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Felton Gun Store

Date: 04 29 1932
Description: Interior of Felton Gun Store, located at 120 E. Washington Avenue, with elk, deer, and mountain goat heads mounted on the wall among the firearms and hunti...
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Sears Sporting Goods Display

Date: 03 02 1932
Description: Sears Roebuck & Co. sporting goods display, featuring guns and golf clubs with "Hercules Work Clothes" sign.
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Felton Gun Store Booth at ESBMA Fall Festival

Date: 09 10 1929
Description: Felton Gun Store booth at East Side Business Men's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival." Sporting goods for sportsmen." Featuring a woodland campsite tableau...
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Algerian Man and Young Boy

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Description: A man shows a little boy (his son?) a gun.
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Indian Agency House

Date: 1932
Description: Indian Agency House near the site of Fort Winnebago. This is an interior view of the kitchen hearth.
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Inspecting Machinery at War Production Plant

Date: 05 25 1942
Description: Factory inspectors at International Harvester's 20 mm gun plant. A woman also stands in the background using a piece of equipment. Original caption reads: ...
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International Harvester 20 mm Gun Plant

Date: 05 25 1942
Description: A factory worker operates a grinder at International Harvester's 20 millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "The Harvester gun plant management is es...
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Men Lifting Gun from Rack at 20 mm Gun Plant

Date: 05 25 1942
Description: Factory workers lift a gun at International Harvester's 20 (twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "The workmen shown in this picture are li...
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Two Men Inspecting a Gun at a War Production Plant

Date: 05 25 1942
Description: Factory workers inspect a gun at International Harvester's 20 (twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "In the test firing department careful...
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International Harvester 20mm Gun Plant

Date: 05 25 1942
Description: Factory workers at International Harvester's 20 (Twenty) Millimeter Gun Plant operate a factory machine. Caption on photograph reads: "First machining of t...
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Small Arms Class

Date: 1942
Description: A group of uniformed soldiers sit at tables in a room at Camp Perry to be instructed in a small arms class. Firearms are on the table in front of each pers...
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Navy Machinery Inspection

Date: 1943
Description: Fowler McCormick and other International Harvester executives look on as men stand at stations with truck engines at the U.S. Navy Motor Vehicle Maintenanc...
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Mary Pickford in "Caprice"

Date: 1913
Description: Mercy Baxter (played by Mary Pickford) is a mountain girl who has fallen in love with Jack Henderson, a wealthy boy from the city. After his father tells h...
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Film Still from "The Boss of the Lazy 'Y'"

Date: 1918
Description: Actress Josie Sedgwick as Betty Clayton and six other men, some with guns, holed up in a ranch house, shooting toward a window. One of the men stands with ...
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Man Posing with a Gun at Gisholt

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Description: View of a man posing and aiming a gun into the air inside a Gisholt conference room. The man is wearing a hunting jacket and he is standing in front of cha...
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Publicity Still from "The Cool World"

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Description: A publicity still from the film "The Cool World" showing an African American teenage boy standing next to a large window holding a gun.
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Publicity Still from "The Cool World"

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Description: A publicity still from the film "The Cool World" showing an African American teenage boy holding and pointing a gun. An African American teenage girl is st...
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Mosinee Goes Communist for a Day: Red Raid

Date: 05 01 1950
Description: Caption reads: "Simulated Communist seizure--Editor Francis Schweinler, (Left) of the local paper is seized by Communist Commisar[sic] Joseph Kornfeder as ...
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Gun Inspection

Date: 05 05 1966
Description: A man in a suit is holding and looking at a Thompson submachine gun. Another Thompson and a pump-action shotgun are hanging on the wall. Caption reads: "AN...

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