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Boy Scouts Raising Flag

Date: 1955
Description: Five Boy Scouts raising the American flag in park area.
Photograph

Louie Suttner

Date: 1955
Description: Louie Suttner inspecting the wheat crop at his farm, the current site of the Fox River Mall.
Map or Atlas

Parking Area Study, Milwaukee County Zoological Garden

Date: 1955
Description: Bottom of the map reads: "PARKING AREA STUDY MILWAUKEE COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN SCALE 1"=200" APRIL 21, 1955 TOTAL PARKING AREA - 3736 CARS 31.1 acres". Th...
Book or Pamphlet

Trucks: A Little Golden Activity Book

Date: 1955
Description: Cover of a Little Golden Activity Book for children titled "Trucks." Features a color illustration of International trucks, including an International S-10...
Photograph

Pacific Coast Aggregates Truck

Date: 1955
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of an International cement mixer truck owned by San Francisco's Pacific Cement and Aggregates, Inc.
Drawing

"Artists and Models"

Date: 1955
Description: Sketch for a costume for Dean Martin in the film "Artists and Models" done by Edith Head. The costume is a painter's smock worn with pants and includes a l...
Map or Atlas

Plat Maps of Newton Township in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin Showing Land Ownership, Mortgages, and Soils

Date: 1955
Description: These 24 plat maps of the Town of Newton, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, show soil type; mortgages in force as of January 1, 1932; land warrants holders; mor...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Burnett County Lakes Region

Date: 1955
Description: This 1950s tourist brochure features a map of Burnett County, Wisconsin, and northern Polk County which shows highways and roads, railroads, landmarks, and...
Map or Atlas

Ashburn's Madison City & County Map

Date: 1955
Description: Shows city limits, adjoining municipalities, and schools. Indexes, illustrations, ancillary map of Dane County, and ancillary map of Madison business secti...
Photograph

Mr. Beat in his Store

Date: 1955
Description: Mr. Beat in his store.
Photograph

Man at a Parking Meter

Date: 1955
Description: Man inserting a coin in a parking meter.
Photograph

Lorin and Sherry Gillette

Date: 1955
Description: Sherry and Lorin Gillett (Sherwin Gillett's adult children) toasting with cocktails.
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Wausau Wisconsin

Date: 1955
Description: This map of Wausau distributed by the Wausau Chamber of Commerce was originally published in July of 1940 and shows the Wisconsin River. The map includes a...
Photograph

Bee Careful

Date: 1955
Description: Robert E Bodoh, the photographer's son-in-law removes a swarm of bees from a pine tree branch. He is placing the swarm in a bag.

As the person collecting...

Photograph

Waiting at the Courthouse

Date: 1955
Description: Unidentified people waiting or conferring, possibly lawyer and clients at a courthouse.
Photograph

Mazopust Celebration

Date: 1955
Description: Man playing a French horn at the Mazopust dance, part of a 3-day Bohemian celebration before Ash Wednesday.
Photograph

Hubert P. Buglass

Date: 1955
Description: Portrait of Hubert P. Buglass.
Photograph

Winter Landscape

Date: 1955
Description: Winter landscape in the Kettle Moraine area of Wisconsin.
Photograph

Children Examining a Pocket

Date: 1955
Description: Three children examining the contents of an apron pouch.
Photograph

Picnic for Dr. Jones

Date: 1955
Description: Large group passing between serving tables at a picnic in honor of Dr. Jones, for fifty years the town's physician.

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