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Downriver from Grand Avenue Bridge

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Description: Schooners docked on river. The view is downriver from the Grand Avenue Bridge.
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Pioneer Home of Nels Wickstrom

Date: 1891
Description: This is a family photograph of Nels Wickstrom with his wife Anna (born Anna Stoel) and their children in front of their log home. The oldest child, wearing...
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Gridley Dairy Milk Wagon

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Description: A man holding a bottle of milk is standing and posing next to a horse-drawn Gridley Dairy milk wagon. Two other men are standing on the left near a brick b...
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The "Spirit of St. Louis"

Date: 1928
Description: Charles Lindbergh's airplane, "Spirit of St. Louis," while visiting Madison.
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Lindbergh Returns

Date: 1928
Description: Madison admirers gather around Charles Lindbergh upon his arrival in the city. This photograph is believed to have been taken in 1928 when Lindbergh return...
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Departing Ellis Island

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Description: Elevated view from railing of immigrants boarding a ferry to depart Ellis Island.
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Chief Oshkosh

Date: 1850
Description: Drawing of Chief Oshkosh rendered from a daguerreotype by J.F. Harrison. He is wearing a top hat wrapped with a ribbon. Also a suitcoat, bowtie, beaded nec...
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Customers in front of Cooperative Marketing Store

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Description: Customers standing in front of the Cooperative Marketing Store.
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Ballplayer at Bat

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Description: A Black River Falls baseball player is up to bat.
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House of David Baseball Team Advertisement

Date: 08 25 1936
Description: The "House of David" traveling baseball team advertisement for an upcoming game.
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Man on Farmall 560 Tractor

Date: 1958
Description: Farmer on a Farmall 560 tractor with disk harrow pausing to talk to another man in a field in front of a farmhouse.
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Surface Digging

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Description: Lead mining by digging at the ground surface.
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Miners using a Pioneer Windlass

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Description: Early Wisconsin lead miners using a Pioneer Windlass.
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Zinc Miners

Date: 1910
Description: Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine.
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Farmer Filling Manure Spreader

Date: 02 09 1911
Description: Farmer shoveling manure into the box of a horse-drawn International New Low manure spreader in a farm yard.
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Kaminski and his Curtiss Pusher

Date: 08 1912
Description: John Kaminski (the first licensed pilot in Wisconsin, third from the right in checkered cap) with his new Curtiss pusher, the "Sweetheart."
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Pilot Hugh Robinson and his Hydroplane

Date: 10 19 1911
Description: Pilot Hugh Robinson and his Curtiss hydroplane at Prairie du Chien during a flight that was intended to be the first all the way down the Mississippi River...
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Schwister's Minnesota-Badger

Date: 1912
Description: John Schwister at the controls of the "Minnesota-Badger," the plane he built in St. Paul, Minnesota and Wausau, Wisconsin. The passenger beside Schwister i...
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Jesse Brabazon in Wright Model B

Date: 1912
Description: Jesse C. Brabazon of Delavan, Wisconsin in a 1911 Wright Model B, the first Wright plane designed to carry a passenger and a pilot. Previously, the passeng...
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Lawson Airplane Company Factory

Date: 1920
Description: Alfred W. Lawson (second from right) and his employees in front of his South Milwaukee factory with the center section of his new airplane, the Lawson Midn...

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