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Model Builders

Date: 1934
Description: The members of Hangar 13, a group of Beloit youth organized to build and race model airplanes. Conrad Hansen, their organizer, is standing at left in the b...
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Chippewa Family

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Description: A Native American (Ojibwa) family photographed on the Lac du Flambeau reservation. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul...
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Boys on Mississippi River

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Description: Groups of boys on the Mississippi River shore undressing for a swim. Alma is visible across the river.
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Portage Canal and Lock

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view of the Portage canal and lock, with the Indian Agency House in the center background. The canal was dug in 1849 as part of the Fox-Wisconsin ...
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Baird House

Date: 1890
Description: View of the H.S. Baird house.
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Women's Building

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Description: Fairgoers walk past the Women's Building at the Wisconsin State Fair. The sign on the front reads: Women's Dept."
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Horticulture Building at the State Fair

Date: 1927
Description: Crowds walking past the Horticulture Building at the Wiconsin State Fair. In a pavilion above the building the Aluminum Goose Manufacturing Co. Band of Ma...
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Fair Midway Crowds

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Description: Elevated view of crowds packing the Midway at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Bond Historical Site Marker

Date: 1930
Description: The Bond historical site marker, marking the home where Carrie Jacobs Bond wrote "I Love You Truly."
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Executive Residence

Date: 1965
Description: The Executive Residence, 130 East Gilman Street. Used as the Executive Residence from 1883-1950.
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Lincoln School

Date: 1920
Description: Lincoln School with trees in the foreground.
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Eugene A. Gilmore House

Date: 1965
Description: The Eugene A. Gilmore house, 120 Ely Place, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, architect.
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Dean Family Sleighing

Date: 1852
Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of Eliab Dean, an early Madison businessman, riding in a sleigh drawn by two horses with his wife Sarah Fairchild Dean and youn...
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Vesper, Wisconsin

Date: 1895
Description: View of several buildings and horse-drawn stagecoaches in Vesper.
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Vesper, Wisconsin

Date: 1895
Description: View of Vesper, featuring various buildings.
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Excavation of Goose Effigy on University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus

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Description: Charles E. Brown (left), directs excavation of a goose effigy mound at the Willow Drive mound group on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Turner's Academy

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of Professor Turner's academy.
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Jacob Karlan Block

Date: 1955
Description: The Jacob Karlan block, built in 1893 on the north side of Monroe Street. The Karlan block was erected on the site of the old United States Hotel, adjoinin...
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Dousman Warehouse

Date: 1870
Description: Dousman Warehouse, East Water Street. Originally located on the wharf parallel with the river. Built and used by George and Talbot, brothers of Hercules Do...
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Federal Bird Warden

Date: 1921
Description: J.M. Eheim posing outdoors with multiple birdhouses.

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