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Commercial National Bank

Date: 12 16 1930
Description: Commercial National Bank's "Fort Commercial" (a bulletproof armor cage), with Sgt. Ludwig Lenzer, Co. G, Wisconsin National Guard, holding a rifle.
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Shooting of Arndt by Vineyard

Date: 1842
Description: Shooting of Charles C.P. Arndt by James Vineyard in the territorial council chamber of the legislature. This depiction of the event was created by the staf...
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A Family, their Carriage, and their House

Date: 1875
Description: An unidentified family proudly posed in front of their brick, Greek Revival home, with their carriage and team of horses. Although the location is unidenti...
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Madison Rifle Club

Date: 03 28 1949
Description: Twenty-two men and women pose with their rifles in a indoor rifle shooting range.
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Mt. Horeb Rifle Club

Date: 03 28 1949
Description: Fifteen men and women pose with their rifles in a indoor rifle shooting range.
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Walter Simon with his Shot Gun

Date: 11 08 1955
Description: Walter Simon holds his shot gun to show its wooden parts that he crafted himself. According to his obituary, published on October 18, 1964, he was the Dir...
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Ducks Unlimited Dinner

Date: 02 03 1959
Description: 420 men turned out for the annual Ducks Unlimited dinner at Club Chanticleer. Ducks Unlimited was founded in 1938 by persons interested in wildlife conser...
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Cadets on Campus

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view across Bascom Hill on the campus of the University of Wisconsin. Student cadets in training march past South Hall down Bascom Hill.
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Ducks Unlimited Banquet

Date: 02 02 1960
Description: Four members of Ducks Unlimited inspect a gun at the annual banquet held at the Club Chanticleer. Left to right are: Toby Sherry, banquet chairman; Fred Ga...
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Middleton Sportsmen's Junior Rifle Club

Date: 05 1955
Description: Gerald E. Annin, a range officer, checks the target of Barbara Anderson at a meeting of the Middleton Sportsmen's Junior Rifle Club.
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Harry Lichter with Double-barreled Pistol

Date: 1955
Description: Caption reads: "Harry E. Lichter, curator of collections in the museum, examining a specially designed double-barreled automatic machine pistol in the Wald...

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