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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of University of Wisconsin Bureau of Audio-Visual Instruction negatives and photographs, circa 1930s-1940s
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| Description: | Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry seated in a chair holding a sword. Perry was the commander for the United States Naval Forces during the Battle of Lake Erie.... |
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| Description: | The storefront of the William Schlicht Wholesale Liquor Dealer. The building also was a saloon and features shuttered windows, advertising posters in the l... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Country road, showing a woman and a buggy pausing in the distance. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Man and woman seated in a farm wagon drawn by oxen. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Heavily rock-strewn hillside and rail fence. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View of flood damage, showing wrecked buildings along the Wisconsin River waterfront. |
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| Description: | View of a rural landscape with a river running through it. Farm buildings on either side. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of women employees of the N.R. Allen Tannery posing with a pile of tan bark. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A uniformed police officer stands in an intersection and holds his hand out in the direction of several children. Cars are in the background. Caption reads... |
| Date: | 04 21 1929 |
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| Description: | View towards two bridges. Article reads: "Highway 59, where it crosses the Rock River between Milton and Edgerton, is the scene of a bridge construction an... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a boat, the Whittaker, with most people sitting in chairs, and a few men standing. In the background is a steep shoreline, with houses along... |
| Date: | 12 27 1925 |
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| Description: | View looking down towards a young woman walking across a bridge. Caption reads: "Cable Bridge across Peshtigo River (Marinette County). Josephine Schaffer-... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View of a lumber mill and logs floating on a river, which is spanned by a bridge. The mill has a sign that reads: "Cash for Wheat - Eau Claire City Mill." ... |
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| Description: | View of a large piece of equipment. Caption reads: "Cornish Pumping Engine at Chapin Mine, 54 feet high." The Chapin Mine Cornish Pumping Engine was bu... |
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| Description: | Large machine indoors. Caption reads: "Hartford, Conn. Weaving carpet material in the Bigelow-Hartford mill on a Jacquard loom." |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a man and woman, standing outside the open door to a log cabin. Caption reads: "Mr. and Mrs. Carroll, 1926." |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Copy photograph of a painting of a Sioux Sun Dance ritual. Painting by Jules Tavernier. |
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| Description: | Copy photograph of several young men posing with rifles. Caption reads: "Apache Indian scouts on duty with the 6th Cavalry at Fort Wingate. New Mexico." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A group of men posing together in front of a stand of trees. Caption reads: "Indian 'Sun Dance' near Fort Washakie, Wyo, 1900." |
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