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| Date: | 11 14 1958 |
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| Description: | Ronald E. Johnson of Mount Sterling, with world champion cheddar cheese at the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association Contest. |
| Date: | 02 21 1882 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph poster advertising a Milwaukee Mardi Gras celebration, arranged by the Turnverein and Milwaukee Musical Societies, and held at the Exposit... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Frederick Jackson Turner with his History Seminar in an alcove of the Historical Society rooms in the third Wisconsin State Capitol, about 1893-1894. Back ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I poster promoting individuals to garden and can vegetables for the war effort. Produced by the National War Garden Commission. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Arthur Altmeyer speaking at the Inter-American Conference on Social Security, which took place in Buenes Aires. Eva Peron is seated to his left, wearing he... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of L.C. Bates, editor and publisher of the the "Arkansas State Press," a crusading Little Rock newspaper and the husband of the Ark... |
| Date: | 05 15 1935 |
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| Description: | View of a U.S. Pharmacopeia Exhibit about a class of medications called 'digitalis' at the annual Philadelphia on Parade. Digitalis medicines are used to i... |
| Date: | 09 08 1930 |
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| Description: | Four women are playing banjos in the McVicar Photo Service Booth at the 1930 East Side Businessman's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival. |
| Date: | 01 27 1963 |
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| Description: | Young Caucasian boys dressed like Native Americans as part of their YMCA "Indian Guides" program. They are being directed by the "All Nations Chief" Henry ... |
| Date: | 06 05 1971 |
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| Description: | A young Cub Scout member of Pack 86 from Trinity Presbyterian Church hands newspapers he saved to an employee of Shapiro Paper and Metal Co. The task was p... |
| Date: | 03 29 1958 |
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| Description: | A young boy rings a locomotive bell. Other artifacts of locomotive history are on the table before him with members of the Milwaukee chapter of the Nationa... |
| Date: | 04 25 1964 |
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| Description: | A book sale is held by the Mothers Association of Milwaukee-Downer Seminary. |
| Date: | 04 02 1987 |
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| Description: | Three school children are posing for a video camera portrait, one attraction at a school fair sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). |
| Date: | 04 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Boy Scouts lash together lengths of wood as they put up an exhibit about pioneering for Scout-O-Rama. |
| Date: | 01 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Ralph Runge, Local #1 Chairman of the WSDA membership committee, presenting the President Zander Membership Cup to Jay D. Ferguson, Chairman of the winning... |
| Date: | 03 30 1936 |
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| Description: | Three men displaying $5000 check issued by U.S. Treasury Dept. to Richland Cooperative Electric Association for Rural Electrification Program. |
| Date: | 12 20 1935 |
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| Description: | Five men from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Camera Club. They are looking at photographs in Porter Butts' office at the Memorial Union. |
| Date: | 08 24 1934 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist. |
| Date: | 09 27 1933 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. Margaret Wells Wood, speaker on "Petting Parties," at the Loraine Hotel. A lecturer and field worker for the American Social Hygiene Assoc... |
| Date: | 05 10 1933 |
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| Description: | Mayor James R. Law buying V.F.W. poppy from Miss Jane Elizabeth Ward. |
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