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Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
Date: | 1853 |
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Description: | Half plate daguerreotype of E. Harwood, Dr. William Brisbane, and Levi Coffin, sitting in a row. |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Group portrait of a large logging crew posing outdoors in the snow at their camp in front of a log building. One of the men is playing a fiddle or a violin... |
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Description: | The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi... |
Date: | 1962 |
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Description: | Daisy Bates and others at Woolworth's boycott. |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | Lumbermen in their bunk house at Ole Emerson's lumber camp. Several of them have pipes in their mouths and their socks are hanging to dry. |
Date: | 07 04 1913 |
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Description: | Group of people known as the "Moonlight Outing Club" at Muskego Lake. |
Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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Description: | African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Stereograph of a group of men standing and sitting on a raft, watching Dick Stevenson in the center dancing. Zack Dugas is at left clapping time, and Jack ... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | A Knapp, Stout & Company crew with J. Bracklin (in fur coat), logging superintendent. |
Date: | 09 21 1914 |
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Description: | Group portrait of men posing while standing and sitting on two small flat cars linked to each other. One of the cars is loaded with lumber. Another set of ... |
Date: | 1933 |
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Description: | Men and women celebrating the end of Prohibition, around a table with bottles of various alcoholic beverages. They are holding a sign that reads: "In Compl... |
Date: | 02 25 1915 |
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Description: | Five impoverished and disheveled-looking African American children sitting on the ground near their home. Original caption reads: "These five little Negro ... |
Date: | 02 17 1915 |
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Description: | Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house. |
Date: | 05 22 1935 |
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Description: | Group portrait of a large group of children in costume, some in blackface, on the stage at Franklin School. 305 W. Lakeside Street. |
Date: | 11 19 1934 |
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Description: | Three hunters posing with shotguns and their bounty of a fox, squirrels and rabbits. The man on the right may be UW-Madison chef Carson Gulley. |
Date: | 10 29 1934 |
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Description: | Portrait of seven of the twelve members of the Chris Copus family standing beside a pot belly stove in their makeshift garage home on Roth Street. They wer... |
Date: | 06 02 1933 |
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Description: | Governor Albert G. Schmedeman signing the Beer Bill with 14 men observing. |
Date: | 07 15 1948 |
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Description: | A Mexican woman and her six children are standing on the porch of the multiple-family housing provided to them by the pea cannery for which their husband a... |
Date: | 1946 |
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Description: | Group portrait of International Harvester's Evansville Works employees wearing suits assembled in front of the factory. The Evansville Works produced refri... |
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