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Flute Ceremony

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Description: Ho-Chunk flute ceremony or prayer for rain. Four Ho-Chunk kneel in a square. A flute player and a man with a rattle stand behind on a low, round stone wall...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1890
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for harvesting machinery made by the Plano Manufacturing Company. Features a color illustration of a woman on a stage crown...
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Betty Livesey at the Capitol

Date: 10 08 1928
Description: Five-year-old Betty Livesey pauses for a picture after the "Declaration of Chivalry" ceremony conducted at the 81st annual Capitol Grand Encampment of the ...
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Missionfest

Date: 08 27 1946
Description: Missionfest (Dutch) traditional psalms sung on church grounds.
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Missionfest

Date: 08 27 1946
Description: Missionfest (Dutch) traditional psalms sung on church grounds.
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Missionfest

Date: 08 27 1946
Description: Missionfest (Dutch) traditional psalms sung on church grounds.
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41 Outdoor Theatre Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony

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Description: Ten people at the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the 41 Outdoor Theatre.
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Memorial Chapel in Cambria

Date: 1939
Description: Memorial Chapel, dedicated on May 28, 1939. A large group of people are standing on the lawn in front of the chapel.
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Memorial Chapel in Cambria

Date: 1939
Description: View of Memorial Chapel, dedicated on May 8, 1939. A group of people are gathered on the lawn in front of the chapel.
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New Glarus Centennial

Date: 07 16 1945
Description: Part of the crowd celebrating the New Glarus Centennial. In the background is a monument in memory of the first settlers of the Swiss colony of New Glarus ...
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Boy Scouts Honor Lincoln

Date: 02 11 1947
Description: Madison Boy Scouts and their leader pay tribute to Abraham Lincoln on his birthday by placing a wreath at the foot of the statue on Bascom Hill. Dick Feldt...
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Mitchell Park

Date: 07 04 1917
Description: A crowd gathers for the dedication of the flag pole at Mitchell Park. The conservatory is in the background.
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Jane Morris: S.M. Wood Wedding Party

Date: 06 07 1947
Description: The wedding procession of Jane Morris including the bride, flower girl, maid of honor, two bridesmaids, and two junior bridesmaids at St. Andrew's Episcopa...
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Ground Breaking At Our Lady, Queen of Peace Parish

Date: 07 18 1948
Description: Bishop William P. O'Connor, in vestments, turning the first shovel of dirt for the building that will contain the parish auditorium and six classrooms on t...
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Armistice Day Commemoration

Date: 11 11 1948
Description: Color bearers from the National Guard, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the two American Legion posts, the Spanish-American War veterans, their auxiliaries, a...
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Armistice Day Commemoration

Date: 11 11 1948
Description: Robert Babcock, Lodi, places the American Legion auxiliary post Number 57 memorial wreath at the front of the memorial obelisk on the grounds of the Wiscon...
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Calvary Gospel Church Groundbreaking

Date: 12 12 1948
Description: Participants in the ground breaking ceremonies for the new Calvary Gospel church located at 3822 Mineral Point Road. Men standing with shovels, are, from l...
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Ground-Breaking Ceremony for Addition to Wisconsin General Hospital

Date: 08 09 1949
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm uses a chain saw to make a cut on one of the trees in front of the Wisconsin General hospital. The trees must be removed to make r...
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Confirmation Ceremony

Date: 1910
Description: Twins Marie Johanna and Friedrich Wilhelm Ginnow pose in front of a decorated altar on their confirmation day. This was the last confirmation class at the ...
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Abraham Lincoln Recognition

Date: 02 10 1950
Description: Rev. O.B. Ransopher of Wisconsin Rapids, president of the Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, placed a wreath at the foot of the Abraham Lincoln statue in fro...

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