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Harold F. McCormick Family and Friends

Date: 1922
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Harold Fowler McCormick family, friends and servants at Walnut Grove. Left to right (seated): Kathleen (Mrs. Rush) Searson, F...
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Loading Dock at McCormick Factory(?)

Date: 1900
Description: Wagons loaded with wood along a loading dock outside an agency or factory of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company.
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"Air Circus" Product Placement

Date: 1928
Description: "Air Circus" (Fox 1928) is the story of two flight school cadets (only David Rollins is pictured) and an accomplished aviatrix, Sue Carol, who can fly ring...
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Fire at Wisconsin State Capitol (Third)

Date: 02 27 1904
Description: Spectators near the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol watching the fire that eventually destroyed most of the building.
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Surveying Fire Damage

Date: 02 1904
Description: Ruins of the second floor of the North Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol, looking south, after the fire. The blaze nearly destroyed the entire buil...
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Disk Harrow

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Description: Charley Sharpe and Fred Jones working with a disk harrow in a field. The disk harrow is pulled by four horses. Original caption reads: "Charley Sharpe and...
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Men Gathered at Water Pump

Date: 1909
Description: Group of men and a boy gathered near a body of water. The men are sitting around a water pump.
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Butternut House

Date: 1953
Description: View of the Butternut House in the Kohler Foundation restoration project. The service building at the right in the background is operated by the Conservati...
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State Normal School

Date: 1881
Description: State Normal School in Whitewater.
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Children Sledding on North Pinckney Street

Date: 1915
Description: Winter scene with children sledding down 400 block of North Pinckney Street, Madison, Wisconsin, including 10 boys on a coasting bobsled. Three houses are ...
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Herfurth House

Date: 1951
Description: The front door of the Herfurth house, 703 East Gorham Street, built by Theodore Herfurth around 1870 and owned in 1952 by Mrs. Ralph Dennis. A woman is sta...
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Laird and South Vietnamese Soldier

Date: 1971
Description: The Secretary of Defense presentoing a medal to a South Vietnamese soldier during a South Asian tour.
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Ottawa Farm Machinery Co.

Date: 05 03 1929
Description: Exterior of the Ottawa Farm Machinery Company, an International Harvester dealership. Agricultural equipment and machinery are visible through the storefro...
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Duplex Hole-Digging Machine

Date: 1938
Description: Three men - one in work clothes and the other two men wearing suits and hats - looking down into a hole near an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tra...
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Man Using Oliver Plow

Date: 1920
Description: Rear view of a man using an Oliver plow pulled by a team of two horses to work around a tree in a field. A railroad train is in the background.
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Foggy View of Lake Steamer

Date: 10 1962
Description: Lake steamer at dock, in fog. To the right is the boom of a crane. In front of the steamer is a tugboat.
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Amateur Athletic Union Competition

Date: 1957
Description: Richard Allen of the Whitefish Bay Recreation Club swimming in a state Amateur Athletic Union competition.
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Semi-Centennial Arch

Date: 1898
Description: Decorated arch erected on State Street as part of the Semi-Centennial celebration of statehood. The arch bears a representation of Commodore Dewey's victor...
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Officers Lois Amsler and Linda Reaves

Date: 08 27 1987
Description: Two police officers posing together outdoors. Caption reads: "Officers Lois Amsler (left) and Linda Reaves offer advice on personal safety."

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