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Cherry Picking Scene

Date: 07 04 1927
Description: Text on front reads: "Cherry Picking Scene, Door County, Wisconsin." A cherry orchard filled with people and people on ladders, harvesting the fruit into b...
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Boys Doing Gymnastics in Field

Date: 1874
Description: Three young men doing gymnastics in a field near a cow, with other people standing and posing behind them. Two people are in a wagon. In the background are...
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Elephant with Two Riders

Date: 06 29 1928
Description: Two men are sitting on an elephant. A crowd of people are in the background. A ladder is lying in the foregound.
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High School Fire

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Description: Photographic postcard view of firemen fighting a high school fire. A small crowd of people are watching from the street.
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Reef Light House, Three Miles from Shore

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Description: Hand-colored postcard view of the Reef Lighthouse in Lake Michigan off the shore of Racine. A person is standing to the left of the lighthouse. Caption rea...
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Missile Replacement

Date: 1986
Description: Three people standing in a field watching a missile replacement (large trailer lifted at an angle behind a barbed wire fence) at an Mx installation. Near t...
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Debris On Shoreline

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Description: Elevated view across water towards a building at the top of a steep incline, with a small group of people to the left. On top of the hill to the right are ...
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Pan-Am Cafe Under Construction

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Description: A Pan-Am Cafe and Service Station while under construction. Three people are standing near the doorway. The station was owned by Amzie Moore, noted civil r...
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Earth Day Globe

Date: 1995
Description: Elevated view of a large crowd of people wearing hard hats gathered on the National Mall. They are building a huge model of the planet Earth for the 25th A...
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Company Boarding House

Date: 1908
Description: View of a large boarding house. Two people are standing on the porch, and a woman is sitting and looking out of the sill of a second-story window. Caption ...
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Uncle Herman's Farm

Date: 08 02 1903
Description: Group of well-dressed people posing outdoors at Uncle Herman's farm. Harry Dankoler is the man in the middle holding the shutter release mechanism. On the ...
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E.B. Fred Hall

Date: 1954
Description: E.B. Fred Hall, the first home of the bacteriology department, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A person is shoveling dirt in front of the bu...
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Motion Picture Set

Date: 10 03 1961
Description: View of a downtown street, altered by 20th Century Fox motion picture studio for scenes in the movie "Young Man." For filming, local people dressed the par...
Poster

Co-op Poster

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Description: A poster featuring a man in a tri-corner hat directing a group of people as they raise the frame of a barn. The text reads, "NEIGHBORS built America" and "...
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Police and Firemen's Show

Date: 07 28 1954
Description: Firemen practice demonstrating the rescue of people from a burning building with an aerial ladder. They are preparing for the Police and Fireman's show at ...
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Intersection of Main and First Streets

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Description: Man on a ladder painting around a window of the Jackson County Bank. Arch over the intersection partially visible on the right side, as are several people ...
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Steamboat Quincy Sinking in the Mississippi River

Date: 1906
Description: Group of people stand on pier near the Diamond Jo line steamboat Quincy, sunk in 1906. It was raised and renamed the J.S. There are men on th...
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Construction Site

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Description: A construction site with a view of the excavated foundation and the street level. At the street level are buildings, people, a crane, construction shacks, ...
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Construction Site

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Description: A construction site with a view of the excavated foundation and the street level. At the street level are buildings, people, a crane, construction shacks, ...
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The Dive

Date: 08 1922
Description: The person in midair, possibly David Rumsey, is diving from a height of 21 feet into Lake Michigamme. The log boathouse and American flag are in the foregr...

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