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Rural School Health Parade and Festival

Date: 05 1928
Description: School children and teachers from Lemont township marching in a rural school festival parade. The children are dressed in white cloaks and hats bearing a m...
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Fruits and Flowers Building

Date: 1935
Description: The Fruits and Flowers Building at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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WPA Exhibit

Date: 1937
Description: Opening ceremonies for a Work Progress Administration (WPA) exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Audience and Trucks at Demonstration

Date: 1945
Description: A group of men sit in bleachers in a tent to view a demonstration involving two International trucks on International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental far...
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Woodville Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Men hauling wagon loads of scrap metal with a Farmall H tractor, horses, and an automobile. The men are participating in a scrap drive, possibly during Gov...
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Farmall H Tractor in Woodville Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Helmuth Strobush and his son Jerry haul scrap metal with a Farmall H tractor and a McCormick-Deering farm wagon. The tractor is parked near a co-op service...
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Woodville Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Men with horses, wagons, cars and trucks are parked alongside railroad tracks near a large scrap metal pile. The men are participating in a wartime scrap d...
Painting

Sweet Clover School

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of Sweet Clover School near the end of the school year in late April or early May. Cows graze in an adjoining pasture and a farmer is complet...
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Food Stand at Alfalfa Presentation

Date: 1913
Description: Elevated view of a crowd of people gathered around a booth on Joe Wing's farm to eat during an alfalfa presentation. A sign on the booth reads, "Served by ...
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Crowd at Picnic

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: View from behind fence of people standing beneath and around tents at a picnic. A table at right is acting as a refreshment area and is holding a coffee po...
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Wisconsin Centennial Industrial Exposition

Date: 06 1936
Description: Elevated view of the Wisconsin Centennial Industrial Exposition held in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House.
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Widmer Cheese

Date: 1972
Description: "Widmer Cheese was a campaign stop for New York Mayor John Lindsay as he looked for votes for president."
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Obreros Unidos March — Contact Sheet

Date: 1966
Description: A series of images from a contact sheet containing scenes of Obreros Unidos (United Workers) leaving Wautoma and marching towards Madison along Highway 21 ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 154-160

Date: 
Description: Patience we learned and requiem
to rest the tense who die
For we forgot the brazen earth
in courtship of the sky
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Memorial Day

Date: 05 1993
Description: Mourners, miltary band, and white crosses on Memorial day.
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Agricultural Exhibit in Tent

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of agricultural exhibit in a tent.
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Cream Separators on Display

Date: 1900
Description: Cream separators on display at an agricultural exhibition in a tent. Men are standing on the left.
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Soil Conservation Show Grounds

Date: 1948
Description: View down hill towards Soil Conservation Show Grounds. Cars are parked at the bottom of the hill, with two large tents behind. A U.S. Flag and an IH flag f...
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Bliss Alfalfa Club

Date: 07 15 1913
Description: Group portrait of the Bliss Alfafa Club of Emmet County, showing the President Mr. Grant. The group of men, women and children is standing on an unpaved ro...
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Industrial Tractors at Shipping Dock

Date: 08 16 1926
Description: A man is driving an industrial tractor to pull a large trailer along a shipping dock. There is a ship alongside the dock in the background.

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