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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Mirror Lake Mill with bridge in foreground. Two women are standing on the bridge looking down at the river. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Men harvesting ice at the Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. The men are using pike poles to slide the blocks to the conveyor and U-shaped tools to split p... |
| Date: | 04 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing next in front of two automobiles parked at the rear of the Fauerbach Brewing Co., 651-653 Williamson Street. The Lake Monona shoreline... |
| Date: | 04 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men standing against a wall, behind the Fauerbach Brewing Co. Railroad tracks are in the foreground, and Lake Monona is in the background. |
| Date: | 08 20 |
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| Description: | Dane County tug of war champion team, dressed in overalls, with ropes used in competition. The team went to the 1934 Chicago World's Fair. |
| Date: | 06 27 1931 |
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| Description: | Man sawing wood in front of a tent in the woods at the University of Wisconsin Tent Colony. The tent is set up on a wood platform. Also known as Camp Galli... |
| Date: | 03 28 1929 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the south east of men constructing the concrete forms for the roof of the addition to the University of Wisconsin-Madison hydraulics lab... |
| Date: | 09 26 1928 |
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| Description: | Tanks at Hydraulics Laboratory, 660 N. Park Street, before moving, taken from hill looking toward Lake Mendota, at the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 09 26 1928 |
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| Description: | First tank at Hydraulics Laboratory, 660 N. Park Street, moving into place, taken from hill looking toward Lake Mendota, at the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 06 26 1909 |
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| Description: | Two men paddle barrels with their hands and feet while a third tips over on Pewaukee Lake at the Waukesha Beach recreation area. Other people watch both f... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Destroying slot machines and other illegal gambling devices at Law Park. From L to R: John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigaret tax division; ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Man loading ice from loading dock with an International Model F (or 31) truck. The truck was operated by the Hudson/Willow River Ice Company. There is a la... |
| Date: | 08 12 1948 |
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| Description: | W.J. Rendall, Earl. E. Wheeler, and George C. Hockney operating a small weed cutter in Lake Mendota off the shore of Maple Bluff. Mr. Hockney is the manufa... |
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| Description: | Black and white postcard of the boat landing in front of Cliff House, a resort hotel, in Devil's Lake State Park. Two men show off their catch of seven fis... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | "Your 1939 Calendar" published for International Harvester farm equipment dealers. The cover features a painting of the Swiss Alps. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Evinrude Division of Outboard Motors Corporation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with the corporation logo and a man racing along in a boat with... |
| Date: | 07 1968 |
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| Description: | Two fisherman pull in a net of carp fish on Lake Winnebago. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Two men stand in the open back of a pickup truck. The truck, equipped with chains on the rear tires, has driven down a wooden ramp onto the ice. There is... |
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