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Tractor with Reins

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Description: A farmer in a field sits on a cultivator and drives a horseless tractor with reins or belts. Three men are standing in the background.
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Dicky Chapelle on Command Ship in Vietnam

Date: 1964
Description: On the top deck of the Vietnamese Navy's River Assault Group 23 command ship, on the Manhtit River, central Vietnam (vicinity Vinh Long), the "National Geo...
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Dicky Chapelle on Command Ship in Vietnam

Date: 1964
Description: On the top deck of the Vietnamese Navy's River Assault Group 23 command ship, on the Manhtit River, central Vietnam (vicinity Vinh Long), the "National Geo...
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First Beetown House

Date: 1925
Description: An early two-story frame house with a lean-to addition on the rear.
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Melchior Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: View from road of a two-story brick structure identified as the Melchior Hotel. See also image 67069.
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Commercial Building

Date: 1925
Description: View across street of a young boy in overalls crossing the street in front of a large frame commercial building with windows and awnings, possibly a hotel....
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Token Creek Tavern

Date: 1925
Description: This view of the Token Creek Tavern (Field's Inn) was created from a tintype (circa 1870) by E.E. Lawrence. A crowd has gathered on the porch and balcony o...
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LaFayette Hill Tavern

Date: 1925
Description: This two-story wooden structure was originally the house of LaFayette Hill (1812-1853), a member of Wisconsin's first Constitutional Convention and settler...
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The Red Tavern

Date: 1925
Description: A deteriorating wooden structure with two gables on the front, identified as the Red Tavern between Kilbourn and Mauston, built in 1848.
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Twin Island House

Date: 1925
Description: An old commercial structure identified as the Twin Island House. There are feed sacks on the porch and a Coca-Cola sign on the front of the building. This...
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Temperance House Sign

Date: 1925
Description: A worn, painted wooden sign reads: "Temperance House by J. Child 1852." It was "at Lima Center, the first house south of the cemetery on the main road bet...
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Civilian Conservation Corps Cook Staff

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Description: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) cook staff. Harold Gauer had joined the CCC for a year at a dollar a day in the late 1930's.
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Sculptured Advertising Company

Date: 05 31 1965
Description: Sculptured Advertising Company (F.A.S.T. Corporation of Sparta is an outgrowth of Sculptured Advertising) with unfinished prop displays, perhaps made of fi...
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Service Station with Vending Machine

Date: 09 04 1967
Description: A service station decorated with a flowers in a window box. On the left is a Pepsi-Cola vending machine.
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Allbert Hansen

Date: 1970
Description: Albert Hansen posed by a vehicle along E6 in Oslo, Norway.
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Achille Starace, "The Sly"

Date: 04 1938
Description: Achille Starace, Secretary of the Italian Fascist Party. American journalist Cecil Brown was able to get close to the man, labeled "Starace, the Sly" in hi...
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Fascist Leaders

Date: 1938
Description: Fascist leader Dino Alfieri (facing the camera), Minister of Popular Culture in Italy.
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Mowrer-Cole Wedding

Date: 04 28 1939
Description: The wedding of journalist Richard Scott Mowrer of the "Chicago Daily News" (hat in hand) and Rosemund Emily Cole in Rome, Italy. Mowrer had just been expel...
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A New Pope is Born

Date: 03 12 1939
Description: Journalist Cecil Brown, who was reporting for CBS from Rome, Italy, took this picture of the crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican awaiting the coron...
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Romantic Gondola Ride

Date: 07 1938
Description: CBS journalist Cecil Brown, who was then reporting from Rome, Italy, is seen here in a Venetian gondola with Martha, his new bride, during their honeymoon.

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