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Fitchburg Business Section

Date: 1923
Description: Business section of Fitchburg. Building and trees to the right with men and cars out front.
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Snow on Butler Street

Date: 1910
Description: Winter scene of an unplowed, snowy Butler Street, with tire tracks and snow-covered trees.
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Edward A. Birge

Date: 1917
Description: Edward A. Birge and Chancey Juday with plankton trap in Lake Mendota. From album of photographs relating to the research in limnology conducted at Trout La...
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Construction on Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1914
Description: Construction of the north wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Marlin Perkins and Zebra

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Description: Marlin Perkins shaking hands behind a zebra.
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Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indian Father and Sons

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Description: Wisconsin Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indians Foster DeCorah and sons. Foster and son Robert served in Co. D of the 128th Infantry and were killed in WWI.
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In the Laboratory

Date: 1920
Description: Rial Herreman prepares a mixture in the laboratory of his drugstore in Boyd, Wisconsin.
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Vinnie Ream with Lincoln Bust

Date: 1866
Description: Vinnie Ream posing in her studio in Washington, beside her bust of Lincoln which had been brought from the White House after the assassination.
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Abraham Lincoln

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Description: Side view of Lincoln statue by Vinnie Ream.
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Steam Tractor

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Description: Steam tractor; two men are seated on the tractor and two men are standing leaning against it. One man has crutches under one arm.
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Governor Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. when he became governor of Wisconsin. This original of this item is a postcard that was probably used for campaign p...
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Lee with Passenger

Date: 1932
Description: Clyde Allen Lee (left), who grew up in Larsen, Wisconsin, and John Bochkon, a last-minute passenger, before they took off to attempt a trans-Atlantic fligh...
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Circus Wagon

Date: 1936
Description: A circus wagon, hitched to a truck cab, is parked across the street from three houses in a residential neighborhood.
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Surveying Fire Damage

Date: 02 1904
Description: Damaged East Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol after the fire of February 27-28, showing details of the iron Corinthian columns, and the decoration...
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July 4th Window Display

Date: 07 25 1940
Description: An elaborate window display made for the occasion of the 4th of July at Stines Prescription Pharmacy.
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Herbert Hoover

Date: 1920
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States.
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Woodrow Wilson

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Description: Portrait of Woodrow Wilson.
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Circus Billboard

Date: 08 1901
Description: Professor Oscar John Schendel is pictured with a violin and bow in a billboard advertising "Schendel's All Star Vaudeville, Big Three-Ringed Circus, and Ma...
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Camp Randall Memorial Arch

Date: 1912
Description: Camp Randall Memorial Arch and Civil War cannons honor the Wisconsin Civil War soldiers on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The memorial was nam...
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Chemistry Building

Date: 1907
Description: Exterior of the Thomas C. Chamberlain Hall of the Chemistry Building at the intersection of University Avenue and North Charter Street. There is a signboa...

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