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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a boy driving a cart drawn by a giant chicken. The back of the cart is filled with giant eggs, and a fence lines the road in the background... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of three women and a little girl pulling up a giant carrot root. Several other giant carrots, some of which have been pulled out of the ground... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard entitled "Melon Party." Four girls wearing bows and dresses are holding an object... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of children with giant watermelons. Four girls wearing dresses and bows hold a giant slice of melon across them as they all bite into it. Two ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a horse carrying a bundle of giant ears of corn on its back. A boy is struggling to pull the horse towards the side of the road. A young ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a group of five boy scouts around a cooking fire. The scouts watch as a giant potato, suspended over the fire, slowly roasts. They are wear... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a giant dog pulling an automobile across a landscape. The dog is running, causing the car, which is tethered to the dog's tail by a rope, ... |
| Date: | 10 27 1973 |
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| Description: | Candid portrait of three Wisconsin legislators sharing a light moment. Left to right, they are: Melvin Laird, who resigned from his congressional seat in J... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Department store magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge wearing spectacles and smoking a cigar while attending a ceremony at Ripon College at which he received an ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Portrait of photographer Alfred Stanley Johnson, Jr., a Waupun photographer best known for his "tall-tale" or "freak" postcards. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Two young boys swim in a mill pond beside a dilapidated building. |
| Date: | 05 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Two labels from Ripon Knitting Works, Ripon, Wisconsin. The label states, "LEATHER and KNIT SPORTSWEAR SINCE 1880." |
| Date: | 03 09 1933 |
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| Description: | A line of several trucks in front of the Landaal Brothers Hardware store. Landaal Brothers was likely an International Harvester dealership. One of the tru... |
| Date: | 07 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Three Madison boys, wearing Badger Boys' State t-shirts, will be attending Badger Boys' State. From left they are Bob Cnare, Edward Rubin and Dick Roberts. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing of a farm house between Ripon and Waupun, on State Highway 49. Left gable has a bell on a post on top of it. Features two doorways in front,... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Cemetery surrounded by trees. There is a fence and field in the distance. |
| Date: | 05 07 1927 |
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| Description: | At a convention of the Fond du Lac County chapters of the Loyal Temperance League, some of the children present for a group picture hold up a sign that say... |
| Date: | 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Three well-dressed women are walking past a peony farm. |
| Date: | 02 01 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a talk by Ralph Nader at Ripon College. Topics addressed: corporate responsibility and consumer protection. |
| Date: | 07 16 1937 |
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| Description: | George J. Landaal sits at a large wooden desk and examines a piece of paper taken from a box in the Landaal Brothers office while Alfred Faller looks on ov... |
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