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McCormick Advertisement — "Take It Cool"

Date: 1897
Description: An advertisement designed with images of three hand fans decorated with scenes of farmers using McCormick farming machinery. A ribbon across the bottom car...
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Economic Promotion

Date: 05 1973
Description: As part of a national economic development program for northern Wisconsin, former baseball star Ted Williams, then a representative of a fishing tackle com...
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Theta Chi Truck

Date: 1975
Description: View of two members of Theta Chi fraternity with an International garbage truck. The fraternity spent a total of 3,000 hours refurbishing and converting th...
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Celebration

Date: 11 04 1970
Description: Democrat Patrick J. Lucey (center) celebrating his election as governor of Wisconsin with Martin Schreiber (left), his running mate, and Senator William Pr...
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Digging a Ditch and Laying Drain Tile

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Description: View of a crew surveying land, digging a ditch, and laying drain tile.
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Brule River-St. Croix River Canoe Passengers

Date: 1895
Description: Group of men, with women passengers, poling canoes through a marshy stretch of water on the Brule River-St. Croix River portage between Lake Superior and t...
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Milking Machine

Date: 1912
Description: Unidentified man (inventor?) seated at and showing a foot-powered (?) milking machine. He is outdoors near a stone building.
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Group of Posed Men

Date: 1918
Description: Posed group portrait of seven men standing on the steps of what appears to be a public building.
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Apiary of J.E. Cady

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Description: View across field of the house and apiary of J.E. Cady. There is a man in a horse and carriage in front of the house. The carriage has a sign on the side t...
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Burial of German Massacre Victims

Date: 1939
Description: A group of people stand in a graveyard in Lemberg, Poland as German victims of a massacre are buried.
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German Press Club

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Description: Group portrait of members of the German (Deutsche) Press Club. Standing, from left to right are: Herman Pabst, Henry J. Stark, George Parker, (unidentified...
Historical Object

Barry Goldwater Oven Mitt

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Description: Oven mitt. One side is of a gold material, and the other side is printed with the words: "Go Hand in Hand with Goldwater."
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Repaving & Widening Preparations for Washington Street

Date: 1948
Description: View down sidewalk along Washington Street facing east. Excavation is going on between S. 8th and S. 9th Streets. A crew is mixing concrete and doing work ...
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Washington Street Repaving & Widening

Date: 1948
Description: Crews of the Vinton Construction Co. are laying a 20 foot wide concrete slab in front of the northeast corner of Washington and S. 9th Streets. A truck is ...
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Cemetery Trim

Date: 06 14 1984
Description: A man is using a lawn mower between rows of gravestones. He has turned from it and is looking at the ground. Caption reads: "CEMETERY TRIM - Roger Reif, of...
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Bob and Faye Becker

Date: 08 12 1984
Description: Portrait of a man and woman posing together on the lawn in front of a tennis court and a house. The man is sitting in a reclining lawn chair, and the woman...
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American Trade Union Leaders

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Description: William Belanger (standing) addressing unionists at workers' education school in St. Malo, France. Harold Gibbons and Carmen Lucia are also pictured.

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