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| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Warren Spahn, famous left-handed pitcher of the Milwaukee Braves baseball team, completes a pitch to the batter. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the Fast Hitch features a cartoon of men performing the "nationally famous Fast-Hitch square dance" on Farmall tractors. A photograp... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Harness racers are shown in action at the Wisconsin State Fair Park, with an audience watching from the grandstand. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of an International R-110 Station Wagon parked on a lawn. In the background is a group of people enjoying a picnic. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse, with a group of people in a motorboat in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Photographic holiday card from the Q.J. O'Sullivan family. The children of the family are outdoors and are all dressed in winter clothes. Two of the childr... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Buddy Brown poses outdoors standing on a box wearing boxing gloves and trunks. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Football player catching a football, as the referee is officiating and defensive players are running up alongside the one handling the ball. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | A view of the back of the Monona Golf Course Club House (aka Nathaniel and Harriet Dean House, built in 1856) 4718 Monona Drive. The large screened porch w... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Mary Griggs is sitting in the stern of a canoe paddling the Namakagon River with a male friend sitting in the bow. Mary is wearing shorts and a white blous... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Crystal Cave Gift Shop & Cafe, Spring Valley, Wisconsin". On reverse it reads: "Crystal Cave, Spring Valley, Wisconsin. Highway Wisco... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Republican State Assembly members Bob Matheson and Harvey Abraham (with a third, unidentified person) standing on a dock. Abraham is hold... |
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