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Battle of Bad Axe

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Description: Painting by Cal Peters depicting the battle of Bad Axe, also known as the Bad Axe massacre, at the Mississippi River on August 2, 1832.
Photograph

McCormick Farmall H Tractor and International Truck at Work on Farm

Date: 1950
Description: Father and son at work cutting wood with McCormick Farmall H tractor running belt-driven circular saw on rural farm. Behind them is parked an International...
Print

Nabu-naa-kee-shick, Or One Side Of The Sky

Date: 1835
Description: Nabu-naa-kee-shick, or the One Side of the Sky, a Chief of the Chippewa (Ojibwa) Tribe. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at ...
Photograph

Madison Central High School "Old Grads"

Date: 06 07 1945
Description: Portrait of five "Old Grads" of Madison Central High School, guests of the 1945 graduating class, the 100th group to receive diplomas from that school. Sit...
Photograph

William O. Douglas

Date: 1958
Description: Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas during a canoe trip with conservationist Sigurd F. Olson. He is sitting with his hat in hand beside a canoe pulled...
Photograph

Madison Women Host Television Shows

Date: 05 15 1958
Description: Madison television programs are hosted by Madison women and cover topics like cooking, arts, fashion and crafts. A husband and wife team, Bea and Carson Gu...
Photograph

International C-1200 School Bus

Date: 1968
Description: Young children are walking down a sidewalk to board an International C-1200 school bus parked outside Springfield North School. A man is sitting in the dri...
Photograph

Kids Boarding Bus

Date: 1968
Description: View towards a group of students boarding an International C-1100 school bus outside Springfield North School. A manis sitting in the driver's seat.
Photograph

Golfers

Date: 06 1953
Description: Group portrait of three men standing on a golf course. Among those pictured of a total of twelve negatives are: Walter Atwood, Steve Caravello, Jack Allen,...
Photograph

Ten Year Class of 1945 Edgewood High School Reunion

Date: 05 25 1955
Description: The recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award at the ten year Class of 1945 Edgewood High School Reunion was Dr. Kathleen Motelet of Stockton, Califor...
Photograph

Rotary Scholarship Luncheon

Date: 09 16 1953
Description: John J. Goldgruber, Wisconsin High School principal (left), sitting next to Wisconsin High School scholarship student, Mary Lenz. Central High School schol...
Photograph

"Old Vanderbilt" Locomotive

Date: 1890
Description: Upham Lumber Company locomotive, "Old Vanderbilt," built by the Taunton Locomotive Works in 1847 from the New York providence and Boston Railroad where she...

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