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Speed Holmen

Date: 1928
Description: Charles "Speed" Holman and Ed Ballough, the Laird Team, after the New York to Los Angeles air race. Minnesotan Charles Holman earned his nickname by racing...
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Hamilton Metalplane

Date: 1928
Description: Up on floats, an all-metal airplane built by the Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee in 1928. Thomas Hamilton already had a national reputati...
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Milwaukee County Airport

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Description: An aerial view of the Milwaukee County Airport. The office, also seen in Image ID: 11454 is visible in the lower left corner.
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Milwaukee County Airport

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Description: The office of the Milwaukee County Airport.
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Baby Clinic

Date: 1921
Description: A mother and infant in a baby carriage pose at the end of a row of wicker baby carriages in front of what is probably the Neighborhood House.
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Cranberry Drying and Storage

Date: 1934
Description: Hand-colored image of two men loading cranberries in crates into an open air drying shed shortly after harvest.
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Wisconsin Chair Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Wisconsin Chair Company of Port Washington, Wisconsin, with its McLean patented swing rocking chair set against a circular background with ...
Manuscript

Griggs Album: Kindergarten Goes to Vilas Park

Date: 06 1925
Description: Children posing in the back of an open truck wagon in front of the Neighborhood House Infant Welfare Clinic. The wagon is marked "Frautschi". This is the f...
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Skiers Parade at Stoughton

Date: 1911
Description: Men carrying skis march behind a drummer down Main Street.
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Polisher at Work

Date: 1910
Description: A workman poses beside a belt-driven polisher inside a shed at the Montello granite quarry. Two other men relax in the background near an open door where n...
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Paving Blocks

Date: 1910
Description: View of the Montello granite quarry grounds shows piles of granite paving blocks. In the background, a team of horses pulls a wagon under an elevated narro...
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Three People on Raft

Date: 1910
Description: Three people on a raft, all wearing blue shirts. Two of the people are standing and holding shields and spears, while the third person is sitting in the mi...
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Street Scene with Carriages

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of an elevated view of a street scene which includes an assortment of carriages. In her journal of Ceylon, Carrie Chapman Catt r...
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Men Returning after Hunt

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from Sudan, Carrie describes a tiger hunt which occurred while she was visiting a village. The tiger had been preying on livestock for a cou...
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Small Boat in China

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from China, Carrie describes a scene from the harbor: "There are a multitude of boats. The sails are colored like birch. The water under a c...
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View of Bridge

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of a bridge over a rocky river. In the lower left foreground people are near small, thatched roof buildings, with what appear to be wooden mi...
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Adderley Street in Cape Town

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of the post office on Adderley Street in Cape Town, South Africa. There are automobiles, horse-drawn carts, wagons, and streetcars on the wid...
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Newly Constructed Trestle Bridge outside Cape Town

Date: 1910
Description: View of the newly constructed trestle bridge outside of Cape Town, South Africa.
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Zambezi River and Railroad Bridge

Date: 1910
Description: View of Zambezi River, South Africa, from a boat tour. The railroad bridge is in the far background.
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Hippopotamus

Date: 1910
Description: View of a hippopotamus taken from a boat tour on the Zambezi River during Carrie's trip to South Africa.

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