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Drawing

Dr. Ward School House and Landing Place

Date: 08 24 1885
Description: Pencil on paper; promontory shoreline with houses, trees, and church in background sweeping to right, with long pier jutting into lake. Two boats tied to ...
Drawing

House with Fence

Date: 08 1885
Description: Pencil on paper; wood clapboard house behind fallen fence with open gate. Three trees, small outbuilding with one-sided roof, a large tub and other equipm...
Drawing

Bird Effigy Diagram

Date: 04 12 1912
Description: Diagram of a bird effigy mound found in Frost's Woods, Blooming Grove Township.
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...
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: 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 ...
Photograph

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."
Photograph

The Empire Strikes Back

Date: 06 18 1980
Description: View down street towards a large crowd gathering in a line outside the Orpheum Theatre on State Street for a free 10AM Madison premiere of The Empire St...
Photograph

Lake Monona Parking

Date: 03 28 1959
Description: Elevated view of a parking lot along John Nolen Drive on the shore of a partially frozen Lake Monona. Railroad tracks are in the foreground on the right.
Photograph

Filming "The Cool World"

Date: 
Description: Elevated view looking over the railings in front of a building of a crowd of people watching a scene from the film "The Cool World" being shot. The cameram...
Photograph

Man Driving Delivery Truck

Date: 03 06 1926
Description: Left side view of a man sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck near a building with lumber stacked in front of it. There are houses in a neighbor...
Photograph

Waiting to Be Bused to South Boston High School

Date: 1975
Description: Students from Columbia Point waiting outdoors to be bused to South Boston High School. Most of the students are walking, and a few are clowning for the cam...
Photograph

Woman Shaking Her Fist at School Bus

Date: 1975
Description: A woman in a crowd shaking her fist at a school bus. The bus is carrying minority students to another high school as part of a school integration program. ...
Photograph

South Boston

Date: 1975
Description: A woman and a teenage girl are looking out the windows of a building during unrest following court-ordered school desegregation busing.
Photograph

Protestors Waiting for School Bus

Date: 1975
Description: View from intersection towards protestors waiting for the school bus carrying minority students from Roxbury High School to South Boston High School. They ...
Photograph

Snowmobile Tracery

Date: 1972
Description: Snowmobile tracks form a pattern in the snow on a farm. Farm buildings are on the left and trees are along a ridge on the right.

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