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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An original colored poster celebrating the Milwaukee Road's 90 years of progress. The poster features three photographs of locomotive engines, ranging in t... |
| 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: | Charles Enge, seventh from left, and supporters pose in front of the Al. Ringling Theatre. A sign on top of a car advertises his campaign for the Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of the home of William T. Marriott, 721 Ash Street. It is a two-story brick house with Prairie Style influence, with a large chimney in th... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of the home of George Snyder at 1219 Ash Street. It is a large wooden Queen Anne-style house with a columned front porch and a corner towe... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of a dog sitting on the front porch of a large Victorian house at 127 Eleventh Street, the home of Dr. Clausen F. Stekl, a Baraboo dentist... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An imposing Tudor style stone and stucco house sits on a large wooded lot. There is a decorative fence and hedge along the driveway. The house was the home... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of a dog standing on front walk in front of the Dr. Chris L. Thuerer home, a large Four Square Style house which has large bay windows and... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A foursquare style house with front and back porches sits on a large landscaped lot with a decorative fence and painted pergola. The house, at 220 Eighth S... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of a two-story, wood frame house with a front porch sittomg on a wooded lot. The house has a large chimney, dentil molding under the eaves... |
| 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: | View from rear of the interior of an International D-15 truck. A uniformed man is standing inside among a pile of packages. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A uniformed delivery man is standing next to an International D-15 truck parked near the curb in a residential neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Hawkins Service Station, located at 309 Seventh Avenue. The station has a pagoda style roof typical of stations designed between 1917 and 1930 by Alexande... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A crowd has gathered at a well preserved large stone barn with a cupola. Two men with cameras watch the scene from a hatch in the roof; there is a van wit... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A seated self-portrait of the photographer. He wears eyeglasses, and a suit with vest and floppy cravat. |
| 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: | Promotional trick photograph of the husband and wife vaudeville team Block and Sully (Jesse Block and Eva Sully). She holds his severed head by the hair, a... |
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