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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A foldout, illustrated poster for a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) youth program featuring images of teenaged boys working. The text reads: "The CCC — A... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Gaylord Nelson, dressed in cap and gown, poses with his mother Mary Nelson at his graduation from San Jose State College in 1939. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Back and front covers of the program for the 1939 National Air Races, with a special label acknowledging the role of Harry Bruno as publicist for the Bendi... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a B-15 flying over the granite memorial to the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The 60-foot memorial was dedicat... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine #10, the "Hiawatha," built by the company shop in Milwaukee. There are houses in the far background along a ri... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Memorial Chapel, dedicated on May 28, 1939. A large group of people are standing on the lawn in front of the chapel. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View of Memorial Chapel, dedicated on May 8, 1939. A group of people are gathered on the lawn in front of the chapel. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A WPA program on the State Fair Grounds. The workers have dug a long trench, and the project probably concerns improved sanitary facilities for the fair, a... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Somewhat out-of-focus exterior view of City Hall from the Capitol grounds. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Hazy eastern view of the Capitol Heating Plant on East Main Street. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | The Timothy Burns tablet in Burns Park, near Main Street. The tablet reads: "To perpetuate the record of the gift of Burns Park to La Crosse by Hon. Timoth... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | John and Stanta Bordner's Crestwood home shortly after construction. The home stands at 5746 Bittersweet Place. Three people stand on a porch above the gar... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Douglas County Museum, also known as the A.A. Roth Memorial. The museum was housed here from 1939 to 1963. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Douglas County Historical Society Museum, also known as the A.A. Roth Memorial. The museum was located here from 1939 until 1963. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Burl Briggs (far left), and unknown companions pose near a linear burial mound on Picnic Point on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Burl Briggs (right), and an unknown companion pose behind a linear burial mound on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man poses behind a large conical Native American burial mound near the center of Picnic Point on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man poses behind a conical Native American burial mound near the west end of Picnic Point on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Gaylord Nelson, later Wisconsin governor, United State senator, and a leading environmentalist of his era, on horseback at a ranch in Rosebud, Montana. |
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