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Coffee Shop

Date: 05 1960
Description: Two women serving coffee to customers at a coffee shop. Richland Center, Wisconsin.
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Wendell Willkie Speaking in Richland Center

Date: 03 18 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie giving a campaign speech in 1944 in the Richland Center High School gymnasium. There is a WIBU microphone with a sign for Wisconsin Network...
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Edith Wilk Willkie

Date: 03 18 1944
Description: Edith Wilk Willkie (Mrs. Wendell L. Willkie) holding a bouquet of flowers.
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Wendell Willkie with Bud Hole and Frank Joslin

Date: 03 16 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie shaking hands with Bud Hole (left) and Frank Joslin.
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Wendell Willkie Conferring with Vernon Thomson

Date: 03 18 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie conferring with Assembly Speaker Vernon Thomson (R-Richland Center). Thomson is a candidate for delegate-at-large on the Willkie slate.
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Richland Center Carnegie Library

Date: 1911
Description: Interior view of the Carnegie Library, Richland Center, WI. Two people are seated at a table reading at the far left. A frieze decorates the wall above a d...
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Ada James with Others

Date: 1900
Description: Informal studio portrait of Ada James holding a gun, and her father, David G. James in a hat, with four other people dressed in pioneer-type costumes. A wo...
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Myrtle Bancroft in Furs

Date: 1910
Description: Posed studio portrait of Myrtle Bancroft, dressed in furs. Probably the wife of Levi Bancroft, a prominent figure in Wisconsin politics.
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James Sisters

Date: 1895
Description: Formal oval-framed group portrait of Vida James, Ada James and Beulah James. Ada James (center back) later became active in the Wisconsin Women's Suffrage ...
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Ada L. James

Date: 1911
Description: Portrait of Ada L. James, who was the first president of the Political Equality League, and a lifelong crusader for social justice causes.
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Reverend Richard L. Buege, St. Luke's Lutheran Church

Date: 06 17 1965
Description: A man is standing and posing in front of a church altar. He is wearing traditional Lutheran vestments: a stole, crucifix, chasuble, and cassock. He is iden...
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Interior Masonic Temple

Date: 09 05 1923
Description: Text on front reads: "Interior Masonic Temple, Richland Center, Wis." Interior view of the Masonic Temple. The walls are light colored and the woodwork is ...
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High School Assembly Room

Date: 09 19 1913
Description: Text on front reads: "Assembly Room, High School, R. Center, Wis." View from behind of a large room filled with many desks in rows, with a stage in the bac...
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Carnegie Library

Date: 08 10 1912
Description: Text on front reads: "Carnigee Library [sic], Richland Center, Wis." Interior view of the library filled with tables, chairs, lamps, shelves of books and t...

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