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Dump Trucks on a Farm

Date: 1955
Description: View of a two family farm with seven dump trucks parked to the far right of the house.
Photograph

Machines Digging up the Ground

Date: 1955
Description: Slightly elevated view of a truck, crane and other digging equipment being used to dig up ground near a field. Several mounds of dirt are behind the machin...
Photograph

On a Bench in the Woods

Date: 1955
Description: Group portrait of Robert Krueger sitting with two elderly women and another man on a bench in the woods.
Photograph

Standing by Two Cars

Date: 1955
Description: Group portrait of two women and a man standing together in front of two automobiles parked on the Krueger farm. In the background are barns and a silo.
Photograph

Picnic in the Woods

Date: 1955
Description: View from end of picnic table of five women and two men standing and sitting during a picnic in the middle of a woods. Plates, cups, thermoses, and various...
Photograph

View of Several Farms

Date: 1955
Description: Elevated view from a hill towards a valley with several farms and fields. A forested hill is in the far background.
Photograph

Crawler Crane and Drag Bucket — Double Exposure

Date: 1955
Description: Double exposure of a drag bucket digging dirt in a field.
Photograph

Paul Vanderbilt Portrait

Date: 1955
Description: Waist-up portrait of Paul Vanderbilt sitting sideways on a chair. He was Curator of the Iconographic Collections, State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Poster

"Sein oder nicht sein" (To Be or Not to Be) Film Poster

Date: 1955
Description: German film poster for the re-release of the American film. Abstract image of Adolf Hitler's face illustrated on half a broken egg shell shape, with four s...
Map or Atlas

City of Galesville Wis. : Simplified Street Map, Section 2, Ordinance No. 121

Date: 1955
Description: This blue line print shows streets, fair grounds, schools, parks, and a cemetery. Streets, points of interest, and Lake Marinuka are labeled. The middle le...
Photograph

Badger Village Star Gazer, Man with Homemade Telescope

Date: 1955
Description: Interior portrait of a man sitting at a kitchen table adjusting his homemade telescope. His wife is washing dishes behind him. Open shelves on the wall dis...
Photograph

City Hall Demolition

Date: 1955
Description: View across Mifflin Street, towards Madison City Hall as it is being demolished. On the street women are walking around the construction to get to the side...
Map or Atlas

Map of Rock County

Date: 1955
Description: This cadastral map shows highways, land owners, railroads, and rivers.
Photograph

Elsa Seipp Madlener

Date: 1955
Description: A handwritten note describes this portrait as: "Aunt Elsa in her summer house "The Lindens" when she was eighty years old." She is wearing a print dress an...
Map or Atlas

Stockbridge: Stockbridge Reserve

Date: 1955
Description: This map shows landownership in the old Stockbridge Indian reservation on Lake Winnebago in Calumet County. The lots are numbered and labeled by owner. A b...
Map or Atlas

Map of Kewaunee County

Date: 1955
Description: This map shows roads, trails, county lines, town borders, section lines, railroads, rivers, lakes, and Lake Michigan on the far right. The bottom margin in...
Map or Atlas

Eagle River Region

Date: 1955
Description: This map shows roads, golf courses, airports, fire towers, schools, camp grounds, rivers, streams, lakes, and railroads. The right margin of the map includ...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Turnpike Commission Toll Road Route

Date: 1955
Description: This set of 32 maps and an index show the (then) proposed route of the Wisconsin Turnpike. The index shows the entire route of the turnpike, and the major ...
Photograph

"Monona-Mobile" Launch

Date: 1955
Description: View from rocky shoreline of the launching of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon car) onto Lake Monona. The boat launch is on the left. "11248" is painted on the...
Photograph

"Monona-Mobile" on Lake Monona

Date: 1955
Description: View across water towards the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon car) on Lake Monona, close to a pier on the left where a man is standing and watching. Buildings on ...

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