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Students Home for the Holidays

Date: 12 26 1945
Description: Three Madison girls, students at Kemper Hall in Kenosha, visiting in Madison during their Christmas holiday. Left to right are: Margot Schmidt, daughter of...
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Wisconsin State Journal Employees

Date: 12 1947
Description: Two young paper carriers for the Wisconsin State Journal with their news bags.
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Hoyt Park Toboggan Slide

Date: 12 23 1947
Description: Three teenagers posing on the steps of the toboggan slide at Hoyt Park. Ascending the steps are Al Gay, Mary Homann, and Ruth Ann Gay. Two young boys are s...
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Shingle Mill Near Mellen

Date: 1895
Description: Exterior view of the shingle mill near Mellen, with five men, probably employees, posing on and near the outdoor stairway of a building. From bottom to top...
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Salting Ice-Covered Steps

Date: 03 11 1926
Description: A man uses salt from a metal pail to cover ice-covered steps to the farmhouse at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
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Four Boys in Costumes

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Description: Four boys dressed in Indian costumes sit in a row on the concrete steps to a large porch of a house. A woman wearing an apron is standing on the porch on t...
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Mr. Kincaid on Stairs

Date: 02 1924
Description: The caretaker, carrying a lantern, poses on stairs leading up from the log outhouse at the Hotz Europe Lake compound. There is hoar frost on the trees and ...
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Students Outside the Historymobile II

Date: 03 22 1971
Description: Students and teachers lined up outside Historymobile II, probably parked at Jefferson Sr. High School. The featured exhibit was People and Pollution. 4th a...
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Russian Barn

Date: 1918
Description: A Russian man is standing with his horse in front of a large barn. The barn has an arched balcony above the double doors. Around the barn half-buried in th...
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Albert Basserman, Actor

Date: 1940
Description: Albert Basserman is seen on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." He is walking up a flight of stairs in the rain holding an umbrella. A crowd of pe...
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Scene Still for "Foreign Correspondent"

Date: 1940
Description: Elevated scene still for the film "Foreign Correspondent." Pedestrians are walking with umbrellas down the sidewalk in the rain. On the street people are r...
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G.A. Parsons and Child

Date: 
Description: European American man standing next to a homemade sleigh sitting on the snow at the base of front steps. Sitting in the sleigh is a small European American...
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Blackhawk Ski Club Jumping Tournament

Date: 02 03 1956
Description: Moritz Schorr spreads cinders on the slippery steps of the ski jump scaffold during the Blackhawk Ski Club's annual jumping tournament at their Tomahawk Ri...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 102

Date: 
Description: He was taught restraint and patriotic fiction,
letting automation by
to wipe the chimneys clean of issues
and make horizons in the sky
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Ski Lift

Date: 
Description: View looking up towards a man and a woman just getting off the ski lift at Mt. Telemark Resort. An emergency telephone booth sign is on the booth next to t...
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Zor Shrine Tour of Hawaii

Date: 04 05 1958
Description: Members of the Madison Zor Shrine group boarding their plane at the Madison airport for their tour of Hawaii.
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Snow Blower in Front of Capitol Building

Date: 02 11 1959
Description: "What All Hope Snow Will Do: Blow" is the caption. As much snow on the ground as there was at anytime during the past two winters. A man is pushing the sno...
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Clinton DeWitt in Navy Uniform

Date: 1918
Description: Dressed in his U.S. Navy uniform, Clinton DeWitt is posing for a portrait in front of a house. Caption reads: "Clinton DeWitt."
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Pete Christensen: Forester at Trout Lake

Date: 
Description: Portrait of a man standing on snowy steps in front of the door of a building. He is resting one elbow on the post of a railing.
Postcard

North Primary School

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "North Primary School." A two-story clapboard schoolhouse with a basement has students gathered on the steps to the entrance. The scho...

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