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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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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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Semi-Pro Baseball

Date: 1915
Description: Two men playing baseball for semi-pro teams in a Milwaukee ballpark.
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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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Albert Hansen

Date: 1910
Description: Self-portrait of Albert Hansen.
Postcard

Kansas Equal Suffrage

Date: 1912
Description: Depiction of a man and a woman each putting their votes into a ballot box, touting equal suffrage: "For a better government of the people, by the people, a...
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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...
Postcard

William Howard Taft, Our Next President

Date: 1908
Description: Portrait of William Howard Taft, used in his 1908 presidential election campaign. Caption reads: "William Howard Taft, Our Next President."
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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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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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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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Man and Woman near Beehives

Date: 01 06 1909
Description: A man and woman sit in a field near a large stand of beehives.
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State Capitol Construction

Date: 1912
Description: Wisconsin State Capitol under construction, with men and a horse-drawn buggy in the foreground.
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Oxygen Helmets

Date: 11 13 1909
Description: Two men in oxygen helmets outside of the Cherry, Illinois, mining disaster.
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Thorp, Wisconisn

Date: 1910
Description: Main Street looking north.
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Native American Blister Rust Crew

Date: 1933
Description: Three men working near a tree. During 1933 Menominee Indians protected over 4000 acres of white pines from the blister rust threat.
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Clarence Russell and Airplane

Date: 1919
Description: Clarence Russell leaning next to a Jenny bi-plane, wearing aviator gear. This was the first airplane to land on Madeline Island.
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Leo Capser Playing Piano on Old Mission Dock

Date: 1920
Description: Leo Capser, founder of the Madeline Island Historical Museum, sitting on a bench playing piano on the Old Mission Dock at Madeline Island.
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Clifford Meyer

Date: 05 15 1947
Description: Portrait of Clifford Meyer, salesman at Albert Dizon men's clothing store.

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