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| Date: | 1928 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | General William Mitchell, with his personal airplane and Milwaukee airport manager Giles Meisenheimer at Butler Field, the first Milwaukee County airport. ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 06 1925 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 1927 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with cast members of "Feast of the Little Lanterns," a production staged by the Fireside Girls club. The ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Group of boys standing in line, holding empty plates to be filled by a cook, wearing a chef's hat, who is standing behind a half-door with a pan in one han... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Group of boys getting ready for bed in a corner of The Roost in Piper's Woods (a 10 acre woods located a mile and a half past Forest Hill cemetery on the S... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Seven boys standing outdoors around a table with a model of a log cabin and its surroundings on it. A building with narrow siding is in the background. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Groups of men, most dressed in suits and ties, sitting at small tables, looking at books. A few female teachers, including one in the foreground, are also ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Cast members of a play staged for Valentine's Day, with costumed figures holding shields, a jester in a half-white and half-black costume, a woman with a c... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A Native American trapper sits on his haunches in front of a building where various hides on stretchers have been hung to dry. The building is sided with s... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of male and female Ojibwe (Chippewa) dancers forming a circle. They are surrounded by a crowd of white onlookers. The dancers are ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | An unidentified Native American man posing while sitting on a corn planter pulled by a team of horses. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk family working in a field at harvest time. Two men are leaning on potato forks, while a woman and children are standing in the background. There... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | An Ojibwe man is standing and holding the reins of his team of two horses hitched to a harrow. Two boys are standing behind him. In the background are leaf... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Charles Decorah, a Ho-Chunk Indian, broadcasting seeds oats over a tilled field. He is wearing bib overalls and a cap. There is a dog in the foreground on... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A Caucasian man in a suit is standing at the center of a large arbor. Native American men and women are sitting or standing around him, while a Native Amer... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a group of men gathered around four teams of horses hitched to sleighs in a snow covered lot. There is a dog at the center of the... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man in a light-colored overcoat, possibly Joseph Wojta, standing behind a sheep being inspected by two other men. A group, including men, women and child... |
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