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Moving Pictures at Inter-County Fair

Date: 1905
Description: A crowd, including Evaline, Nellie and Harriet Bennett, looking at large banner advertisements for moving pictures. Moving picture subjects include fire fi...
Photograph

United Nations Protest

Date: 10 1956
Description: Glenn Turner is holding the United Nations flag, and his wife is carrying the flag of the state of Wisconsin. A supporter is holding the American flag. One...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Mower, Reaper and Twine Binder Catalog

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring an engraving of boys marching under a benner of "Vic...
Photograph

IHC Cream Separator Display at Iowa State Fair

Date: 08 22 1929
Description: Men, women, and children at an International Harvester cream separator exhibit at the Iowa State Fair. A company representative appears to be pointing out ...
Photograph

Wagon in Parade

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Description: Horse-drawn wagon carrying people wearing costumes and hats in a parade. The banner on the side reads, "Miss F.E. Harman, who ran a milliner's establishmen...
Photograph

Stearns Company Strike

Date: 1975
Description: Informational meeting for the employees of the Stearns Coal and Lumber Co. at about the time the company was sold. During the 1920s and 1930s the company w...
Photograph

Cassville Campgrounds

Date: 1905
Description: Children and adults at picnic campground owned by Gus Klindt near Cassville.
Photograph

Large Group at Company Picnic

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Description: The Wisconsin Telephone Company Employees' Picnic (written on a large banner held up by the front line of people). People in the back of the crowd are hold...
Photograph

A Presidential Campaign Banner Over the Street

Date: 1912
Description: A street view featuring a campaign banner supporting Theodore Roosevelt (10/27/1858 – 1/6/1919) as president and Hiram W. Johnson (9/2/1866 – 8/6/1945) fo...
Photograph

East Side Women's Club Mother-Daughter Banquet

Date: 03 17 1952
Description: Leona W. Roman, the chairwoman of the annual East Side Women's Club Mother-Daughter Banquet, is shown with her daughters who were guests at the banquet. Le...
Photograph

Cook County School Festival

Date: 06 1916
Description: A group of children and adults, some holding American flags and Cook County banners, standing in a field to watch events at the Cook County School Festival...
Photograph

Girls Around the Maypole with Flowers

Date: 1913
Description: Group of girls holding fabricated flowers around a maypole at an annual school festival in Belwood Park. A large group of fellow students and teachers look...
Photograph

Parade Celebrating 100th Anniversary of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church

Date: 08 01 1953
Description: Pictured on the float in a parade celebrating the 100th anniversary of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Cross Plains is a group of men and women garbe...
Photograph

Panorama of Labor Union 802 of Madison, Wisconsin

Date: 
Description: Local Unions 154, 182 and 802 posed in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Includes Madison Locals of Brewery Workmen, Carpenters & Joiners, Cigar Makers...
Photograph

Religious Procession

Date: 1918
Description: A large group of Russians conducting a religious parade through a town. The men in the group are carrying the iconography.
Photograph

Religious Procession

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of a large group of Russians conducting a religious parade through a town. The men in the group are carrying the iconography. Soldiers in mil...
Postcard

Crowd in Period Dress

Date: 1918
Description: Photographic postcard of a group of men and women dressed in clothing of the mid-nineteenth century posing at the side of a Baraboo Street. Most of the wom...
Photograph

John F. Dunn Flour & Feed Float

Date: 
Description: Outdoor view of a wagon with two men and two girls which is pulled by a team of two horse wearing fly nets, and decorated with a banner that reads "John F....
Photograph

Margaret McGuire Offering Cheese to Young Boy

Date: 1952
Description: Margaret McGuire, the 1948 Alice in Dairyland, offering Wisconsin Cheese to a young boy seated in a boat-shaped display of "Swift's Brookfield Fine Cheese....
Photograph

Equinox Festival

Date: 09 09 1978
Description: A group portrait of musicians posing with a banner at the Equinox Festival. Seated in front from left to right are Tony Castaneda, drummer Ken Koepler (kne...

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