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| Description: | Two rustic stairways leading down to the Bad River at Copper Falls State Park. At the bottom of the stairs is a sign telling the geological story of Copper... |
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| Description: | The Armour Company's Chicago factory, showing the employment office doors. The caption indicates that the police were present because the Packinghouse Work... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of Anemone Cave and crashing waves, surrounded by coastal rock formations. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Dedicated on August 31, 1940, the Victor Salvatore bronze sculpture of American author James Fenimore Cooper sits in Cooper Park. The statue depicts the a... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with two children on sled in the snow, possibly on Regent Street, Madison, Wisconsin. In the background is a house and yard. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Sigurd Olson, age 41, probably taken for publicity purposes. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view of a Northland Camp building from across Lake Iliff. The camp was operated as an auxiliary of the German-American Bund, the American Nazi Organizati... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view of a cabin and the tent grounds of Nordland Camp for boys, operated as an auxiliary of the German-American Bund, the American Nazi Organization. A f... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the raising of the flag on tent grounds at Nordland Camp for boys, operated as an auxiliary of the German-American Bund, the American Nazi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Leopard in a cage at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the Chautauqua Grounds, founded in 1874. A log cottage stands on the left, and another wooden cottage can be seen on the right. Caption reads: "Cot... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view of a row of brick and stone buildings leading towards Crosby Hall. Trees line the sidewalk. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view of the street that runs through the Dartmouth College campus. Trees and buildings line the way, with a stone "Slow Keep Right" obelisk in the middl... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Neva Schultz of the Dane County Hospital and Home poses next to an automobile. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Ronald Reagan as the character Gipp in the Warner Brothers' film "Knute Rockne: All-American." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Madison magician Ben Bergor, standing in the trunk, and his wife, Alvina, standing nearby, getting ready to perform an amazing escape act. The act had Berg... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the front door of the Charles A. Grignon House before restoration. The house was built between 1837 and 1839 of materials brought by water... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from the second floor balcony of the Charles A Grignon House at Kaukauna showing the historic boat canal and the Fox River beyond it. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of foundation of the house built by Dominique DuCharme in 1790 and enlarged by Augustin Grignon after 1804. The Grignon family resided in the... |
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