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Madeline Island Historical Museum Under Construction

Date: 1956
Description: Constructing the Madeline Island Historical Museum in La Pointe which consists of four separate buildings. L-to-r: jail; American Fur Trade storage buildin...
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Far View School

Date: 1956
Description: View of the front of Far View School.
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Kierig-Babbitt Building in Bloomer

Date: 1956
Description: Exterior view of the Kierig-Babbitt building, built in 1880.
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Bloomington High School

Date: 1956
Description: High school. Caption reads: "High School, Bloomington Wis."
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Bloomington Public School

Date: 1956
Description: School known as the "old stone school," the first public school building in Bloomington. The clock tower replaced the former bell tower.
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Automobile Race at the State Fairgrounds

Date: 1956
Description: Automobiles drive past the grandstand at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds as they prepare for the beginning of the race.
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First Lutheran Church

Date: 1956
Description: The First Lutheran Church on the corner of Randall and Milwaukee Streets.
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Little Norway Kitchen

Date: 1956
Description: Exterior view of the kitchen at "Little Norway." Log building with a turf roof. Caption reads: "The Kitchen - Little Norway - Mt. Horeb, Wis."
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Flora van Brink Hony Bader (nee Melkman) in Backyard

Date: 1956
Description: Flora van Brink Hony Bader (nee Melkman) in backyard of her home on Farwell Avenue.
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Magda Herzberger with Her Children

Date: 1956
Description: Magda Herzberger sitting on a lawn outside of Beilinson Hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, with her son Henry and daughter Monika.
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Covering the President

Date: 1956
Description: Rear view of a parade of reporters in open cars following President Eisenhower on a rural road in Iowa. The President is standing in an open car at the rig...
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Connie Moore and LuRay Arms

Date: 1956
Description: Friends Connie Moore (left) and LuRay (Frenchie) Arms pose comically with a motorcycle at 1851 South Park Street. Two children can be seen behind them sitt...
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Arms Family at Devil's Lake

Date: 1956
Description: Lewis, LuRay, Nellie and Bernard Arms arrive at Devil's Lake in a maroon DeSoto convertible automobile. This was the day after Lewis and LuRay's wedding.
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Lewis Arms with a Guitar

Date: 1956
Description: Lewis Arms sits on the trunk of a 1949 convertible (DeSoto?) automobile, strumming a guitar.
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Woman and Children in Substandard Housing

Date: 1956
Description: Woman and four children sing in front of a makeshift tent that is used as their home.
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Women and Children in Substandard Housing

Date: 1956
Description: Woman and four children seated in front of a makeshift tent that serves as their home. There is a washtub and washboard in the foreground and laundry hangs...
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Shack in the Woods

Date: 1956
Description: Young man and a dog in the yard outside a dilapidated shack in the woods that serves as a dwelling. Laundry hangs from a line at left.
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Children at Dilapidated Home

Date: 1956
Description: Five children seated in front of a dilapidated shack that serves as a dwelling. Three dogs roam in the front yard.
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Indian Boys Practice Archery

Date: 1956
Description: Six Native American boys and teenagers take part in an archery competition. They are holding their bows and carrying arrows in a bag on their backs. Riley ...
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Sam Blowsnake

Date: 1956
Description: Sam Blowsnake prepares to shoot an arrow with his bow as a crowd of people watches behind him.

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