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Hubert Humphrey Campaigning

Date: 1960
Description: Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota campaigning for the presidential nomination in southwestern Wisconsin. Humphrey stands at the historical marker in Co...
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Sennett and Winslow Capture

Date: 11 17 1947
Description: Neighbors of the Pomputis family and newspaper reporters wait on a highway near the farm where the confessed murderers were hiding.
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Agricultural Exhibition

Date: 1930
Description: A crowd of people stands outdoors to look at agricultural machinery on display, including a hayloader and a farm truck.
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Lucille Ballweg Funeral

Date: 08 02 1948
Description: Scene in the cemetery near Martinsville during the internment of Lucille Ballweg, victim of a tornado.
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Walworth County Fair

Date: 1913
Description: Elevated view of the Walworth County Fair. A large crowd gathers around a carousel.
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Tractor Demonstration at Hinsdale Farm

Date: 1945
Description: A group of spectators gathers around the edge of a field on the Hinsdale experimental farm to view a tractor in use.
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Group in Field with Arbor

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Description: View from field of people standing near lines of glass bottles in the grass. In the background are tents, and an arbor and several individuals underneath, ...
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Ho-Chunk Cranberry Gathering

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Description: View from distance of two groups of people in a open field surrounded by trees. On the right are what appears to be European Americans, with four buggies p...
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Crowd in Field

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Description: View from hill across dirt road and fence of a crowd of European Americans, and possibly some Ho-Chunk spectators. Horses are pulling buggies near the fenc...
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Ho-Chunk Group Near Arbor

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Description: A group of Ho-Chunk men, women, and children posed standing in a field. In the background behind them is the front of an arbor with a United States flag, a...
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Wisconsin Heights

Date: 09 29 1906
Description: A group of people looks over the Wisconsin Heights battlefield as a man gestures. A horse-drawn buggy is on the right and another team of horses is visible...
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Festival Grounds Camping Area

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: The Sound Storm music festival site as seen from the camping area. Attendees mill around many tents, campers and automobiles. In the far background a large...
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Man Dancing

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A man wearing a hat, shorts, and fringed vest, with a pipe strung onto hit belt loop, dances among a crowd of other audience members at the Sound Storm mus...
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Livestock Judging at Union High School Agricultural Fair

Date: 10 05 1912
Description: Elevated view of crowd around horses during livestock judging. In the background are fields, a road, power lines, and in the far distance along the horizon...
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Boys Participating in High Jump

Date: 06 13 1916
Description: Boys participating in high jump. Original caption reads: "Boys from the various schools of Cook county doing the running high jump at the school festival h...
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Rock Festival

Date: 06 27 1970
Description: Elevated view from back of stage of band playing at a rock festival at the "People's Fair." In the background is a crowd watching from a lawn. Tents are on...

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