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Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
Date: | 1972 |
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Description: | A crowd of anti-Vietnam war demonstrators march down Wisconsin Avenue with signs and banners. One banner reads: "Stop the Bombing. Sign the Treaty Now! U.S... |
Date: | 09 13 1984 |
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Description: | People working and shopping at a neighborhood garage sale in the Walker's Square Park area. Several neighborhood groups collaborated to sponsor the annual ... |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Camp Randall Field from the top of Bascom Hall, with University Heights in the background. A crowd is in the stands at the stadium, and a ... |
Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of crowd gathered at a Civilian Defense Rally. Booths are in the background, including a game booth where you can "Deflate The Axis,... |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
Date: | 09 1825 |
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Description: | Treaty at Prairie du Chien, with Fort Crawford seen in the background. This treaty negotiated between Governor William Clark and Governor Lewis Cass and ov... |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | Maypole dancers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Bascom Hill (Main Hill). In the foreground is the Lincoln Monument. In the distance is the Wiscon... |
Date: | 06 10 1936 |
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Description: | View across street of a large group of people posing in front of Severson's Phillips 66 Service Station, 2089 Atwood Avenue, during a summer evening beer p... |
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Description: | An unidentified man dancing for a group of onlookers in Black River Falls during the 1908 Homecoming Celebration. He is wearing a Sioux-style eagle feather... |
Date: | 05 1916 |
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Description: | A view looking down on the Maypole Dance at the May Fete on Bascom Hill, showing dancers around four different Maypoles. In the foreground is the Lincoln M... |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | People attending a wedding reception, posing outdoors. They are standing in front of a modern house that has a log cabin attached to the back. In the backg... |
Date: | 10 12 1934 |
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Description: | Automobile and truck crash at the corner of Milton and West Washington Avenue in the Greenbush neighborhood. Houses in the 600 block of Milton Street are i... |
Date: | 12 04 1970 |
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Description: | Elevated view of college teachers, non-tenured, at UW-Parkside protesting the decision to not renew their contracts. |
Date: | 11 1909 |
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Description: | Photographic postcard of funeral and tent/morgue from the Cherry Mine disaster. Caption reads: "#37 Cherry Mine Horror Showing Morgue Dunham Photo Princeto... |
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Description: | Kilbourn railroad station looking north. A crowd of people are standing on the platform. Carriages are parked behind the station building. |
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Description: | A crowd is standing in front of a tent advertised as the "Temple of Music." |
Date: | 03 31 1963 |
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Description: | A model walks down the runway during an Easter dress fashion show. Ticket sales benefitted the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee community center. |
Date: | 09 20 1928 |
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Description: | Stream of factory workers leaving International Harvester's McCormick Works. A sign along the front of the factory reads: "'Quality is the Foundation of ou... |
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