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Scene Still from "The Blot"

Date: 1921
Description: Louis Calhern and Claire Windsor in "The Blot" (Lois Weber Productions).
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Scene still from The Blot

Date: 1921
Description: Publicity still from The Blot. Louis Calhern with flowers at the front door with Margaret McWade. (Lois Weber Productions, 1921).
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A Fur Trader in the Council Tepee

Date: 02 1892
Description: Engraving of a fur trader standing in the middle of a circle of seated Indians in their council tepee.
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Voyageurs in Camp for the Night

Date: 03 1892
Description: Engraving of voyageurs gathered around a fire at their camp.
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African American Tenant Farmers at Barbecue

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing...
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View from Main Hall (Bascom Hall) toward Lake Monona

Date: 1861
Description: View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. South Hall is in the foreground, with several residences an...
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View from Main Hall (Bascom Hall) toward Lake Monona

Date: 1861
Description: View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. South Hall is in the foreground with several residences an...
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View from Main Hall (Bascom Hall) toward the Wisconsin State Capitol (Second)

Date: 1861
Description: View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus looking up State Street toward the second Wisconsin State Ca...
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View from Main Hall (Bascom Hall) toward Lake Mendota

Date: 1861
Description: View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. North Hall is in the foreground with several residences and...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Competition

Date: 1906
Description: Architect's design of the 4th Wisconsin State Capitol (the third built in Madison). "Perspective" by George B. Post and Sons.
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Men Pull Maxwell Automobile on Muddy Road

Date: 02 21 1915
Description: Three men pulling a Maxwell Model 25 touring automobile through a muddy road. Original caption reads: "On the road from Union Springs, and Tuskeegee, Ala.,...
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Collard's Hill

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Description: Log house located at the top of Collard's Hill. Two children are standing near the house.
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Ku Klux Klan Funeral

Date: 12 05 1924
Description: Klansmen of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) wearing conic masks and white robes gather in front of St. James Lutheran Church, Verona, for the funeral of Herbert C. ...
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American Club

Date: 1925
Description: The American Club, a fine club house for workers in a modern industrial villiage near Sheboygan. It was built by Kohler Manufacturing Company as a part of ...
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Langdon Street

Date: 1905
Description: Langdon Street and the lower campus of the University of Wisconsin, including the Armory (Red Gym or Old Red).
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Wisconsin State College

Date: 1957
Description: Wisconsin State College (later renamed the University of Wisconsin-Platteville). The Student Union is in final stages of construction, and in the foregroun...
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Orchard Ridge School

Date: 1958
Description: Aerial view of Orchard Ridge School, at 5602 Russett Road.
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Tractor Transport

Date: 1937
Description: Men load I-12 tractors onto a train at International Harvester's Neuss Works in Germany.
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International Harvester Transfer House

Date: 1933
Description: Street scene with several buildings painted with the words "International Harvester Company of America". The building in the foreground has the words, "Tra...
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Logging Camp Crew

Date: 1905
Description: Logging crew posed in snow at a logging camp.

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