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General Winfield Scott Hancock and Staff

Date: 06 1864
Description: Civil War General Winfield Scott Hancock and division commanders, (standing left to right) Generals Barlow, Birney, and Gibbon (previously commander of the...
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Ringling Brothers' Circus Clowns

Date: 1901
Description: Two early Ringling Brothers' circus clowns, whose photographs appeared in the "Ringling Annual" under a section titled "Last of the Old-Time Clowns".
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Clearing Trenches

Date: 06 1917
Description: British troops clear German trenches that were destroyed in battle in the Messine Ridge, Flanders.
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Washburn Observatory

Date: 1880
Description: Elevated view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Washburn Observatory. Hill, trees and fields are in the background. A man is standing near a small obs...
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Harbor Scene

Date: 1887
Description: Some of the Old-Timers in the photograph: Steamers: Petosky (on stocks), Muskegon, Corona, A.D. Hayward, City of St. Joe, Lotus, J.F. Dayan, Grace Willia...
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Case Residence

Date: 1902
Description: Winter scene at the Case Residence with J. I. Case's sleigh and team. Andrew Jackson, hostler, (died Dec., 1924) is in the sleigh and "Nick" Mitchell, hir...
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John Muir Residence

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Description: A modern view of the former John Muir residence at Hickory Hill. Muir's father Daniel moved his family there in 1857 from their earlier farm on Fountain L...
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Hubert H. Humphrey Speaking to Workers

Date: 1968
Description: Hubert H. Humphrey speaking to factory workers through a megaphone from the back of a convertible.
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: 1st and 2nd Residents

Date: 1926
Description: First page of an album kept by Neighborhood House, with individual images of head resident Gay Braxton, second resident Mary Lee Griggs, and two exterior v...
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Neighborhood House Album: Valentine Play

Date: 1925
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two views of a play performed for Valentine's Day. One side shows a person dressed in jester's attir...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: T.T. Club: A Swell Time

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two T.T. Club images, one of two girls tending to another girl who is in bed ("and a tray for Katie"...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Tin Cans Clean-up

Date: 04 1935
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with a group of Boy Scouts and some of the 12,000 tin cans they collected in a neighborhood clean-up campaig...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Play School

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House with images from the Play School: a group of children posing outdoors with buckets and a parasol, director...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Boy Scouts

Date: 1935
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with three images of a Boy Scout troop: a group portrait in front of the settlement house with men and boys ...
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Farmers Waiting to Load Their Goods

Date: 1898
Description: Farmers with their loads waiting to ship on train number 40 at Colfax, Wisconsin. "An everyday occurrence at 3:50 pm during September and October."
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A Gathering at Jolly Lodge

Date: 1896
Description: Group portrait of men and women at a gathering at Jolly Lodge. The men are wearing knickerbockers, and the women are wearing long skirts with puffy sleeved...
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Shirley Clarke and Cameraman

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Description: Shirley Clarke, wearing a hat and holding a cigarette, is leaning on the cameraman to look through the camera lens during the shooting of the film "The Coo...

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