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| 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. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 08 27 1973 |
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| Description: | "Christian Herald" editor Kenneth L. Wilson, left, and publisher, Fen Loomer look through some of the over 25,000 pieces of mail with over 160,000 signatur... |
| Date: | 11 25 1965 |
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| Description: | A man takes pleasure in the carving of the Thanksgiving turkey, with other food items in the foreground and vending machines behind him. |
| Date: | 10 11 1981 |
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| Description: | Jim Niemann decorates dipped chocolates at his family's business, Niemann's Home Made Chocolate Shop. |
| Date: | 12 19 1962 |
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| Description: | Hilgendorf's Hardware store clerk showing a saw to a customer. |
| Date: | 12 14 1967 |
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| Description: | A secretary in the pathology department at St. Joseph's Hospital working at a new computer. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A young boy helps his grandfather unload a cart of split logs. |
| Date: | 09 19 1959 |
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| Description: | View towards a firefighter standing with his back to the camera as he is aiming a fire hose towards the flames. |
| Date: | 09 08 1956 |
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| Description: | Butcher Herman Nimmer positions his hand saw to cut a slab of meat. |
| Date: | 09 08 1937 |
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| Description: | Men standing with Farmall 12 tractors ready for shipment at International Harvester's Neuss Works in Germany. |
| Date: | 07 08 1988 |
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| Description: | Two women lifeguards sun themselves at the edge of Horeb Park pool during a rotation break. |
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