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Main Street in Cochrane

Date: 1910
Description: Main Street looking north. "Hotel and Saloon" are on the right side, along with other buildings down the right and left side. Main Street is a dirt road. T...
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Wausau Club House

Date: 1905
Description: View across intersection toward the Wausau Club House which has a wrap-around porch, and steps on two sides. There is a little girl standing on the sidewal...
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Visitors Watch a Burial Mound Excavation

Date: 1935
Description: Members of the Wisconsin Outing Club watch the excavation of a burial mound at the Outlet group in 1935.
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Tall-tale Postcard: One of the Squash

Date: 1910
Description: Three smiling children wearing white clothing are sitting atop a gigantic, dark squash. Text in top left corner reads: "Beaver Dam, Wis." Fence lines back ...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Riding a Pig

Date: 1916
Description: Two girls wearing white dresses ride a pig, sitting back-to-back. One girl holds the pig's tail and the other holds its ears. A boy pokes the pig's haunch ...
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Norwegian Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the Norwegian Methodist Episcopal Chruch. There are five people, probably a family, posing in front of the building. Caption reads: "Norwe...
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones and His Mother

Date: 1911
Description: Georgia Lloyd Jones, wife of Richard Lloyd Jones, holds her son on a rocking horse.
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Eddie Carthan Victory Party

Date: 1982
Description: Victory celebration for Eddie Carthan, the black activist mayor of Tchula, Mississippi. Carthan was convicted on charges of robbery and murder in 1981. Thi...
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Movie Set at Old World Wisconsin

Date: 1990
Description: Tourists visit the historic Seven-Mile Inn at Old World Wisconsin transformed for its role as the Daleyville Bank in the ABC made-for-TV movie "Dillinger".
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Group of Seminole Native Americans

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Description: A group of Seminole Native American men, women, and children in front of a structure with a thatched roof in the Everglades area. There are twenty individu...
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Seminole Native Americans at Fort Pierce

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Description: A group of Seminole Native Americans consisting of two men, two boys and two girls sitting outside on the porch of a building with one man cutting what loo...
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Seneca Native American Family

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Description: A group portrait of a Seneca Native American family, with a man, woman, four children, and a kitten. Caption reads: "Seneca Indian Family, Salamanca, N.Y."
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Tall-tale Postcard: String Beans

Date: 1910
Description: Two girls stand in front of a large pile of giant string beans. Red text in the upper portion of the image reads, "How we do things at Ihlen, Minn."
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Campaigning for Reelection

Date: 10 1980
Description: Vice-president Walter Mondale campaigning for reelection in Wisconsin. To Mondale's right, and partially obscured, is Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, who...
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Men at the Brigham Farm

Date: 04 21 1911
Description: Group of men and a young boy breaking hemp at the Brigham farm.
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Alma and William O. Petersen

Date: 09 03 1932
Description: A smiling William Otto Petersen poses with his mother, Alma Schmidt Petersen on a rustic bench at Green Mountain Falls, Colorado. William is wearing shorts...
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Roadside Scene with Japanese Women

Date: 05 1945
Description: Soldier offering food to Japanese women and children gathered on a roadside in Okinawa. One woman wears a baby on her back. Other soldiers watch from a jee...
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Horse-Drawn Carriage at Black Point

Date: 1980
Description: View from lawn of a man holding the harness of a team of two horses hitched to an open carriage on the brick drive at Black Point. A large group looks on f...
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X-Ray Machine

Date: 1926
Description: A group of women and children surround a woman who is standing on an X-Ray machine (fluoroscope) to determine if her shoes fit. A man on the right is opera...
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Vel Phillips Stands near Child Sitting on Watermelons

Date: 06 1972
Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a brown and blue patterned dress is holding a bouquet of flowers. She stands near a young girl wearing a dress sitting on a pile of w...

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