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| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Ray and Carl Breecher's Heath parasol monoplane while still under construction in their father's garage. Despite extensive modification, the plane crashed ... |
| Date: | 06 15 1934 |
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| Description: | A home built Pietenpol buit by members of the Waukesha Aviation Club after its initial flight. They are Chet Wolt, Jack Leeman, Dean Crites, and Bob Lathro... |
| Date: | 12 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Flicker Pinball Machine taken for Dane Co. Sheriff Dept. |
| Date: | 12 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Galloping Plugs (horses) Pinball Machine taken for Dane Co. Sheriff Dept. |
| Date: | 01 02 1939 |
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| Description: | Four Nash automobiles at Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Station, 219 S. Blair Street, with Milwaukee Road passenger car in the background. The occasion i... |
| Date: | 12 28 1938 |
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| Description: | E-Z Pickin' game of chance. Taken for Dane Co. Sheriff Dept. |
| Date: | 12 28 1938 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Bee Jay Pinball Machine, and Anchor Mills Inc. Chicago, Ill., on another game taken for Dane Co. Sheriff Dept. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Workers working on the construction of the drafting studio at the Taliesin Fellowship Complex used by the Taliesin Fellowship. The Romeo and Juliet windmil... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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. ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A Native American woman is sitting on the ground preparing corn for drying. A man, with arms akimbo, is standing nearby, observing. Husked corn is piled on... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A marker for the first log cabin built in the Janesville area. The cabin was built in 1835 by William Holmes, Joshua Holmes, John Inman and George Follmer.... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The Octagon House was built by General Francis Henry West. The photograph was taken late in 1930 and it shows the original "carpenter's lace" and other por... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A church in Montfort; the parson was Reverend Ebenezer Williams. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Mississippi River from the Brisbois Mansion. Left to right: Dousman House Hotel, railroad station, electrical plant smokestack, Diamond Jo warehouse, and a... |
| Date: | 03 1939 |
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| Description: | A man mapping a planted stand of white pines in Devil's Lake State Park. He is wearing snowshoes. |
| Date: | 10 1939 |
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| Description: | Eradication of the blister rust threat to Wisconsin's white pine forest created a joint federal-state effort that was almost military in its proportions. H... |
| Date: | 03 1938 |
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| Description: | A large white pine being felled on the Menominee Indian Reservation. This photograph was taken to illustrate the tribe's selective logging practices. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Fruits and Vegetables Building at the Wisconsin State Fair, showing the dining room and the tables decorated with lavish floral displa... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An Indian trail marker erected "in honor of our pioneers". This trail later became the Plank Road between Sheboygan and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The first h... |
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