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Family Portraits - Children with Grandparents

Date: 1900
Description: A scrapbook page containing an image of an elderly man (presumably grandfather), a young boy and a young girl, and an image of the same children with an el...
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Family Portraits - Children with Grandparents

Date: 1900
Description: A scrapbook page containing two images; one of an elderly man (presumably grandfather), an elderly woman (presumably grandmother), two younger women, a you...
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Scrabble Game

Date: 04 11 1965
Description: A hospital patient plays a scrabble game with an occupational therapist.
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Mother's Day

Date: 04 23 1963
Description: A grandmother with daughter and granddaughter. They are nicely dressed for mother's day.
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Model Builders' Reunion

Date: 1984
Description: A reunion of former members of Hangar 13, an organization of Beloit boys that built and raced model airplanes during the 1930s.
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Visiting Queens at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1962
Description: Miss Wisconsin 1962, Joan Mary Engh, and Alice in Dairyland 1962-63, Sylvia Lee, enjoy a drink of milk with an elderly gentleman during their visit to the ...
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Belle Case La Follette and Grandson

Date: 1929
Description: Snapshot of Belle Case La Follette with her grandson, Robert La Follette Sucher. She is wearing a large hat and a coat with a fur collar and cuffs. It is...
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Senator Proxmire and Constituents

Date: 07 1969
Description: Senator William Proxmire greets three elderly women seated on a bench at the Capitol Square.
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Governor Goodland at the Fair

Date: 1944
Description: Looking every bit his age (82), Governor Walter S. Goodland arrives at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Old Ladies' Home

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of an "old ladies' home." Caption reads: "Old Ladies' Home, Racine, Wis."
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Birthday Party

Date: 1991
Description: Four Brown family members at Eleanore A. Brown Haydon McGowan's birthday party.
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Eleanore A. Brown Haydon McGowan

Date: 1992
Description: Eleanore A. Brown Haydon McGowan just after her 100th birthday. A portrait of of Timothy Brown II hangs above her.
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Nettie Fowler McCormick Holding Baby

Date: 1922
Description: Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923) holding her infant great-niece, Nancy Fowler Merle-Smith (b. 1921). Nettie is sitting in a wheelchair on a path, with s...
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Dora Larsan

Date: 12 09 1909
Description: Studio portrait of Dora Larsan, wearing a lace collar and a black dress.
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Susan Washburn

Date: 12 28 1909
Description: Studio portrait of Susan Washburn, who is wearing a black dress and a watch on a chain.
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Amasa Cobb in Later Years

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait with walking cane of Amasa Cobb as an elderly man.
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Protestant Home for the Aged

Date: 1911
Description: Four-story extended building. A woman with an umbrella is near the left entrance, and a man is walking across the raised lawn near the center right. Captio...
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Hospital Room

Date: 1930
Description: Posed view of a patient room in the recently constructed Methodist Hospital, showing a nurse on the telephone near a bed, and a doctor and elderly patient ...
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Frederick Jackson Turner at Hancock Point

Date: 1927
Description: Frederick Jackson Turner poses with a gun in his hand outdoors at Hancock Point on Frenchman's Bay.
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Peace Parade in Madison

Date: 1970
Description: A Ford Mustang carrying four elderly men and one woman driving past a crowd in a demonstration against the war in Vietnam. A sign on the passenger side of ...

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