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University of Wisconsin Historical Decorative Map

Date: 1949
Description: Color bird's-eye map of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as it was midcentury, with two co-eds, several photographs of campus landmarks around edges, an...
Photograph

Cotton House

Date: 1949
Description: View of three women standing in the foreground looking at the front of the Captain John Cotton house. Also known as "Beaupre", this Greek Revival style hou...
Photograph

Holocaust Survivor Lucy Rothstein Baras and Family

Date: 1949
Description: Lucy Rothstein Baras and family at outdoor cafe in Furth, Germany after World War II. From left: Lucy Rothstein Baras, Victor (son), Edward Baras (husband...
Photograph

Bascom Hall

Date: 1949
Description: Exterior of entrance to Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison camppus. Students are sitting around the Lincoln Monument o...
Photograph

Interior of Worker Home on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: Chairs, photographs, a radio and other items in a workers' housing unit on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "In...
Photograph

Sisal Plantation Manager and Wife

Date: 1949
Description: Mr. Heath, manager on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba, walks with his wife in the yard of his official company residence. The couple's ...
Photograph

4-H Gypsy Festival Queen Leaving Airplane

Date: 1949
Description: Original caption states: "Alpha Bungum, 17, of Kasson, Minn., receives congratulations from A.S. Knudsen, northwest regional manager, general line sales, ...

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