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Little Oscar Shaking Hands with Boy

Date: 02 23 1940
Description: Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar, is sitting in a Speed-o-Racer and shaking hands with Billy Marble. Behind them is the Wienermobile.
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Alfalfa for the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1951
Description: Irving Gerhardt, instructor of Vocational Agriculture, and Duane Lehr, Future Farmers of America member and agriculture student from Madison East High Scho...
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Fair Concessions

Date: 07 10 1985
Description: People, including a very eager little girl, stand around a concession stand to buy popcorn, peanuts, cotton candy, snow-cones, and other snacks at the 50th...
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Pasture with Brick House and Barns

Date: 1870
Description: A pasture is in the foreground with a brick house, barn and connected outbuildings behind it.
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Men and Boys in Field near Farmstead

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Description: Three men and a boy in wheat field with scythes and a split-rail fence. Barn with stone foundation and cupola and frame house in background; additional st...
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People posed in Field near Farmstead

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Description: Two men stand in a field, one holding a cup, the other pouring from a jug. Behind them, a man sits on reaper and two boys wrestle, standing in the holding ...
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Reque Family and Home

Date: 1873
Description: Family and frame house of Lars David Reque. The family is posing in the yard which is surrounded by a picket fence, with a large frame house behind with ca...
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Lars Reque and Martha Rothie Nelson

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Description: Studio portrait of Lars Davidson Reque, age 90, seated showing a book to his grandniece Martha Rothie Nelson, age 5.
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Man and Boy in G. Larsen's Barnyard

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Description: A man and a boy are in the barnyard of the G. Larsen farm with cows and dogs. A haystack with a temporary roof and a drive-through corn crib are evident.
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Wisconsin State Fair Parking

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Description: Panorama view of a parking lot filled with cars at the state fair.
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Wisconsin State Fair Parking

Date: 1947
Description: Center of an elevated panoramic view of a full parking lot, with the grandstand in the background.
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Wisconsin State Fair Parking

Date: 1947
Description: Right side of an elevated panoramic view of a full parking lot with houses and electrical towers in the background.
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Loading Stones into a Truck

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Description: Members of the First Unitarian Society loading stones at a quarry to be used in the construction of the Meeting House. The building was designed by Frank L...
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Party Banquet for Gardner Baking Co. Families

Date: 04 11 1928
Description: Group portrait of Gardner Baking Co. families wearing paper party hats sitting at two long banquet tables. There are Purity Bread signs over the tables whi...
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John Deitz Family

Date: 1906
Description: Casual family portrait of John Deitz and his wife and five children.
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Dalton Trumbo and Son

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Description: Dalton Trumbo holds his son Christopher on his lap while smoking a cigarette. Cover image of the booklet "To a Friend of the Hollywood Ten."
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Family Posed near Frame House

Date: 1874
Description: A family poses in front of the picket fence before their frame house. Two little girls hold dolls in their laps. A dog sits on the grass nearby. Behind the...
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Family in Wooded Yard

Date: 1873
Description: Family posing in a wooded yard. One man holds a wooden flute. Behind them is a Greek Revival house with a Madison Mutual insurance sign over the door.
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Adults at a Table Near House

Date: 1872
Description: Fifteen adults are seated around table being served coffee in the yard. One woman sits at the spinning wheel and another at a sewing machine. The Greek Rev...
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Family around House

Date: 1874
Description: Women standing throughout the yard, with a man standing on the far left on the porch of the house holding a shovel. The frame house has a porch on two side...

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