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Vote Recording Machine

Date: 1919
Description: Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Main Avenue

Date: 1950
Description: Caption reads: "Looking West on Main Ave." View down center of commercial area, with automobiles moving down the street, and parked along the curbs. A U.S....
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Polperro House

Date: 1945
Description: A restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, on Shake Rag Street. The house was temporarily covered with siding, but after restoration the siding was...
Postcard

Monument Square

Date: 1910
Description: Racine Monument Square at night. Caption reads: "Monument Square at Night, Racine, Wis."
Postcard

Main Street from Fifth Street

Date: 1915
Description: View down sidewalk on left side of street. Caption reads: "Main St. looking North from 5th St., Racine, Wis."
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Music Hall

Date: 1930
Description: View from Bascom Hill of Music Hall and Library on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus
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Milwaukee Movie Set

Date: 1990
Description: Costumed actors on a Third Ward street transformed to represent the 1930s for the made-for-TV movie "Dillinger".
Historical Object

Autochrome Lumiere Plate Box Cover

Date: 1907
Description: Autochrome Lumiere plate box cover that originally contained four plates (plaques).
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Men with Shop Mule

Date: 1937
Description: H.H. Harrell, seated behind the wheel of an International-powered shop mule, receives instructions from the general foreman, H.J. McClusky. The text on th...
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Test Site Arrest

Date: 04 1997
Description: Arrest of Nukewatch demonstrators at a Nevada test site.
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Capital Offenses

Date: 1996
Description: Congressman David Obey (playing the harmonica) of Wisconsin with his two sons, Douglas and Craig, performing as part of the Capital Offenses, a bluegrass b...
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Vel Phillips and Mother Naomi Scott

Date: 12 1997
Description: Vel Phillips sitting, on left, and looking on as Mother Naomi Scott speaks into a microphone at a podium at the Community Brainstorming Conference.
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Sheryl Albers at Tommy Thompson Birthday Party

Date: 11 19 1994
Description: Sheryl Albers speaking from behind a podium, during what an attached note says is Governor Tommy Thompson's birthday party. The governor is standing and sm...
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Two Men

Date: 1930
Description: Two men are smoking cigarettes outdoors. They are wearing turbans and traditional dress, and are sitting on a colorful rug with long fringe. A pair of sho...
Postcard

City Hall and Mifflin Street

Date: 1910
Description: View across street towards City Hall located at 2 West Mifflin (corner with Wisconsin Avenue). The building has three stories and a clock tower. Caption Re...
Postcard

Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1994
Description: View of the South Hamilton Street entrance to the Capitol. A round tulip bed is in the foreground, and more tulip beds are along the sidewalk leading to th...
Photograph

Forest Lodge Boathouse

Date: 1997
Description: View of a two-story vertical-log structure surrounded by a lower deck and an upper deck with a pipe railing. There are ten double-hung windows, two wood do...
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Forest Lodge Boathouse

Date: 1957
Description: Large two-story vertical log boathouse with an elevator shaft, located on Lake Namakagon. A small sailboat is tied to the boathouse dock.

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