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Scene at Mine Disaster

Date: 11 13 1909
Description: Photographic postcard of an elevated view of people walking to the mine (in the distance) after a disaster. Caption reads: "Scene at Mine Disaster, Cherry,...
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Wisconsin's First Aviation Fatality

Date: 09 05 1913
Description: Wisconsin's first air fatality was P.C. Davis, an exhibition pilot from Chicago, who died as a result of injuries sustained during an aerial performance in...
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1948
Description: A crowd surrounds a 10-foot mechanical mannequin of Alice in Dairyland at an Alice display for the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The Alice could raise h...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Showing Off the Corn

Date: 1908
Description: Photomontage of a man, wearing a bow tie and straw boater hat, sitting on top of a giant ear of corn. A crowd of onlookers gather around the man, suggestin...
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Busy Road near Blanchardville

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Description: Elevated photographic postcard view of a busy road near Blanchardville. Men are driving a wagon hitched to eight horses, and people are standing in the roa...
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Stock Fair Day

Date: 06 19 1916
Description: Text on front reads: "Marrow [sic] St., on Stock Fair Day, Seymour, Wis." Elevated view looking West on Morrow Street, the name is misspelled on the front...
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Stock Fair Day

Date: 07 27 1914
Description: Text on front reads: "Stock Fair Day, Stevens Point, Wis." Elevated view of eople, horse-drawn sleds, piles of hay and wood fill the square for Stock Fair ...

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