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| Description: | Pulling tree stumps in northern Wisconsin. A group of curious onlookers watches as workers load large stumps. A sign in the background reads: "Conrath Home... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Yellow Cab Transfer Company located at 643 E. Wilson Street, (housed in the Denison Building) with two cabs with drivers out front. |
| Date: | 08 11 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Strand Theater located at 16 East Mifflin Street near the corner of Wisconsin Avenue. The marquee reads "Babe Ruth and Anna Q. Nilsson... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Signs are advertising sideline businesses along a rural road. There is a large sign that reads: "For Sale Belgian Carrier Pigeons," and a smaller sign that... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman stands amid a patch of squash plants and displays a large squash in Marinette County. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin students sitting on the base of the Lincoln statue on Bascom Hill. |
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| Description: | View across field towards the Land Clearing Special Train, a program sponsored by the University of Wisconsin's Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Depa... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Two police officers, one on a motorcycle with sidecar on the corner of Mifflin and Carroll Street, on the Capitol Square. A large Santa Claus cutout is lo... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | The Crown Can Company, along the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad line. |
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| Description: | Campground for employees of the Nelson Weber Construction Company photographed for the Wisconsin Good Roads Association during the early 1920s. Such facili... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two women working in a large vegetable garden. A long building, perhaps a barn, and a smaller building are on the left. In the background ... |
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| Description: | Two men with cows in the barnyard of farm. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A man is standing in a field and stacks sheaves of grain. He is wearing a hat and is smoking a cigarette. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A woman in a dress is talking to two men in hats who are riding in a horse and buggy. They are in a field near a tree. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of entrance of Wisconsin General Hospital near the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Date: | 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock seated on a stool and milking a cow. Another man stands near the head of the cow. They are in a fenced field near a road, most ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View of a stump as it's being blown up with explosives in a field on a farm. In the background is a train. |
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