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Early Apothecary Shop Exhibit

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Description: Early Apothecary Shop exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry.
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Ada Nye At Radio Set

Date: 1922
Description: Ada Nye (Nemshoff) listening to a crystal radio set at the home of her aunt and uncle Ben and Ida Tovrog. Her cousin Lou Tovrog built the radio set.
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International 464 Tractor

Date: 1973
Description: International 464 tractor in a studio.
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Passenger Pigeon

Date: 1896
Description: A passenger pigeon on a perch. The passenger pigeon is now extinct. Part of a group of pigeons that lived in captivity in the aviary of Professor C.O. Whit...
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Republican Convention Delegates

Date: 07 07 1952
Description: Cyrus Philipp, Wisconsin Republican Party committeeman (and a Taft supporter) with fellow national convention delegate Harlen Kelley, the blind and handica...
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Wayne Morse at a Crossroads

Date: 07 07 1952
Description: Republican Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon wears the "I LIke Ike" button while standing on the floor of the national party convention in Chicago. Born in Wi...
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Democratic Delegates

Date: 07 21 1952
Description: National Democratic Convention delegates Herman Jessen and Henry Reuss stand on the convention floor. Reuss had been actively campaigning for months for t...
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Worker at Tractor Works

Date: 1950
Description: Factory worker Charles Coseniro(?) examines the contents of a box in a warehouse at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Tractor Works Parts Storage

Date: 1950
Description: A female factory worker is looking at an index card in what appears to be a parts storage area at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The boxes stacke...
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The Lincoln Monument

Date: 1887
Description: Augustus Saint-Gaudens' monument to Abraham Lincoln, installed 1887. Image shows the bronze sculpture from its foot framed by young foliage in the backgro...
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Republican National Convention

Date: 07 07 1952
Description: Portrait of Senator Bernhard Gettelman, Milwaukee, left, and Frederick H. Holtz, Milwaukee, both Warren delegates on the convention floor at the Chicago Re...
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Republican National Convention

Date: 07 07 1952
Description: Former Governor Philip F. La Follette, a Warren alternate, left, chats with Henry Ringling, Baraboo, who will be named Wisconsin's new national GOP committ...
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Republican National Convention

Date: 07 07 1952
Description: Wisconsin Secretary of State Fred R. Zimmerman (left) chats with Charles P. Curran of Mauston at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
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Republican National Convention

Date: 07 07 1952
Description: Lynn Irwin of Madison, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Irwin, visits with Marbeth Miller of Marshfield at the Republican National Convention in Chicago....
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Republican National Convention

Date: 07 07 1952
Description: Harlan W. Kelley of Baraboo, is disabled. He is the Sauk County district attorney, and talks with Cyrus L. Phillips of Milwaukee at the Republican National...
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Republican National Convention

Date: 07 07 1952
Description: Jack Rouse of Baraboo (left), executive secretary of the Wisconsin Republican party, gets some advice from attorney Lyall T. Beggs of Madison. Beggs was a ...
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Democratic National Convention

Date: 07 21 1952
Description: Senator Gaylord Nelson, Madison chairman of the Wisconsin delegation to the Democratic National Convention stands between two pages — Marilyn Mayer from Il...
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Democratic National Convention

Date: 07 21 1952
Description: Mrs. Marguerite Rogers of Prairie du Chien, who served 16 years as clerk of Crawford County and in 1950 ran for the Assembly, and Richard McKnight, South W...
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Democratic National Convention

Date: 07 21 1952
Description: Ed Nix, Eau Claire, left, chairman of Wisconsin Young Democrats, and Sen. William Draheim, Neenah, a delegate at large, talk it over at the Democratic Nati...
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Democratic National Convention

Date: 07 21 1952
Description: John P. Duffy, Green Bay, (seated) and Ray Forcier, Eau Claire, huddle at Convention Hall. Forcier is on the rules committee.

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