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"Flying Fleet" Publicity Still

Date: 1929
Description: Publicity shot for "Flying Fleet," an MGM motion picture release starring Ramon Navarro and Anita Paige. The Navy aircraft on which the actors are posed is...
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First McCormick Reaper Re-Enactment

Date: 1929
Description: Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi...
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Rhinelander High School

Date: 1888
Description: Exterior view of the first high school.
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Joseph R. McCarthy Memorial

Date: 05 02 1959
Description: Dedication of the Joseph R. McCarthy Memorial in the Outagamie Counthouse on the second anniversary of the senator's death. Directly in front of the bust ...
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Reed's Cafe

Date: 1937
Description: A woman is standing by a cooler with a beer bottle in her hand at Reed's Cafe near a stove and countertop. Original caption states: "McCormick-Deering 6 ca...
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Chippewa Falls Library

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Description: Interior view of the Chippewa Falls Library. In the center is a six drawer cabinet holding a potted plant, surrounded by small reading tables (children's t...
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Elisha D. Smith Library

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Description: Interior view of the Elisha D. Smith Library. The library opened in 1898 funded with a gift of $20,000 from E.D. Smith. Throughout the room in the foregrou...
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Alistaire Cooke and Colleagues

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Description: Alistair Cooke of the BBC broadcasting from the United States to the United Kingdom. On the far left is the American news commentator Cecil Brown, who broa...
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Switch Engine No. 1079

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Description: Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway engine no. 1079, class J2. The engineer was Philip Currie and the fireman was Edward C. McNeill. The third man in th...
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James Kirkwood and Mary Miles Minter

Date: 1917
Description: Original caption: "Mary Miles Minter and her director James Kirkwood in the street of the little old New England Village constructed behind the American F...
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Frank Morgan and Madge Kennedy Publicity Still for "Baby Mine"

Date: 1917
Description: The actors Frank Morgan and Madge Kennedy embrace in this publicity still for "Baby Mine" (Goldwyn 1917). In the silent film they play Alfred and Zoie, a m...

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