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Lead Mine Interior

Date: 1930
Description: View inside a lead mine showing six miners with a car on a track.
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Fans at Sporting Event

Date: 03 15 1957
Description: High school fans in the bleachers cheer on their team during a night game.
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Lone Rock

Date: 1885
Description: Slightly elevated view of road through Lone Rock.
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Early Fire Truck

Date: 1910
Description: Automobile Combination Chemical Engine and Hose Wagon. When the manufacturer, the Peter Pirsch Company of Kenosha, donated this image to the Historical So...
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Train Hauling Tobacco

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Description: Men standing on top of, and around, a train carrying tobacco. A sign on the side of each car reads, "This car contains tobacco used in making Old Virginia ...
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Buffalo Street Bridge

Date: 1870
Description: Metal bridge over river with three men standing near the railing.
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Cavalry at Camp Douglas

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Description: Soldiers at Camp Douglas driving horses and covered wagons.
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Vel Phillips in a Group Portrait

Date: 07 1980
Description: Vel Phillips in a large group portrait of mostly women. The women are wearing dresses and coats and have name tags on their lapels. A building with large g...
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Railroad Depot

Date: 1900
Description: View across railroad tracks towards passengers, a large group of men and one young girl, waiting on the platform at the train station for the train to arri...
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Elevated View of Railroad Depot

Date: 08 1902
Description: Elevated view of the railroad depot taken from the wooden shake roof of a building. On the right are railroad tracks, depot buildings, grain storage and a ...
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Irving Berlin

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Description: Portrait from above of Irving Berlin sitting at a piano. Berlin has his hands on the keyboard, as if playing, and is looking up at the camera. The handwrit...
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N. Webster Street at N. Hamilton Street

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Description: View towards intersection.
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Richard Burton as Alexander the Great

Date: 1956
Description: Richard Burton poses, in costume, next to a plaque of Alexander the Great. Burton wears a curly blonde wig for the title role of the 1956 film "Alexander ...
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Richard Burton in "Alexander the Great"

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Description: Richard Burton, as Alexander the Great, stands with his arms upraised surrounded by soldiers with shields and very long lances in a scene from the 1956 fil...

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