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Date: | 1933 |
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Description: | Cutters from the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America union picket a Reed Brothers Company lockout. |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | Mr. Robot, a coin operated milk vending machine promoted by the Wisconsin Dairy Caravan, dispenses milk into a paper cup. |
Date: | 06 21 1987 |
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Description: | Shoppers take refuge in the open doorway of a shop during a downpour. |
Date: | 06 25 1988 |
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Description: | St. Dominic's Catholic Parish members tend the grills at their annual festival. |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of James Duane Doty, who was a Wisconsin judge, territorial governor, congressman, and land speculator. |
Date: | 07 20 1914 |
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Description: | A crane places the gilded bronze statue, "Wisconsin," by Daniel Chester French, on top of the Wisconsin State Capitol dome. |
Date: | 02 27 1904 |
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Description: | The east wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol is surrounded by onlookers during the disastrous fire that caused severe damage. The conflagration began... |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | General William "Billy" Mitchell in full dress uniform. |
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Description: | A portrait of aviation manufacturer Glenn L. Martin, inscribed to aviation publicist, Harry Bruno. Bruno's papers are available for research at the Wiscons... |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | Portrait of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. |
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Description: | Portrait of Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit, Wisconsin, about 1950, with a model of his first speedometer. Even today, most automobiles are equipped with sp... |
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Description: | An autographed portrait of Thomas S. Baldwin, builder of the early "Red Devil" airplanes and the first dirigible purchased by the U.S. Army. |
Date: | 01 09 1923 |
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Description: | Portrait of Alexander Legge (1866-1933). Legge was president of International Harvester Company from 1922 to 1929. He was vice chairman of the War Industri... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand. |
Date: | 01 27 1968 |
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Description: | Woman working on a wire harness for the lunar module section of an Apollo spacecraft at the AC Electronics division of General Motors Corp. plant. |
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Description: | Monograph of famous Norwegian violinist Ole Bull holding his violin and bow. |
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Description: | A woman and two small boys are sitting at a typewriter in the kitchen. |
Date: | 12 19 1968 |
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Description: | A vocational student holds a badger at The Ranch, a training center for mentally and physically disabled young adults. |
Date: | 12 28 1962 |
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Description: | Jean Meyer plays with the sucker she got at a mother-daugher Christmas holiday tea. |
Date: | 09 12 1971 |
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Description: | Children fashioned their seesaw using a board, and a barricade with a sign that reads: "Road Closed" that they found in an empty lot. |
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