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Filter: Year of 1940-1949
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | "She's Ready to Defend America," a portrait of Georgette Louise Meyer (aka Dickey Chapelle), as a member of the Women Flyers of America, an organization fo... |
| Date: | 07 27 1941 |
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| Description: | An elderly man looking blissful, sitting in a boat getting ready to cast his line. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Milwaukee rail yards. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Boys, in background, watching as a pig, in the foreground, is taking a stroll around the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Left side of an elevated panoramic view of a full parking lot at the Wisconsin State Fair, with the grandstand and water towers in the background. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Center of an elevated panoramic view of a full parking lot, with the grandstand in the background. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Right side of an elevated panoramic view of a full parking lot with houses and electrical towers in the background. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | View overlooking crowd of Allis-Chalmers employees on strike. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of Gays Mills from a bluff overlooking the town. A man is sitting on a fence in the left foreground. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Actor Jack Carson congratulating the winner of the Wisconsin Dairy Queen at the Wisconsin State Fair, while another competitor is looking on. |
| Date: | 08 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Margaret Mueller of Milwaukee, who had the distinction of being the first lost child at the Wisconsin State Fair. She is sitting in front of the sign that ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Schley home on the corner of North Astor Street and East Juneau Avenue. It was built ca. 1850. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of hotel. On the lower right above the entrance is a sign for the Empire Room. Automobiles are parked on the street. A flag pole without a fl... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Skyline view, from across the water towards the lakefront. |
| Date: | 11 23 1949 |
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| Description: | View across river of a large crowd of people on a sledding hill, and also gathered around a shelter building. Houses are in the background atop the hill. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two girls selecting vegetables at an open air market. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Allis-Chalmers plant showing several trains on the tracks next to a large industrial building. The steam engine tender in front of the loc... |
| Date: | 07 1945 |
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| Description: | View from front of two men wearing hats standing atop a wagon piled with hay that is being pulled across a partially cut hay field by two horses. |
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