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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Summertime view of people at tables on University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union terrace, looking out to canoes and sailboats on the lake. In the back... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Twin sisters Julie & Juliet Gerke, students at the Kehl School of Dance, posed in matching, Kehl-designed clothing--including hats, jackets, short skirts, ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A group of three Native American boys standing in front of a door. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of clock made by John Muir while a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1860. Children are looking at the John Muir clock in the museum at ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Children standing on barrels in front of Droster Grocery and Filling Station at 1438 Sherman Avenue, run by Red Whitney. The children are Whitney's nieces ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Several men, some in Native American dress, stand on the roof of Parson's Indian Trading Post. The building is designed to look like a pueblo. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man operating an International I-12 tractor with a snowplow to plow a sidewalk. A group of children are walking behind the snowplow. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Magda Moses Herzberger (third row, fourth from the left) with her piano class in Cluj, Romania. |
| 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: | Young Richard and Ralph Quinney pose for a picture holding hands in front of the farmhouse on the first day of the school year. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Children play in a large swimming pool with a stone changing house. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a little girl dressed in panties and a red polka dot hair bow, sitting on a giant ice cube, sitting in the snow. She is holding a holiday... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of a 10-year-old boy, Wilmer Nissley, driving a Farmall B tractor with a disk harrow attachment. He is driving his fathe... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, photographed by American journalist Alvin Steinkopf, about one year after the German invasion. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for International School buses. Includes a photograph of an International School bus picking up children in a residential ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Orioles, members of a club for ten-year-old girls at Neighborhood House. A former worker at the settlement house then working in a ho... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with members of the Orioles, a girls' club at the settlement house. There are six images of members displ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Boy dressed in coat and hat and sipping milk from a bottle poses with "Goliath," the world's biggest cheese, which is resting on a wheeled platform. Round ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of large crowd of boys and girls fishing along the shoreline with bamboo poles at a lake. Very likely a sponsored "fishing contest." There are a few p... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Candid shot of Dr. R.S. MacKechnie, a local physician, and his daughter, (back to camera?) in a crowd outoors, taken at MacKechnie's retirement party. |
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