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Men Making Telephone Switchboard Cables

Date: 08 14 1946
Description: Eleven male workers and one supervisor making telephone switchboard cables in the basement of the Wisconsin Telephone Company building.
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Men Relaxing in Folding Chairs

Date: 1918
Description: Two men sit side by side on folding chairs with their arms around each other's shoulders. Another man sits in a chair on the left. A sign on the wall behin...
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Camp MacArthur

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Description: An interior view of soldiers gathered in the Y.M.C.A. game room at Camp MacArthur, on which construction began in 1917.
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International Ladies Garment Workers Unity House

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Description: Men and women in a semi-circle holding hands and posing for the camera inside the International Ladies Garment Workers Unity House. The house was rented in...
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Interior of Sad Shack

Date: 09 29 1943
Description: The interior of the "Sad Shack" at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. Two men are standing and two men are sitting in chairs. Personal items such as por...
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Fourth of July at Park Falls

Date: 07 04 1994
Description: The flag raising during the Fourth of July ceremony, with a group of the local Knights of Columbus on the left. In the foreground on the right is a photogr...
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Aussie Press Hut

Date: 1942
Description: War correspondents pose for a group portrait in the Aussie Press Hut in Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Names, (front, left to rig...
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Group Portrait of People Posing Between Buildings

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Description: Large group of women and young girls, and one man, posing between outdoors between two buildings. In the foreground is a barrel and chairs.
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Street Scene

Date: 1921
Description: A view of the central business district. A creamery on the left. A house on the right with a woman in a rocking chair and two children in front. Some men s...
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Apiary on Roof

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Description: Rooftop apiary, with two men sitting in the background. There are chimneys along the roofline on the right.
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Rex Magnus Club

Date: 10 09 1887
Description: A large group of men pose outside the Rex Magnus Club. Some of the men on the left are holding musical instruments. The words "Rex Magnus" are on the roof.
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Man Smoking in a Lawn Chair

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Description: View towards two men sitting outdoors on the wooden landing of a building near a window and a large, open door. The man in the foreground has his back to t...
Book or Pamphlet

The Buckeye Catalog with Calendar — April & May

Date: 1895
Description: Catalog featuring calendar pages. The month of April features a man and a woman standing outdoors, each is playing a violin. May features a man using a hor...
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Merchant's Inn

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Description: Exterior view of Merchant's Inn located at the southwest corner of S. First Street and Fillmore. Two women sitting on the second floor balcony. A group of ...
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Captain Frank Barnes

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Description: Quarter-length oval-framed portrait of Frank Barnes, in his sixties, sitting in a chair in a garden. He is wearing a suit and vest, and has a moustache and...
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Buttonhole Camera Negative 2

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Description: Six circular images of people in various outdoor activities on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. One is of a long, porch; one of...
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Dinosaur Entrant for UW Circus

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Description: Two men are standing on either side of a large costume of a six-legged dinosaur in front of the Armory on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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Dinosaur Entrant for UW Circus

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Description: Two men are standing on either side of a large costume of a six-legged dinosaur in front of the Armory on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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East Prussian Refugees

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Description: East Prussian refugees in the Zoological Gardens.
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Russian Internees in the Berlin Zoo

Date: 1914
Description: A group of refugees posing for a group portrait in the courtyard of the Berlin zoo.

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