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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over trees of village. In the background is a water tower on a hill with trees. |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | People riding decorated bicycles in a 4th of July parade. |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of crowd gathered at a Civilian Defense Rally. Booths are in the background, including a game booth where you can "Deflate The Axis,... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from driveway of the entry to the Hillside Playhouse, with a large tree obscuring part of the building in the background. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Old Mission Congregational Church. The church was built in 1832 for a mission founded by Frederick Ayer in 1830. It is said to be the oldest Protestant... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Alma Schmidt Petersen controls the sheets on a small sailboat. Her husband, William F. Petersen, sits aft. The child between them is unidentified. The sail... |
| Date: | 10 1944 |
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| Description: | View from crowd of Governor Thomas A. Dewey of New York, the Republican Party presidential candidate, aboard the campaign train. |
| Date: | 10 1944 |
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| Description: | View from crowd of Governor Thomas A. Dewey of New York, the Republican Party presidential candidate, aboard the campaign train. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View across empty field towards railroad tracks. In the far background is a water tower next to a power plant. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A boy is crouching on the ground playing a game of marbles outdoors in the dirt. In the background is a building with an open doorway. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Rail handcar parked outdoors in a dirt yard. There is debris piled in the background, and in the far background are houses. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View alongside railroad tracks towards a railroad coaling tower. Railroad cars are on another set of tracks on the left. A locomotive is on the center set ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View towards a steam locomotive coming down one of a set of five railroad tracks at a railroad crossing. A group of locomotives are parked in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A photographer is walking near railroad tracks at a railroad crossing, with an automobile at the crossing in the background on the right. The photographer ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from sidewalk towards Sid Boyum's house at 237 Waubesa Street. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Margaret Boyum, wearing a fur coat, standing on a porch holding the handle of a Taylor Tot stroller that her son, Steve Boyum, is sitting in. |
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