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Flicker Pinball Machine

Date: 12 28 1938
Description: Flicker Pinball Machine taken for Dane Co. Sheriff Dept.
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Galloping Plugs Pinball Machine

Date: 12 28 1938
Description: Galloping Plugs (horses) Pinball Machine taken for Dane Co. Sheriff Dept.
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Nash Cars at Governor Julius P. Heil's Inauguration

Date: 01 02 1939
Description: Four Nash automobiles at Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Station, 219 S. Blair Street, with Milwaukee Road passenger car in the background. The occasion i...
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E-Z Pickin' Game of Chance

Date: 12 28 1938
Description: E-Z Pickin' game of chance. Taken for Dane Co. Sheriff Dept.
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Pinball Machine

Date: 12 28 1938
Description: "Daily Races" pinball machine, manufactured by Gottlieb in 1936. The playing surface shows horse racing scenes. The machines was likely seized as a gamblin...
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Bee Jay Pinball Machine

Date: 12 28 1938
Description: Bee Jay Pinball Machine, and Anchor Mills Inc. Chicago, Ill., on another game taken for Dane Co. Sheriff Dept.
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Bob Jr., and Bob III

Date: 1930
Description: Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., on the porch at Maple Bluff Farm with his wife and two of his brother's children, Judy and Robert M. La Follette, III. ...
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Niels-Larsen Granary in Deerfield

Date: 1976
Description: Niels-Larsen granary on its original site, before its removal to Old World Wisconsin, Eagle, Wis;, where it was erected on the Norwegian site.
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Football Player on Scale

Date: 11 24 1944
Description: A football player standing on a scale.
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Dane County Jail

Date: 1901
Description: The Dane County Jail. To the right is the sheriff's residence.
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602 Frances Street

Date: 1900
Description: Cyanotype image of 602 Frances Street, located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Frances and Langdon Streets. The house served as the Chi Psi ...
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Tourists Among Burial Mounds

Date: 1910
Description: A sightseeing party wanders among cows and Native American burial mounds near the popular picnic area at Merrill Springs, on the south shore of Lake Mendot...
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Modernization in SHSW Library

Date: 1955
Description: Ceiling high scaffolding in the Wisconsin Historical Society Library reading room, with a man and a woman attempting to study at the tables in the foregrou...
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Lucille Kellar

Date: 1955
Description: Lucille Kellar, coordinator of the Historical Society's McCormick Collection, with the new cases for the collection. She is standing outside the north entr...
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Main and Monona Streets

Date: 1945
Description: View from the corner of Main and Monona Streets looking east toward the Tenney Building.
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Clothesline

Date: 07 24 1960
Description: Laundry hangs on a clothesline and blows in the wind. There are fields behind, and low hills in the distance.
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Sunlight Coming Through a Treeline

Date: 06 1960
Description: Sunlight comes through a line of trees, as seen from a nearby field.
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Cornfield in High Wind

Date: 11 06 1960
Description: A rural scene of a cornfield blowing in the wind. Beyond trees in the background is a farm.
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Snow-Covered Field

Date: 11 06 1960
Description: A roadside edge of a field near a fence covered in snow.
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Madison Strikers

Date: 10 1975
Description: Picket line of Madison Local 444 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers union on strike against the Packerland Packing Co.

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