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Groundbreaking Ceremony

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Description: Developers, local dignitaries, and other businessmen participate in a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the Park Tower Apartments.
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Group Working in Garden

Date: 1920
Description: Children and two women, possibly a school group, work with hand tools in an urban garden. An elevated railroad is in the background, along with the Acme St...
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Akron Soap Box Derby

Date: 08 1957
Description: Van Steiner (15 years-old) of Argyle, Wisconsin, the 1957 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion, working on the steering of his Wisconsin State Journa...
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Lehigh Valley Railroad Station

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Description: View across railroad tracks of group of children awaiting the arrival of a train outside Lehigh Valley Railroad Station.
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Float at Island View Resort on Lake Owen

Date: 1930
Description: View across water of seven people wearing bathing suits on the float or wooden raft in Lake Owen at the Island View Resort. There is a large umbrella on th...
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Christmas Joy

Date: 1939
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a man and three boys positioning a ladder to hang holiday decorations on the exterior of the settle...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 750-757

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Description: Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell
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Family Posing in Sleigh

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Description: A man, woman, and child posing while seated in a horse-drawn sleigh on a snowy road. Behind them are buildings, a fence, and what may be ice harvesting equ...

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