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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Drawing of a covered bridge in Cedarburg. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Railroad depot for the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Saint Marie railroad company's trains. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view of the Henry Merrell house, built about 1833. Snow is on the ground. |
| Date: | 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Campaign brochure of Howard J. McMurray, former congressman and political scientist, issued for his unsuccessful campaign against Joseph R. McCarthy in the... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of downtown area, including a river. |
| Date: | 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Little Finland Cabins featuring a steam bath. There is a large woodpile at one side of the building. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Memorial Union Theater on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. There is a railing with steps in the foreground, leading to a paved w... |
| Date: | 02 22 1947 |
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| Description: | The Seaman's Body Local 75 bowling team. |
| Date: | 01 14 1948 |
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| Description: | A view from behind the bar in the Lutheran Center Bowling Alley of happy patrons enjoying a beer. One of the two bartenders is also enjoying a beverage. |
| Date: | 04 24 1948 |
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| Description: | A man with a "King Pin" bowling pin crown on his head peers through curtains at the Lithographers Intercity Bowling Dinner Dance. |
| Date: | 03 29 1947 |
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| Description: | The Local 1131 UE Winders bowling team at the Milwaukee County Bowling Tournament. From left to right are Chester Chojnacki, Louis Mersho, team captain Car... |
| Date: | 03 31 1948 |
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| Description: | A team portrait of the Lauftenberg Brothers Company women's bowling team at the Lutheran Center. |
| Date: | 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Gothic roofed barn with river scene painted on its roof by Frank Engebretson. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two sailors and two women are seated at a table smoking cigarettes and drinking beer, while another woman stands playing an accordion for them. Around the ... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Crew of the U.S.S. Franklin watching a vaudeville performance from their hangar deck. The performance took place just seven days after the ship was ... |
| Date: | 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Two medics tend to a wounded soldier laying on a cot at a field hospital at Okinawa. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Flight nurse student checking on two patients sleeping in bunks. |
| Date: | 05 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A log gate and log-framed sign mark the entrance to the Twin River (Rawley) Point lighthouse. The keeper's house is next to the light and has a turret and ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The State Street side of the Wisconsin Historical Society building and sidewalk. A large tree is in the left foreground. Bascom Hill is in the Background. |
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