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| Date: | 08 15 1981 |
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| Description: | Michael Persten standing behind the prescription counter of The Medicine Shop, a pharmacy he opened in Wauwatosa. |
| Date: | 03 27 1989 |
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| Description: | Father on a bicycle towing son on a scooter. |
| Date: | 05 15 1943 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Historical Society museum display of railroad lanterns in the "Building Wisconsin Railroads" exhibit. |
| Date: | 11 10 1963 |
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| Description: | Male students run data cards through a computer to match couples for a school dance. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A kitchen counter is a good perch for a teenage girl's telephone conversation. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Camp Randall Stadium and Field House on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Camp Randall Stadium with the University of Wisconsin heating plant in foreground. |
| Date: | 06 17 1987 |
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| Description: | Kids smiling gleefully on the Tilt-a-Whirl carnival ride while workers manage the controls in the background on a sunny summer day. |
| Date: | 05 14 1987 |
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| Description: | A couple holds hands and reads together while sitting on a bench. |
| Date: | 10 17 1968 |
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| Description: | An elderly man and woman make new cane seats for chairs at the Cedar Lake Home for the Aged. |
| Date: | 10 12 1984 |
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| Description: | Men wearing Ronald Reagan masks and dunce caps make their way through a crowd. |
| Date: | 03 17 1987 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters use a board game to simulate conditions at a fire scene as part of their training. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man sets up a cone-shaped instrument designed to distill fresh water from salt water as he leans out of a small motor boat on the water. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Students from Platteville, Wisconsin tour a mine to see how lead is extracted. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Personnel of the Walter L. Main show in 1904 and 1905, photographed outside a tent, include clowns, the driver of a four horse chariot, and air performers.... |
| Date: | 08 23 1901 |
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| Description: | The stage and surrounding posters of Professor Oscar John Schendel's "All Star Vaudeville, Big Three-Ringed Circus, and Mammoth Menagerie." |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Interior of Beloit First Congregational Church. View from aisle towards the organ and altar. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | View of street corner on Hanchett's block, on the northeast corner of State and Brood streets, with a newspaper stand, clothing store, and a labor temple. ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from hill across field towards farmhouses, dwellings and churches along a road. In the foreground are stumps. Caption reads: "Big Falls, Wis." |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of downtown, with a bridge and buildings in the background and storefronts in the foreground. |
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