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| Description: | Crowd gathered outside International Harvester's Tractor Works for the raising of an American flag. The factory was located at 2600 West 31st Blvd., and wa... |
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| Description: | Two workers perched on a steam locomotive pulling railroad cars loaded with logs. The coal car bears the name "Deering Southwestern Railway." The railway w... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the monthly Stock Fair. The roof of a building is in the left foreground. Horse-drawn wagons line the street, and there is a large buildin... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Former President Theodore Roosevelt with pilot Art Smith and his Curtiss Pusher at the Panama Pacific International Exposition. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jack Vilas (seated) in the Curtiss hydroplane he used to spot forest fires for the Wisconsin Conservation Department. (His companion is not identified.) Th... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Certificate issued to E.M. Griffith, the Wisconsin State Forester, so that Griffith could prove that he had flown at an altitude of 1600 feet in the "flyin... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Donald Crisp, aviator Glenn Martin, and Mary Pickford in the 1915 silent comedy A Girl of Yesterday (Famous Players-Lasky, 1915). Martin is wearing ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Belle Case La Follette, the wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., wearing a black dress and hat and speaking outdoors at an unidentified location. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | St. Mary's Hospital soon after its completion in 1911. Caption reads: "St. Mary's Hospital." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Central High School, designed by St. Paul architect Cass Gilbert and partially razed in 1986. Caption reads: "High School, Madison, Wis." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the neoclassical Gay Building, named after Madison developer Leonard W. Gay, at 16 N Carroll Street, one of the first high-rise buildings ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Road workers grading a rural country road with an Avery tractor and wooden grading blocks. The image was cropped from a postcard collected by International... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Lincoln Beachey, shortly before his fatal crash at Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. During his brief career Beachey was the best known, ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Superior, Wisconsin, and Duluth, Minnesota on opposite shore of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Man driving an automobile down a muddy dirt road. Caption on back reads: "Grading road with surfacing." The photograph was taken for International Harveste... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an African American prisoner hauling goods with a horse-drawn wagon. Original caption reads: "Baled alfalfa, bacon, flour and grain which... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | South view of Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) with dome on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A flag is flying from the dome. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Bascom Hall exterior, formerly Main Hall, from the north path, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Man sitting behind the wheel of an International Model F truck parked on a city street in front of the Blackstone Theatre. The truck was owned by a Firesto... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Four men inspecting the washout of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie tracks caused by a flood at Medina Junction. The view is looking west from th... |
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