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Ho-Chunk Powwow Participants

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Description: This photograph of Ho-Chunk powwow participants is a copy made by Van Schaick. From left to right are: John Hazen Hill (HaNaKah), William Hall (HunkKah), W...
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Camp Randall Memorial Arch

Date: 1912
Description: Camp Randall Memorial Arch and Civil War cannons honor the Wisconsin Civil War soldiers on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The memorial was nam...
Drawing

Indian Taking Aim

Date: 1840
Description: Photograph of a drawing of an Indian aiming his bow and arrow, with one foot standing on an earlier kill.
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Boynton Chapel

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Description: Privately built chapel, decorated in Norwegian style by Mr. and Mrs. Boynton.
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Galloway House Museum

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Description: Galloway House Museum and flower-laden lawn on a sunny, summer day. Large oak trees stand to the left and right of the museum. Two benches, a bird bath, ...
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Dam on Soft Maple Creek

Date: 04 1959
Description: The Mississippi River Logging Company's dam built in Soft Maple Creek in 1877.
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Soft Maple Creek Dam

Date: 04 1959
Description: The Mississippi River Logging Company's dam built in Soft Maple Creek in 1877.
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Rural Wisconsin Landscape

Date: 11 05 1986
Description: Green Lake County Highway M meandering toward a red barn in the distance on a November day, an archtypal Wisconsin landscape.
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James Staudacher

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Description: James Staudacher, the first person to hike the Ice Age Trail in its entirety.
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Gordon Boardman

Date: 1970
Description: Candid portrait of Gordon Boardman, who is wearing a white shirt and a kerchief around his neck. There is a double exposure ghost image of him at the botto...
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Bob Allen in Triak Color

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Description: Journalist Robert S. Allen seated in the garden behind his Washington, D.C. home as photographed in the rare Triak color photography process.
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Thuy Nguyen in the Sun

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Description: Thuy Nguyen lays on the grass in a park on a sunny day.
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Kim Nguyen at Home

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Description: Kim Nguyen is sitting at home. There is a map of Vietnam on the wall behind him.
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Fredric March

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Description: Fredric March (seated) with Florence Eldridge (Mrs. March) and the noted news analyst Cecil Brown.
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Reception Headquarters of Post No. 2 of the Grand Army of the Republic

Date: 1886
Description: Reception headquarters of the George H. Thomas Post No. 2 of the Grand Army of the Republic at the 20th National Encampment, Alcazar Theatre.
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Test Site Arrest

Date: 04 1997
Description: Arrest of Nukewatch demonstrators at a Nevada test site.
Postcard

High and Grade School

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Description: Tinted photographic postcard of Cable's High and Grade School building. A flag flies on the right, and a group of children are looking out of a second stor...
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Webb TB Album: M.T.S. Nurses' Home

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Description: A page from a scrapbook created by Andrew Webb Jr. when he was a patient at the Chicago Tuberculosis Sanitarium from 1931-1934, with images of friends or o...
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South Vietnam I Corp

Date: 03 21 1971
Description: Standing left to right: Patrick Bailey, Lt. Donald Speet, Steve Commo (Doc), Capt. Carl Jensen, Donald Thies; in front: Buford Byers on a hilltop overlooki...
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Obama and Obey

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Description: Congressman David R. Obey and President Barack Obama in the Oval Office in the White House. The photograph is autographed for Obey: "Congratulations for 40...

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