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Third Wisconsin State Capitol Demolition Close-Up

Date: 1909
Description: Close-up of the demolition of the dome of the Third Capitol, one of the few known photographs that permits such close observation of the architectural deta...
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Capitol Park and Entrance to Third Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1868
Description: The entrance to the third Wisconsin State Capitol before the construction of the dome, showing the park and walkway. Framing for the dome can be seen throu...
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Early Chicago & Northwestern Locomotive

Date: 07 04 1869
Description: The Camilla, a wood-burning locomotive that belonged to the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. The locomotive is decorated for the 4th of July, 1869.
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Alice Makes Breakfast

Date: 1972
Description: At a promotional event Deborah Moser, Alice in Dairyland, makes scrambled eggs for customers at a Kohl's grocery store.
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Tom Hayden

Date: 10 1964
Description: Tom Hayden standing in front of building with a small African-American child. Poster on window for "The Trenton Project" and two posters advocating that p...
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Arthur Page and Wife

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Arthur Page and (presumably) his wife, who is wearing a hat.
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Native American Class Portrait

Date: 1894
Description: Group portrait of Native American school students and teachers.
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Union Contract Demands

Date: 08 1949
Description: Four Texas workers with a picket sign that uses their wartime service and sacrifices to negotiate for a union contract.
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Union Membership Drive

Date: 1952
Description: United Packinghouse Workers of America members at the Armour plant in Atlanta check membership cards in an effort to bring 100 percent membership into loca...
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Children in Wheelbarrow

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Description: A view of six African American children, with four children sitting in a wheelbarrow and two children standing next to them. A house is in the far backgrou...
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Portrait of a Boy

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Description: A portrait of an African American child wearing a tattered hat against a white background.
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Belfrage and Robeson

Date: 1958
Description: Cedric Belfrage (center), exiled editor of the "National Guardian," at a party for Paul Robeson. The man on the left is Canon Stanley Evans.
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Packing Up

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Description: Sigurd Olson and another man stowing camping gear into an automobile for a canoe trip.
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Fredric March

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Description: Fredric March (seated) with Florence Eldridge (Mrs. March) and the noted news analyst Cecil Brown.
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Mr. and Mrs. Fredric March

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Description: Informal portrait of the actor Fredric March and his wife, Florence Eldridge. March, whose real name was Ernest Frederick Bickel, was born in Racine, Wisco...
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John Burroughs

Date: 1912
Description: John Burroughs seated with his dog on the steps of "Slabsides," his cabin retreat.
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Berlin Reporter

Date: 1940
Description: Associated Press journalist Alvin Steinkopf, formerly of Milwaukee, photographed on the streets of Berlin. Steinkopf was in Berlin until after Pearl Harbor...
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Rev. Waclaw Kruszka

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Reverend Waclaw Kruszka in priest's collar.
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Laurence Day, Citizen-Legislator

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Description: Laurence J. Day (left) on his farm. Day represented part of Marathon County in the Wisconsin Assembly during the 1970s. At one time such part time legislat...
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James Groppi with Small Boy

Date: 1948
Description: Father James Groppi, as a young man, and his nephew Jerry Bontempo, posing on the running board of a 1920's era vehicle. Groppi holds a basketball.

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