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| Date: | September 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Dedication of Wisconsin's first expressway, a seven-mile stretch of Interstate Highway I-94 in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Presiding at the ribbon-cutting... |
| Date: | November 19 1957 |
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| Description: | Waushara County Sheriff Art Schley and his deputy, Leon "Specks" Murty (wearing hat), escorting Ed Gein (1906-1984) to the state crime lab, 917 University... |
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| Description: | Five Mennonite children walking down the middle of the road after a fishing trip. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View of the 200 and 300 blocks of State Street looking toward the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | August 1957 |
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| Description: | An Algerian Bedouin boy with a soldier. The boy is pledging that he will kill his father "with joy" if the father should serve the French forces in the gue... |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Poster introducing the "Navistar" brand name. Features illustrations of logos and/or trademarks that preceded the change, including the "triple diamond." |
| Date: | April 1959 |
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| Description: | Funeral procession of Frank Lloyd Wright to Unity Chapel Cemetery. His body is carried in a horse-drawn vehicle with a group of people marching behind. |
| Date: | October 21 1960 |
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| Description: | Series of head shots of John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon during the televised 4th debate. |
| Date: | January 14 1964 |
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| Description: | Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing. |
| Date: | July 23 1959 |
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| Description: | "Lights On" sign at the Starlite, a drive-in movie theatre. |
| Date: | July 23 1959 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the ticket booth at the Starlite Theatre, a drive-in movie theatre. |
| Date: | July 23 1959 |
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| Description: | Daylight view of the movie screen at the Starlite, a drive-in movie theater. |
| Date: | October 23 1960 |
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| Description: | A campaign speech by presidential candidate John F. Kennedy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House. |
| Date: | 2003 |
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| Description: | Vinnie Ream's sculpture of the Spirit of Carnival. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A crowd surrounds a man as he stands atop a tree trunk swinging his axe in a woodchopping contest. |
| Date: | April 30 1959 |
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| Description: | Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., who later changed his name to Muhammad Ali, (white trunks) fighting Amos Johnson in the 178 pound final of the Pan-American Gam... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | John Muir's desk clock. The clock lighted his lamp and fire and opened the right book for him to study. At the end of half an hour it changed the book. The... |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Aerial acrobatics at the Experimental Aviation Association (EAA) convention and fly-in at Oshkosh. The EAA encompasses all aspects of sport aviation includ... |
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| Description: | Paul Poberezny at an EAA Fly-in during the mid 1980s. |
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