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Driver Training Car at Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 01 11 1939
Description: Governor Julius P. Heil and four men, standing next to a AAA dual control driver training car, courtesy of Pontiac Motor Division. The car is parked in fro...
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Capitol Steps Dancers

Date: 1900
Description: The Fourth of July "living flag" created by costumed dancers from the Kehl Dance Studio, a school founded in Madison by Frederick W. Kehl in 1898. The Capi...
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Fourth Annual Conference of American Indians

Date: 10 1914
Description: Fourth Annual Conference of American Indians taken in front of Lathrop Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Included are: Mr. (William) Kershaw (M...
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Presenting Wreath on Armistice Day

Date: 11 11 1952
Description: Nena Aylward, left, of the Women's Relief Corps, is placing a wreath on the cenotaph in Armistice Day ceremonies in Capitol Park. Assisting is Clarence R. ...
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Funeral of Robert M. La Follette Jr.

Date: 02 27 1953
Description: Robert M. La Follette Jr., funeral at Grace Episcopal Church. The former senator, who committed suicide, was thought to have been depressed. Some thought h...
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Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1874
Description: Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Wisconsin Delegates to Republican National Convention

Date: 06 26 1944
Description: Two Wisconsin delegates to Republican Party National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Secretary of State Fred R. Zimmerman, left, Edwin W. Shear, Hillsboro...
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Governor Oscar Rennebohm Family

Date: 03 15 1947
Description: Mrs. Oscar Rennebohm (Mary) and her daughter, Carol Rennebohm, on the stairway in their Maple Bluff home, 201 Farwell Drive.
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Lakefront Walkway

Date: 1939
Description: Visitors of Milwaukee's sixth annual Midsummer Festival. Men and women walk on the lakefront walkways.
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Governor's Commission on Human Rights

Date: 10 13 1949
Description: Group portrait of the twenty three members of the Governor's Commission on Human Rights standing on the steps of the Capitol Building. First row, left to ...
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Good Will Tour

Date: 11 28 1949
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm (left) inspecting the 21 wheels of Marathon County cheddar cheese and keys to Wisconsin's vacation land on the steps of the Wiscon...
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Lark's Hotel

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Description: Exterior view looking downhill towards Lark's Hotel surrounded by trees. A group of people and a dog are posing on the porch and front stairs. On the secon...
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Senator Wiley, Paul Anka and Senate Page Boys

Date: 09 04 1959
Description: Senator Alexander Wiley posing with singer Paul Anka and senate page boys on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building.
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Daughters of G.A.R.

Date: 1935
Description: A group of women stand on the steps of the Sauk County Courthouse. A banner identifies them as the Department of Wisconsin, National Daughters of the G.A.R...
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Daisy and L.C. Bates with Henry Wallace

Date: 1948
Description: A candid group portrait of well-dressed people featuring Henry Wallace and Daisy Bates. L.C. Bates stands to the left of Daisy.
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United States Army General Hospital Nurses' Recreation House

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Description: Exterior view looking down toward the Nurses' Recreation House at the United States Army General Hospital. A flag on a flagpole is on the roof, and a man i...
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Camp Meeting Grounds

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Description: View of the meeting grounds of Willimantic Camp Meeting Association, established in 1860. Two women walk toward the foreground on Prospect Avenue, a dirt r...
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Lake Chautauqua Auditorium

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Description: Interior of an auditorium at Lake Chautauqua, founded in 1874. The audience observes a group of people on a platform in the center. A flag hangs from the c...
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Members of Company F, 16th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Date: 09 1888
Description: Group portrait of the members of Company F, 16th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and their families, posing on the Wisconsin State Capitol steps during a reu...
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Veterans of Company I, 29th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Date: 1887
Description: Group portrait outdoors of the Veterans of Company I, 29th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry at a Grand Army of the Republic reunion. Center group, standing, fr...

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