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| Date: | 10 1959 |
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| Description: | Moving a very large boulder with a bulldozer during construction of Highway 94 in Waukesha County. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Three uniformed employees of the Sinclair Oil Company Service Station, located at 501 East Broadway, standing in front of the station's gas pumps. Two life... |
| Date: | 05 18 1933 |
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| Description: | The Battle of Durham Hill during the milk strike, showing sheriff's deputies and National Guardsmen (sworn in as special deputies) charging farmers with ba... |
| Date: | 08 23 1985 |
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| Description: | A lone tree standing in a rural Ottawa cornfield in western Waukesha county. |
| Date: | 09 30 1984 |
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| Description: | A young girl playing with soap bubbles outdoors. |
| Date: | 05 15 1965 |
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| Description: | Girl Scouts cooking hotdogs over an open fire. The Great Blue Heron council weekend campout was held at Hartland Sportsman's Club grounds. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Rial Herreman stands beside a horse-drawn wagon/float, decorated with fresh flowers, advertising the Menomonee Drug Company. This may have been part of a l... |
| Date: | 06 17 1986 |
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| Description: | A group of children on "hot cycles," a form of young children's transportation, are being instructed on the rules of pedestrian and bicycle transportation ... |
| Date: | 04 29 1963 |
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| Description: | Rose Sorenson is waving her baton with one arm, while her other arm is in a sling. |
| Date: | 06 21 1987 |
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| Description: | Shoppers take refuge in the open doorway of a shop during a downpour. |
| Date: | 05 28 1987 |
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| Description: | A Parks Department employee pushes a mower up a steep hill to keep Buchner Park maintained. |
| Date: | 06 25 1988 |
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| Description: | St. Dominic's Catholic Parish members tend the grills at their annual festival. |
| Date: | 07 20 1988 |
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| Description: | Young men clamor to catch a Frisbee during a beach game. |
| Date: | 09 06 1988 |
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| Description: | Family members gather around a campfire to enjoy biscuits and sausages cooked on the grill at Naga-Waukee Park. |
| Date: | 09 11 1955 |
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| Description: | The crowd at "Air Progress Day," an air show sponsored by the Waukesha Aviation Club. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A barnstorming pilot and curious onlookers at a field on the outskirts of Waukesha that served as a primitive airport. Technically, the term barnstorming s... |
| Date: | 07 19 1931 |
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| Description: | The crowd at a free air show sponsored by the recently organized Waukesha Aviation Club in order to dedicate their new airport. In actuality, the club's ai... |
| Date: | 08 1912 |
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| Description: | John Kaminski (the first licensed pilot in Wisconsin, third from the right in checkered cap) with his new Curtiss pusher, the "Sweetheart." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Boys demonstrate acrobatic skills on the grounds of their summer camp. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A Standard plane on the golf course of the Waukesha Moor Baths Hotel surrounded by curious onlookers. This landing was representative of the problems encou... |
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