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Local SPEBSQSA Group Rehearsal

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: The local group of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) rehearsing before an internationa...
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Local SPEBSQSA Group Rehearsal

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: The local group for the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) rehearsing for an international ...
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Local SPEBSQSA Group Rehearsal

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: The local group of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) group rehearses for an internatio...
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Local SPEBSQSA Group Rehearsal

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: The local group of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) rehearsing before an internationa...
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Governor Patrick Lucey hands James Morton Smith the Historic Preservation Week Proclamation

Date: 05 1975
Description: Governor Patrick J. Lucey, (left) stands holding the proclamation, and James Morton Smith, director of the Wisconsin Historical Society, (right) holds the ...
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Historic House Tourists

Date: 1945
Description: Visitors to the historic Charles A. Grignon House (built 1837-1839), probably during the 1940s. The visitors are seated on a corner of the front porch unde...
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Jessie

Date: 1905
Description: Jessie Underwood, daughter of E.W. Underwood, posing on the wooden front steps of the family home. She is wearing a hat and a fancy dress with ruffled bodi...
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Marquette Historic Marker

Date: 06 30 1957
Description: View across lawn towards a crowd, with costumed participants dressed as Native Americans, fur traders, and Jacques Marquette, at the dedication of the Marq...
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Katie Morrison Sitting at a Table

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Description: Katie Morrison became the first woman elected to the Wisconsin Senate back in 1974. Morrison served just one term in the Senate. In that term, she helped p...
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Abel Dunning Residence--Mapleside

Date: 1962
Description: Abel Dunning Residence--Mapleside, 3335 University Avenue. Built in 1853 of buff sandstone from a nearby quarry, this historic Greek Revival farmhouse a...
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Chief Ma-ko-day and Family

Date: 07 1916
Description: St. Croix Ojibwa Chief Ma-Ko-day (Chief Peter Bearheart) and his wife, grandson, and another unidentified person in front of their birch wigwam located in ...
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Front Hall

Date: 1905
Description: Interior view of Oakwood, the residence of E.W. Underwood showing a wood paneled U-shaped staircase. There is a chair in the foreground, and behind it is a...
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Montello Fish and Game

Date: 1905
Description: G.W. Roskie, left, of South Dakota, and Dr. Lange of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania pose with their rifles on the porch of the Montello House Hotel. Between them...
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Willow Hedge

Date: 1905
Description: An album page with two photographs of a row of willow trees reflected in the mill pond (Montello Lake) behind the residence of E.W. Underwood. In the lower...
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Old Maid's Hall

Date: 1905
Description: A young woman, Jessie Underwood, reclining supported on one elbow on a fur rug in front of a piano. In front of her lying on the rug is a cat. Light comes ...
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Tenny and Underwood

Date: 1905
Description: Two gentlemen, identified as E. Tenny, of Denver Colorado, left, and E.W. Underwood of Montello, Wisconsin, are posing sitting in the parlor of Underwood's...
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First Church of Christ, Scientist Historic Marker

Date: 06 10 1955
Description: A small group is gathered for the dedication and unveiling of the First Church of Christ, Scientist historical marker in Oconto. Raymond Sivesind, supervis...
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Milwaukee-Downer College Historic Marker

Date: 06 15 1965
Description: Leslie Fishel, Director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, speaking from the stage at the dedication and unveiling of the Milwaukee-Downer Colle...
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Historic Sites Committee

Date: 06 1960
Description: Historic Sites Committee, State Historical Society Annual Meeting. Members featured from left to right include: Carl Guell, State Aeronautics Commission, T...
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Group at the Hotel

Date: 1905
Description: Two women and three girls posing in front of the Hotel on the Hill. Blanche Richter is seated at left and holds a cat on her lap. The woman standing next t...

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