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| Date: | 05 15 1941 |
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| Description: | Three African American field artillery soldiers crossing a creek on a TD-18 diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and 155 mm gun. The soldiers were from Bat... |
| Date: | 02 13 1915 |
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| Description: | African-American man and woman on the front porch of a rural home. The unidentified woman is retrieving water from a well, and the man, J.R. Dean, is sitti... |
| Date: | 07 27 1941 |
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| Description: | An elderly man looking blissful, sitting in a boat getting ready to cast his line. |
| Date: | 05 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of Boy Scouts, Troop #4 from South Side Men's Club, at Four Lakes Council Camporee in Olin Park. |
| Date: | 06 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Evangelist W.P. Butler with hand upraised and Rev. Joseph Washington, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church stand beside Lulu Elroy who is about to be baptized... |
| Date: | 05 1902 |
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| Description: | Small group of people, including Alex Krueger, Mrs. E.S. Goetsch, Barnie Goetsch, and Dorothy Goetsch at a fishing hole in Shelby Co. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men standing around a puddle alongside a road near a small snowbank. One man is bending down near the puddle with a hammer in his hand. Signs for beer are ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man operates an International TD-18 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) to deepen a creek channel. Original caption reads: "TD-18 TracTracTor and Emseo(?) Bull... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | An African-American man plays a djembe-like drum, with other people relaxing in the background on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union Terrac... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | An African-American man plays a djembe-like drum, with other people relaxing in the background on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union Terrac... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms stands at Brittingham Park holding his infant son Lewis Arms, Jr. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Andrew Webb Jr. and Al. Weaver standing on a bridge over the "Catfish" (Yahara) River in Tenney Park. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A page from the Webb family album, compiled and captioned by Andrew Webb Jr., son of Caroline Webb, with four images of family friends, including two young... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a man wearing an apron washing an automobile up on a lift. |
| Date: | 07 22 1941 |
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| Description: | Scrapbook page of trip highlights from a bike hosteling trip to Pine Bluff (Dane County), Sauk City (Sauk County), and Okee (Columbia County), sponsored by... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A water hydrant stands next to a drainage ditch, while clothing hangs on a clothes like above. In the background, children walk away from the camera betwee... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A woman and two girls look on as a water hydrant is turned on by the woman. "Two families, 6 people, share this hydrant." “Row upon row of dilapidated bu... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Two children look towards the photographer by a drainage ditch with buildings on all sides. Laundry hangs from clotheslines above. “Row upon row of dilap... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A girl fills a bucket at a water hydrant near a drainage ditch. Buildings are on either side, and laundry hangs from clotheslines above. “Row upon row o... |
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