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Female Band Serenading Cows

Date: 08 1930
Description: The Ingenues, an all-girl band and vaudeville act, serenading the cows in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dairy Barn in a scientific test of whether th...
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Cathryn Haight Milking Cow

Date: 05 12 1933
Description: Cathryn (Mrs. Ben) Haight sitting on a stool milking a cow by hand on the Capitol View Farm, 5380 Lacy Road.
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4-H Milking Champion

Date: 11 18 1931
Description: Marian Dolan, 1931 National 4-H milking champion, milking a cow. She is a member of the Maple Knoll 4-H Club north of Sun Prairie.
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Champion Cow Milker

Date: 10 28 1931
Description: A young woman is demonstrating her championship cow-milking skills as she is sitting on a low stool and milking a Holstein cow. A person (out of frame) is ...
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Brownie Day Camp

Date: 07 22 1952
Description: Three campers sit on a log while eating watermelon after a treasure hunt at the Brownie Hoyt Park Day Camp. Left to right: Elizabeth O'Neill, Oregon; Bonn...
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Blackhawk Bowhunters Club

Date: 07 19 1953
Description: Lois Herning, age 10, surveys her results on an archery target at Blackhawk Bowhunters Club.
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Camp Indianola

Date: 1929
Description: A group of young boys with their male camp counselors are sitting and standing around the split-rail fence. There is a log cabin and a cornfield in the bac...
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Sid Boyum on his Toonerville Trolley

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Description: View across the backyard of 237 Waubesa St. looking at Sid Boyum standing on the back of his wooden trolley, "Toonerville". Sid has a corncob pipe in his m...
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Cafe on the Square

Date: 10 09 2014
Description: Interior view of three young men sitting at a bar facing the window of a cafe, shaded by an outdoor awning. The building across the street has a glass faca...
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Leonore Middleton

Date: 1918
Description: Leonore Middleton posing standing next to a pan of freshly picked strawberries, which are resting on a porch step next to a wooden column on the porch. She...
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Mowing the Lawn

Date: 1930
Description: Juanita Judkins pushing a "Run Easy" reel lawn mower. She is wearing heavy fabric coveralls with wide legs which end at mid-calf, exposing silk stockings. ...
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Backyard at the Beginning of June

Date: 06 01 2015
Description: Elevated view of a woman, Solveig Quinney, pushing a wheelbarrow in her yard. Stepping stones in the lawn ring a garden plot. Other flowering bushes and pl...
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Dane County Council of Defense Food Board Curb Market

Date: 08 1917
Description: People stand near several carts, which are hitched to horses. In some carts boxes of vegetables are visible. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. August, 1917. Cu...
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Wild West Show, Madison

Date: 1900
Description: Four children on the left are standing and looking through the open door of a stagecoach, in which a man, (obscured by the side of the coach) is sitting wi...
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"Hammer the Hun" Parade

Date: 1917
Description: A children's parade is marching down a street. In front are several boys dressed in overalls and carrying pitchforks and other farm implements. Behind them...

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