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| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Several children are gathered outdoors around a bushel basket filled with apples, taking as many apples as they can. Caption reads: "School children posed ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | John L. Lewis sitting in his living room next to a fireplace with a clock on the mantle. There is a radio on a stand on the right. |
| 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: | Illustrated postcard of an elevated view of Monona Bay, the Isthmus and Lake Mendota. A residential neighborhood is in the foreground. Caption reads: "Madi... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View from front towards two horses pulling a plow in a field being driven by a boy. On the right an older man is walking beside the team, and in the backgr... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of 8th Street, looking north in a central business district. Cars are parked along the curb, and other cars are moving down the stre... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a factory near Marshfield. Railroad tracks are on the right. Caption reads: "Berg Equipment Co. Plant, Marshfield, Wisonsin." |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View upriver across water towards the Big Eddy Falls on the Wolf River. A group of people are standing on the right bank. Caption reads: "Big Eddy Falls, M... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View towards a man wearing a hat and tall boots who is standing with his hand on a large wheel, perhaps a mill wheel, which is leaning against trees on the... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Elevated view along a hillside into a valley, with forests, buildings, and crop fields. Caption reads: "Barree Coulee from St. Joseph's Ridge, La Crosse Co... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | The chute is equipped with rail for the carts that haul the limestone at the Lime Kiln. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Elevated interior view of a paper mill with paper making machinery. An employee is standing next to the machinery on the left. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Snow covered ice extends into the Wisconsin River from the shorelines. Trees line the river bank in the background. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Snow-covered farm buildings and trees, with a path through the snow cutting across the field in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View from hill towards a farm nestled in a valley. Trees dot the slopes, and woods cover the tops of the hills. |
| 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 (Burke) is standing at the edge of Garmisch Road (formerly County Highway D) with her left foot on a small amount of leaf strewn snow. She is 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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