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Bogart Store

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Description: The Bogart Store, a new and second-hand store, operated by George Bogart. Note details of the "Romanesque" brickwork, executed by Milwaukee German workmen...
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Sloop "Peggy"

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Description: Gaff rigged sloop "Peggy".
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Pontoon Airplane

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Description: A pontoon airplane floating on a lake with a man next to it.
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Reginald Jackson

Date: 1930
Description: Portrait of Dr. Reginald H. Jackson, Sr., chief surgeon and co-founder of Madison's Jackson Clinic .
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Pontoon Airplane

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Description: Two men standing on a pontoon airplane with their dog and a line of ducks they successfully hunted.
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Bashford Farmhouse

Date: 1927
Description: Exterior of the Bashford farmhouse.
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Ott-Wright House

Date: 1920
Description: The house was built in the late 1850s or early 1860s by Donnel and Kutzbock, who also built the first Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison. Originally this h...
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Pierce House

Date: 1920
Description: Interior view of the Pierce house at 424 North Pinckney Street. The stairway was built by A.D. Frederickson. The spiral stairway has solid hand-turned rail...
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Jackson Family Reviews Clinic Plans

Date: 1931
Description: Members of the Jackson family review building plans for the Jackson Clinic. They are identified left to right: James Jackson, Jr., Joseph W. Jackson, Sr., ...
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Four Generations of Jacksons

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Description: Four generations of the Jackson family, identified as: (seated) Mrs. James A. Jackson (Syndonia Hobbins Jackson), standing left to right, Harriet Jackson M...
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Native American on Horse

Date: 1902
Description: Portrait of Native American on horseback. A similar photograph that appeared in the Williston Press, January 11, 1951, dated it as 1902.
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Advanced Trench Digging

Date: 07 17 1917
Description: ROTC engineers, probably at Fort Sheridan, in training for trench construction. Victor Morris of Milwaukee, in whose wartime album this photograph appears,...
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Russian Prisoners

Date: 11 16 1918
Description: Released Russian prisoners near Stenay, France, shortly after the armistice.
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Pershing and the Troops

Date: 1918
Description: General Pershing inspecting troops in France. Victor Morris, in whose wartime album this photograph appears, may have been the photographer. He identified...
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African American Military Cooks

Date: 11 10 1918
Description: African-American cooks for the 808th Pioneer Infantry officers mess, photographed at Aubreville, France, one day before the armistice.
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Returning Prisoners of War

Date: 11 25 1918
Description: Verdun-Etain Road, about two weeks after the armistice, showing returning prisoners of war. This photograph was probably taken by Victor Morris, in whose w...
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Alice Jackson

Date: 1918
Description: Portrait of Alice F. Jackson of Madison, sitting in a chair and crocheting.
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Bettina Jackson, Bridesmaid

Date: 1908
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Bettina Jackson, of Madison, wearing the dress that she wore in the wedding of her brother Reginald to Elsie Stevens in 1908...
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Elsie Stevens in Wedding Gown

Date: 06 04 1908
Description: Formal portrait of Elsie Stevens, the daughter of Breese Stevens of Madison, in the princess gown of white lace over satin she wore for her wedding to Dr. ...
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Eagle Regiment Car

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Description: Dr. James A Jackson, Sr., who was a hospital steward for the 8th Wisconsin Regiment during the Civil War, riding in an open car during a GAR parade in Madi...

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