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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Portrait of young Oscar Rennebohm in his World War I Navy uniform. Rennebohm interrupted his already successful career as the owner of the Badger Pharmacy ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The huge waiter (played by Eric Campbell) glowers at the immigrant (Charlie Chaplin). To the right are Edna Purviance playing another immigrant and Henry B... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The intersection of Green Bay and Cedarburg roads taken for Wisconsin Highway Department. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Brick house at 640 North Frances Street, erected in 1906 for the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View from Capitol dome east to Third Lake Ridge District. Power plant is visible at center. Lake Monona is on the right. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View looking uphill towards the house at 150 Iota Court, built in 1911-1912 from local sandstone for the Chi Psi fraternity. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View looking down towards the house at 150 Iota Court, built in 1911-1912 from local sandstone for the Chi Psi fraternity. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | These two signs located along the route of Wisconsin State Trunk Highway 15 and 16 indicate the presence of a culvert. Beginning in 1917 Wisconsin pioneer... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Six year-old Zula Belle Walker of McDonald Chapel, Jefferson County, feeding her mongrel flock of poultry. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View down unpaved road lines with trees towards a car that is approaching from a distance at Houston and Oklona Pike. There is a Coca-Cola advertisement on... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A woman searching through a burlap sack. Two men are standing beside her on a platform near an urban street market. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View from back of room of children sitting in a classroom for a Union Pacific preparedness special campaign. The instructor is pointing to a sign reading: ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A group of men and boys attending an Agricultural Extension lecture in an opera house. The onstage lecturer is pointing to a sign reading: "Agricultural Le... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Howie standing beside a horse-drawn streetcar of the Covington Line. The car is manned by a conductor. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A girl and a boy doing field work beside a wagon. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two men stand on either side of a path in a cornfield in South Russia. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two farmers are using a Titan 10-20 tractor and a Deering corn picker in the field. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A farmer is using a large team of mules and horses to pull a harvester-thresher (combine) through a field. |
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