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| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | The Ashburn family sits around a table in their yard. Behind them is a frame house with plants on its porch, curtains visible in its windows, and a pump by... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around table for coffee with a frame house behind that has a sewing machine on its porch, and a lightning rod on the roof. A framed pi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of the porch of the house at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A group of women are gathered on the fron porch. Snow covers the ground. |
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| Description: | Portrait of a man and a woman posed sitting in the corner of a room near a desk and two book stands. The desk has a clock and many books on it. |
| Date: | 09 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Mr. & Mrs. Otto Kautz are looking at floor plans and model homes. About one-hundred exhibitors have arranged displays in four tents to show the newest and ... |
| Date: | 09 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Television was a feature enjoyed by children and adults at the Madison Home Show. The fascination of new improvements for the home, many of them on displa... |
| Date: | 09 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Three men standing at the microphone during a WIBA Radio broadcast from the Madison Home Show. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man descending a curved staircase inside a building. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to illustra... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a winter nighttime landscape. At the bottom half of the card is a snow-covered house with two pine trees. The roof of a second house is i... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a scene of a village in New Mexico. Adobe dwellings with hills, fences, a ladder, trees and a burro can be seen in the background. Six fi... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Photographic holiday postcard of a couple on their bikes in a driveway. Shrubs and palm trees surround them. A map of the Pacific Ocean is in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a soldier walking while carrying a child who is waving an American flag. The soldier is wearing a uniform and a campaign hat. Two childre... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with three layers. The bottom layer is a pink and white card with embossed floral designs. The middle layer (not visible) is a country... |
| Date: | 11 1952 |
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| Description: | John Lavine (left), Nancy Jane Nelson, Virginia Rafshol, and Gary Berger indicate their support for the presidential candidacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower. As ... |
| Date: | 09 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Worker's bunks on a railroad car ferry. The spare room has a calendar, light, radiator, table, locking closet and two bunks. Workers' clothes hand on the w... |
| Date: | 09 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Worker reads union newspaper while sitting on a bunk and smoking a cigar. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries.... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Rural Route No. 3 in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, with a woman in front of a house retrieving mail from a mailbox and a horse-drawn U.S. R.F.D. ma... |
| Date: | 03 1998 |
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| Description: | "Village officials help kick off Valley Estates Subdivision." |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Florentina Krueger sitting in a chair with her two children, Jennie and Edgar Krueger, standing on either side of her. A book is lying ... |
| Date: | 07 1903 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Edgar Krueger sitting in a rocking chair reading a book next to a house. He has the book he is reading open in his lap. Ivy is growing... |
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