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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Aerial of University of Wisconsin-Madison campus with Camp Randall in the lower right corner and Lake Mendota, looking northeast to Maple Bluff. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Lake Seven, surrounded by trees. Agricultural fields fill the foreground. Another lake is in the upper right. Caption reads: "Lake Seven Ade... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | The Black Hawk Golf Course green, sans golfers. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | The Passenger Pigeon Monument was designed and built around 1947. It was erected by the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Lake Mendota, looking across University Bay from Willow Drive. The Wisconsin State Capitol is visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of downtown area, including a river. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | City Hall near the Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | The Statue of Liberty and New York Harbor as photographed by Holocaust survivor, Louis Koplin. Taken from the ship carrying him from Europe to the United S... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison, from Park Street to the men's dormitories. Part of Lake Mendota is in the top right corner. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Elizabeth Waters women's dormitory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. In the upper right corner is Camp Randall. A long pier... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | The six sixteen-inch guns of the U.S.S. Wisconsin shooting at a target fifteen miles away. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An International K-model truck with logs piled on its trailer parked next to a dirt ramp or embankment leading to a river(?). Industrial buildings are to t... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting New York Central Lines railway and the area of New England, deemed "America's Historic Summerland" in the poster. Featurin... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting the Northern Pacific Railway's Yellowstone Park line. Featuring the work of artist Edward Brener, the poster depicts the O... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting "The Palisades of the Hudson," via the New York Central lines train system. The poster depicts a dramatic cliff overlookin... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Mt. St. Helens, and to get there by way of the Northern Pacific Railway. Featuring the artwork of Gustav Krollmann, it dep... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Alaska, and to get there by way of the the Northern Pacific Railway. Features the artwork of Sydney Laurence, with a depic... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company, and promoting Haddon Hall and the Wye Valley as "The Peak Distr... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A factory worker wearing eyeglasses is holding a metal part while standing at a large machine in International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of a girl throwing a penny into the Brownie's Wishing Well in the Cave of the Mounds. Caption reads: "Brownie's Wishing Well." |
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