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Waterbury Mansion

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Description: Distant view of Waterbury mansion, with field, road and fencing in the foreground.
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Summit Center Town Hall

Date: 1928
Description: The Summit Center Town Hall.
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Changing a Tire

Date: 1923
Description: Tire blowouts were a frequent hazard of early automobile travel.
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Fort Crawford

Date: 1936
Description: Ruins of old Fort Crawford.
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Packinghouse Workers Organizing

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Description: During the 1930s the CIO's Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee PWOC) began a national organizing campaign among packinghouse workers. This undated p...
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Wagon Train

Date: 1872
Description: Elevated view of a wagon train passing through the town. There are numerous covered wagons and horses, and storefronts on both sides of the road. Caption r...
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Postwar Berlin

Date: 1946
Description: Men pulling a cart. It was, he wrote, the way "people move their stuff." Although undated, it was taken before June, 1946 when he returned to the United ...
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Elevated View down State Street

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Description: Elevated view down State Street. The Orpheum Theatre sign is visible, and in the distance is Lake Mendota.
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Elevated View down Wisconsin Avenue

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Description: Elevated view down Wisconsin Avenue towards Lake Mendota.
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Support for Allis-Chalmers Strike

Date: 11 25 1946
Description: Demonstration march down city street in support of Allis-Chalmers, local 248, strike. Most of the marchers are women. Truck in front with megaphone reads "...
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Roadside Scene with Japanese Women

Date: 1945
Description: A military truck with men in uniform is on a road near three Japanese women and a small child who are sitting on the grass on the roadside. Two of the wom...
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Trainees at Outdoor Lecture

Date: 1942
Description: Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School trainees gathered for an outdoor lecture. The men are all wearing helmets and fatigues, with some carrying submachine gu...
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Hotz Children

Date: 1910
Description: The four children of Ferdinand Hotz, Ferdinand Leonard, Margaret (Sissy), Alice Clothilde, and Helen (Leni), pose for their photograph. The older two girl...
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Wisconsin River

Date: 1932
Description: A view, looking west, from the bridge over the Wisconsin River at Lone Rock. A ledge has been cut into the bluff on the left to accommodate County Highway ...
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Lake Geneva Hotel

Date: 1914
Description: Exterior view of the Lake Geneva Hotel, a two-story, low horizontal building. A man is standing next to the car parked in front of the hotel. Caption reads...

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