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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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Mitchell at Milwaukee

Date: 1922
Description: General William Mitchell, with his personal airplane and Milwaukee airport manager Giles Meisenheimer at Butler Field, the first Milwaukee County airport. ...
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Sopwith Camels

Date: 1918
Description: Two Sopwith Camels, somewhere in France. This image is from the photo collection of Alvin Reis of Madison. He made many wartime photos into lantern slides ...
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Alvin Reis

Date: 1918
Description: A portrait of Alvin C. Reis of Madison during his service in World War I. During the war, Reis commanded several observation balloon squadrons. Later, he b...
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Breguet 14

Date: 1918
Description: A view from below of a Breguet 14, a French observation plane that could also be used as a light bomber. When functioning as a bomber, the pilot was the bo...
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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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Methodist Hospital Sun Roof

Date: 1930
Description: Sunroof of the Methodist Hospital, showing patients, nurses, and a view of Lake Monona in the background.
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Hospital Room

Date: 1930
Description: Posed view of a patient room in the recently constructed Methodist Hospital, showing a nurse on the telephone near a bed, and a doctor and elderly patient ...
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Madison Skyline

Date: 1930
Description: Madison skyline, looking from the roof of the recently-constructed Methodist Hospital toward the Wisconsin State Capitol, obscured by The Loraine Hotel, wh...
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Hospital Hallway

Date: 1930
Description: View of a hallway in the recently-constructed Methodist Hospital. There is a man sitting at the end of the hall under the window.
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Nurses' Station

Date: 1930
Description: Posed view of a nurses' station in the recently-constructed Methodist Hospital
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Nurse with Native American Girl

Date: 10 1936
Description: A nurse poses outdoors holding a Native American girl at the Lac du Flambeau Indian reservation.
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Two Children on Sled

Date: 1940
Description: Winter scene with two children on sled in the snow, possibly on Regent Street, Madison, Wisconsin. In the background is a house and yard.
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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.
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...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Feast of the Little Lanterns Play

Date: 05 1927
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 ...
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Neighborhood House: Boys in Meal Line at Camp

Date: 1929
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...
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Neighborhood House: Boys at The Roost

Date: 1929
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...
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Neighborhood House Boys Club with Log Cabin

Date: 1926
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.

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