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| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Two ornamental sculptures at the base of the Wisconsin State Capitol dome. The figures represent Abundance and Prosperity. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View looking down East Washington Avenue from the Capitol at Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 08 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., and an unidentified elderly woman, toast each other with paper cups of milk. They are standing near the Department of Agric... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Fairgoers ride a tractor-drawn passenger wagon at the Fair. In the background is the Sky King roller coaster. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | The Rennebohm Drug Store #5, located at 2000 Atwood Avenue, Schenk's Corners from 1952-1961. It was previously located at 1951 Winnebago Street. This store... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | The Waelderhaus a memorial planned for John Michael Kohler the founder of the Kohler Company, by his daughter, Marie Christine Kohler. Waelderhaus is a rep... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | The Kennedy home, 215 North Pinckney Street, built in 1870. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | F.W. Woolworth store on East Main Street at Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard), showing the old Vilas block (aka Pioneer Building). |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Two students, a boy and a girl, with their dog, apparently walking home from school, an image that seems to capture the essence of life for rural Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Pierce house, 424 North Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 11 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Gaylord Nelson, the Democratic candidate for governor, emerging from the voting booth. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Gertrude Martin, operator for Hazan's Telephone Supermarket, at her desk with a phone in her hand. Behind her a chalkboard displays a reminder to "suggest ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Construction worker Buddis Stone at the site of the Mammoth Pool Dam along the San Joaquin River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Stone bored holes for expl... |
| Date: | 06 1952 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin greets his nephew, Kelly Kornely, at a Republican campaign event in Wisconsin. Also with McCarthy is Assemblyman G... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | LeRoy Gore, the Sauk City journalist who organized the "Joe Must Go!" petition drive to recall Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Gore had supported McCarthy in ... |
| Date: | 04 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Editorial cartoon of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy showing the surprised Senator learning of the "Joe Must Go" recall petition effort. |
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