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Ideal Curlers

Date: 1921
Description: Exhibit of Ideal Curlers at the Wisconsin State Fair, with a woman demonstrating how they were to be used for long hair. The advertising promises "no metal...
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Resting in the Sun, Coney Island

Date: 1968
Description: A group of five men and women sit on metal crates in the sun on the Coney Island boardwalk.
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Test Seining on Kentuck Lake

Date: 1958
Description: View across water towards men, women, and children sitting in metal boats on a lake. They are watching five men standing waist deep in the lake holding up ...
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Picnic Island

Date: 1905
Description: A man is holding two small metal pails. A woman, just out of frame, is standing on the far right. A rowboat is in the foreground, and another pier is in th...
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Len Nyberg in Outdoor Bathtub

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Description: Len Nyberg sitting in a white, enamel metal bathtub set up on a lawn outdoors near the Yahara River. He is washing his feet. A wooden duck is floating in t...
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In the Woods

Date: 08 30 1918
Description: Wearing a hat and scarf, an unknown woman is sitting on the ground in the woods, looking at the camera. To her right, amidst ferns and plants, Lucy Rumsey ...
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Camping along Long Lake

Date: 1967
Description: View towards a child, and a woman holding a baby at the shoreline of a lake. In the right foreground is a camper, and on the left is the front hood of a ca...
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Picnic on Shore of Flambeau River

Date: 1940
Description: A man, sitting on a wooden bench, and a woman, sitting on the ground, are enjoying a picnic on the shore of the Flambeau River. There is an open plaid meta...
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Holt and Stroh Cousins

Date: 08 22 1913
Description: An informal group portrait of some of the Holt and Stroh cousins, along with Uncle Wallace Rumsey. Jeannette Holt and Wallace Rumsey are holding metal milk...
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Steelworkers Costume Party Winners

Date: 11 08 1947
Description: Prize winners at a costume dance sponsored by Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation).
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Recreation Leadership Club

Date: 12 02 1948
Description: Five University of Wisconsin students in the Community Leadership in Recreation curriculum are watching Prof. James Schwalbach demonstrate metal work in th...
Postcard

Gag Photo of a Man Posing with Paper Woman

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Description: A gag photo postcard of a man, seated on the edge of a bed, with his arm around a life-sized paperboard cut out of a beautiful, seated woman. He is holding...
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The Picnic

Date: 08 21 1922
Description: W.A. Holt and three of his adult children are picnicking under birch trees on the shore of Archibald Lake. From left to right: Jeannette Holt, wearing f...
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Outside the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: View across street towards a small group of people standing together outside the U.W. Milwaukee Panther Arena. Temporary metal barricades and signs read: "...
Postcard

Erickson and Evenson Company Store

Date: 10 09 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Erickson and Evenson Co. Store. Stetsonville, Wis." Four men and a boy on a tricycle pose on the boardwalk in front of a General Stor...
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Picnic

Date: 04 29 1934
Description: Mararet Bouer (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder, far left, and her son Philip, third from left, join other friends or relatives gathered around a large fallen log ...
Postcard

The Yahara River from City Park

Date: 11 19 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "The Yahara River from City Park, Stoughton, Wis." View from shoreline towards a river flowing through a town park. There are two boat...
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People Gathered for Scrap Drive Parade

Date: 05 18 1942
Description: Elevated view of a large group of people gathered with tractors and trucks for a scrap parade in a downtown area. In the background automobiles are parked ...
Historical Object

109 - Various Scenes Joy Camps

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying seven photographs. Scenes depicted: canoes and campers on a lake; campers on a wooden footbridge; campers cookin...
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Shading the Camera in the Woods

Date: 1921
Description: With her face partially shaded by a hat, Jeannette Holt is holding a cast iron frying pan sideways to shade the camera as a young man, sitting at the base ...

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