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Women Sewing for Civil Works Administration Project

Date: 1934
Description: A group of Fond du Lac women sews clothes for a Civil Works Administration project in 1934. The CWA was an emergency program that lasted from November 1933...
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Model Builders

Date: 1934
Description: The members of Hangar 13, a group of Beloit youth organized to build and race model airplanes. Conrad Hansen, their organizer, is standing at left in the b...
Postcard

Alexander Gymnasium

Date: 1934
Description: View down drive toward the gymnasium. Caption reads: "Alexander Gymnasium, Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis."
Photograph

Progressive Party Returns

Date: 1934
Description: In 1934 the La Follette brothers, the sons of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., broke with the Republican Party and founded the Progressive Party of Wisc...
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Aerial View of Isthmus

Date: 1934
Description: Aerial view of Capitol and Lake Mendota and Lake Monona.
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Fort Howard Hospital

Date: 1934
Description: Fort Howard Hospital.
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Dickey Chapelle as a Young Girl

Date: 1934
Description: Georgette Louise (Dickey) Meyer, the tall, bespectacled girl in the middle, salutes with five other children.
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All Souls Church

Date: 1934
Description: Formerly on the corner of Court and South Bluff Streets, the All Souls Church was later converted into a "flat building".
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Christ Church

Date: 1934
Description: Christ Church, an Episcopal church on Court Street, torn down about 1935 to build a new church.
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YMCA Building

Date: 1934
Description: The second YMCA building in Kenosha. It was used as a commercial structure at the time of the photograph.
Poster

Century of Progress World's Fair Poster

Date: 1934
Description: Poster for the 1934 "Century of Progress" World's Fair in Chicago showing a woman surrounded by abstract representations of the sights and sounds of the fa...
Photograph

Franklin Car Across the Street from Governor's Residence

Date: 1934
Description: View from 121 East Gilman Street, of Annie S. Brown's Franklin car. In the background is the Governor's residence.
Photograph

Cranberry Drying and Storage

Date: 1934
Description: Two workmen stack crates of cranberries in an open air drying shed. The original caption which was supplied by the Agriculture Department noted that Wiscon...
Photograph

Indian Agency House

Date: 1934
Description: View across field towards the Indian Agency House, built in 1832.
Photograph

Park Street

Date: 1934
Description: Park Street looking north toward the University of Wisconsin campus.
Photograph

Portrait of the Goldberg Family

Date: 1934
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Goldberg family (from left): Sara (mother), Rosa Goldberg Katz, Uncle Hirsch, Moishe (brother), Abraha...
Photograph

Myles Horton with Typewriter

Date: 1934
Description: Myles Horton sitting, shirtless, typing on a typewriter on his lap while sitting outdoors.
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Regent and Orchard Streets

Date: 1934
Description: Regent and Orchard Streets looking east.
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Assembly Committee in Session

Date: 1934
Description: Assembly members seated around a table at a committee meeting.
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Dane County Board of Supervisors

Date: 1934
Description: Dane County Board of Supervisors in session.

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