Century of Aviation |
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| Browse by category through aviation images drawn from the image collections of various archives including the Wisconsin Historical Society. |
| Documenting a Sense of Place |
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| View more than 8,000 images of Wisconsin communities: main streets, the built environment, prominent points of interests and some rural scenes. |
| Mid-Century Photographs from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources |
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| Allan Born, The Born Collection |
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| Allan Born's photographs of Northern Wisconsin during the 1930's and beyond. |
| A Visual Biography, 1908-1957 |
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| Learn about the four years Senator Joseph McCarthy held the nation in his grasp with his anti-Communist rhetoric. |
| The "Teenie Weenies" cartoons enchanted readers of all ages for more than 50 years. View this selection of cartoons by William Donahey. |
| Larger Than Life Images of Animals and Produce |
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| Learn about the tall-tale postcard industry and the career of photographer Alfred Stanley Johnson, Jr. |
| Automobiles in Wisconsin History |
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| Read about the evolution of the automotive industry and the drastic changes in manufacturing work, road infrastructure, the economy and American culture. |
| Photographs of Public Libraries in Wisconsin |
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| Learn about how the Wisconsin Free Library Commission helped to establish and improve free public libraries in Wisconsin. |
| View images from film "Hell's Angels," released by United Artists in 1930. |
| Learn the inside story of the Teasdale Vice Committee Investigation of 1913 in Wisconsin and their crusade against "social evil." |
| Civil War Envelopes |
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| View the culture and politics of a country at war with itself through envelopes produced by publishers and printers. |
| View an extensive image collection about this early social leadership center that focused on labor organization, and later, civil rights. |
| Discover the famous lithographic company most known for its WWII posters whose goal was to mobilize public support for the American war effort. |
| Photographs by Richard Quinney |
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| View photographs of the 1969 construction of the New York City World Trade Center. |
| Rabbit Raising in German Concentration Camps |
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| View this unusual photo album, the cover of which is made of angora rabbit wool, to see how the rabbits were raised in concentration camps. |
| View the online collection of Photo Copy Service photographs taken in Madison from the 1920s through 1960s. |
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