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| Date: | 06 01 1929 |
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| Description: | Bernard Arms (standing), uncle of Lewis Arms, shares a picnic with his neighbors Mr. and Mrs. (Betsy) Nofsinger. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A man is holding corncobs in his hand while feeding several pigs on an International Harvester demonstration farm. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A man is using two mules to pull a corn cultivator through a field on an International Harvester Company demonstration farm. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Man driving a Farmall Regular tractor with an attached cultivator to work in a field at an International Harvester demonstration farm. A fence and haystack... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | An umbrella is shading a man while he is driving a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?)tractor and disc harrow through a field. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Escape artist Harry Houdini being tortured by cannibals in the silent film "Terror Island." Like the other films in which Houdini stared, the plot was desi... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Men and children gather around a man giving a Christmas address. Coweta County Courthouse can be seen beyond the crowd, a Neoclassical Revival building des... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Henry H. Proctor Jr.? wearing a suit jacket, shirt, and tie. |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Three African American women, Lucille Jones, Charlotte Simms, and Phoebe Hines, posing in Vilas 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 two images of friends, an image of the corner groc... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A page from the Webb family album, compiled and captioned by Andrew Webb Jr., with images of Caroline Webb (Andrew's mother), Henry P. Jones, and Circus Da... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with images of infants and young children being cared for at the settlement house, including a group outside... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Groups of children are sitting at tables for a Saturday morning sewing group at Neighborhood House, with a woman helping the children at each table. One bo... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Laura White, Josephine Vance and Rubie (White) Bond posing together outdoors. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length profile portrait of Freddie Mae Hill, the first African-American resident of Madison to graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison H... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men in the Pullman Porter's Union posing indoors. A group of men are standing around five men sitting around a table. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Poster for the film "The Lure of a Woman." A man, woman, and a little girl are standing on the steps of a house. The little girl is reaching out to a woma... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Poster for the film "The Flaming Crisis." A is man laying on a cot in a jail with his hand raised to protect himself. Standing near the cot is a ghost wear... |
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