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Nikita Khrushchev Visits Iowa Farm

Date: 1959
Description: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev inspecting hogs on a farm. Khrushchev is accompanied by Roswell "Bob" Garst and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge.
Photograph

Purdy House

Date: 1959
Description: View from street of the Purdy house, Portage, Wisconsin. A stone wall runs along the sidewalk, topped with an iron fence.
Photograph

Elevated View of Lake Monona

Date: 1959
Description: Elevated view looking east from shoreline of Lake Monona towards Monona shoreline. There is a road, railroad tracks, and a rocky beach area with parked au...
Photograph

Lake Monona

Date: 1959
Description: Elevated view looking south over Lake Monona. Shoreline and automobiles in parking lot in lower right, next to a road. Railroad tracks cross the lake and b...
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Cuba from Air

Date: 1959
Description: Aerial view of the island of Cuba taken from a small plane. Part of the plane with a Cuban flag painted on it is in the frame, and the island with many bui...
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Juan Almeida Bosque on a Picnic in Cuba

Date: 1959
Description: Juan Almeida Bosque, operating chief of the Cuban airforce, and a small group having a picnic in the countryside of Cuba. Three soldiers in fatigues are si...
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Safehouse Motel

Date: 1959
Description: Motel that was formerly a clandestine safe-house for the 26th of July Movement during the Cuban Revolution. Parking lot with a blue car in front of a pink,...
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People in Countryside, Cuba

Date: 1959
Description: A man wearing a straw hat is sitting on the ground holding a baby in the countryside in Cuba. A woman sitting behind him is looking at the photographer. Th...
Photograph

International Truck and Cofferdam

Date: 1959
Description: Color photo of an International truck driving beneath a bridge spanning a dam on the Colorado River.
Photograph

Bridge Across Colorado River

Date: 1959
Description: An International truck sits on a bridge spanning Glen Canyon and the Colorado River.
Photograph

Bridge Construction Site

Date: 1959
Description: International trucks parked near a bridge construction site.
Map or Atlas

County Forestry Map

Date: 1959
Description: This map identifies public forest land and industrial forest land as of 1959 in Oneida County, Wisconsin, using a 1930 base map showing the township and ra...
Map or Atlas

Soil Map of Oneida County Wisconsin

Date: 1959
Description: Map of soil in Oneida County. Bottom of the map includes a legend of soil; "SECOND CLASS SOILS GOOD TO FAIR FARM LAND" are represented in shades of yellow ...
Photograph

Aerial View of Westgate Shopping Center

Date: 1959
Description: Aerial view of the Westgate Shopping Center under construction.
Map or Atlas

Lake Geneva Wisconsin and Big Foot Beach State Park, Wisconsin Conservation Department

Date: 1959
Description: This map of Lake Geneva has relief shown by contours and water depths shown by isolines. The map includes an index of schools, churches, public services, i...
Photograph

Hillsboro Canning Plant

Date: 1959
Description: An official and workmen at Hillsboro Canning Plant examining a a large truckload of corn as it's dumped into a huge unloading platform. The individuals pic...
Drawing

Concept Drawing of a Scout Roadster

Date: 1959
Description: Original Scout drawing circa 1959.
Map or Atlas

Wards & Precincts

Date: 1959
Description: This map shows wards and precincts by number, local streets, roads, parks, Shorewood Hills, Maple Bluff, Middleton, Verona, McFarland, Monona, Truax Field,...
Map or Atlas

Real Estate Map, Washington Island, Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1959
Description: This map includes directories, illustrations, and an inset location map and also covers Rock, Hog, Detroit and Plum islands.
Map or Atlas

Map of Section 6, Township 49 North, Range 3 West of the Fourth Principal Meridian in Wisconsin, Ashland County

Date: 1959
Description: This map shows landownership, acreages, and old fort road on the southwest corner of Madeline Island. The map includes an explanation of survey in the midd...

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