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Town Hall

Date: 1960
Description: Exterior view of the Town of Madison town hall building located at 2120 Fish Hatchery Road.
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Wisconsin Central Railway Shops

Date: 1890
Description: Interior of the Wisconsin Central Railway's Waukesha back shop. The elevated view is from the office of the superintendent.
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Cutting Sugar Cane

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Description: A group of agricultural workers cutting sugar cane, possibly in Morgan City. In the foreground, a young man sits on a pile of sugar cane, chewing on cane s...
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Cutting Sugar Cane

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Description: A group of agricultural laborers cutting sugar cane by hand. In the foreground, a young man sits on a pile of harvested sugar cane, chewing on cane sugar. ...
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Sigurd Olson Going Home

Date: 06 06 1946
Description: Sigurd F. Olson, standing, on a C-47 plane en route from Berlin to Frankfort, and then home to Minnesota.
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Five O'clock Club Beer, Label

Date: 1936
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Five O'clock Club Beer, A. Gettelman Brewing Company." The label features the silhou...
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$1000 Reward, Beer Label

Date: 1933
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "$1000 Reward, Pure Malt & Hops, Natural Process, Lager Beer, A. Gettelman Brewing Co...
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Noel Alexander Gillespie

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Description: A candid, head and shoulders portrait of Noel Alexander Gillepie wearing a suit. Behind him on a brick wall is a plaque with the number 1010 on it.
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Women and Children in Substandard Housing

Date: 1956
Description: Woman and four children seated in front of a makeshift tent that serves as their home. There is a washtub and washboard in the foreground and laundry hangs...
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The Steamboat "Mendota" on Lake Mendota

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Description: View across water towards the steamboat "Mendota" reflected in the water of Lake Mendota with at least nine people on board. The far shoreline is in the ba...
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Dad the Photographer

Date: 1910
Description: A view of Howard "Dad" Greene photographing an Indian man and a dog next to a jerky-drying frame. They are in an Indian village at the mouth of the Namakan...
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Holt Family Dog

Date: 08 1923
Description: In the foreground, the Holt family dog, an English Cocker Spaniel, is looking up at freshly-caught fish on a stringer held by a man standing behind with a ...
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At the Lake Mills Hostel

Date: 1942
Description: Katy La Bruzzo, Tina Fedele, and Catherine Gandolph posed with their bicycles at the Lake Mills Hostel on their bicycle trip with the Neighborhood House Am...

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