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| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Group of people on the front porch, weighing the guests. A visit was considered successful if the guests weighed more when they left. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | This was the first boat & sled-type windsled built on Madeline Island. Built by Elmer Nelson for Howard Russell between 1950-1951. Had a 9-cylinder R-680-E... |
| Date: | 1834 |
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| Description: | Press release image compiled by the International Harvester Company. The image includes "excerpts of the patent grant from the U.S. Patent Office to Cyrus ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Color guards marching past the Wisconsin State Capitol carrying flags as a crowd looks on. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view looking west at the front of the Oscar Mayer meat processing plant with a sign on the building which reads "Meat serves everybody". |
| Date: | 10 28 1928 |
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| Description: | Al Smith and his National Chairman John Raskob on the porch of the Raskob home. |
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| Description: | Cartoon of Dwight D. Eisenhower with electric chairs for teeth. The image is very likely in reference to the Rosenberg spy case. |
| Date: | 10 06 1946 |
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| Description: | Branch managers tour Melrose Park Works. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | "Gen." Wooster Harrison house, built in 1835. It was reported to have housed Abraham Lincoln overnight. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of City Hall and North Water Street in downtown Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 06 09 1954 |
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| Description: | McCarthy-Army hearings. Left to right: G. David Schine, Joseph R. McCarthy, and Roy Cohn. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | An engraved head and shoulders portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., during the period when he was the governor of Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
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| Description: | Interior of the parlor at "Walden", the estate of Cyrus McCormick, Jr. |
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| Description: | Formal studio portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr., his wife, and their two sons. McCormick was president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company from... |
| Date: | 10 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Portrait of George Stahl, chimney sweep, with a pipe in his mouth, and wearing a tall hat and carrying a bag and a rope around his shoulder. He is standing... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Fred MacMurray, on the right, as a young boy outdoors in winter with his friend Randall McKinstry. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Agnes Moorehead as a child, posing with a parasol next to a chair in front of a photographic studio painted backdrop. She is wearing a white dress and has ... |
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