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Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
Date: | 04 1893 |
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Description: | Launching Captain Abe McDougall's whaleback boat, "Christopher Columbus", from the American Steel Barge Company dock. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Belle Case La Follette, wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing a group of farmers during a tour on the Chautauqua circuit during which she frequent... |
Date: | 1897 |
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Description: | Robert M. La Follette, Sr., with his fist in the air, speaking from the back of a wagon. He is wearing a hat and a suit without the coat. It was in part du... |
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: | 1928 |
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Description: | View from stands of crowd gathered for the arrival of Charles Lindbergh and his famed airplane the "Spirit of St. Louis". |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Twelve piece brass band playing at a railroad station during the "Union Pacific Preparedness Special Campaign." |
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Description: | Elevated view of the St. Paul Ice Carnival; royal family equipages in street parade with crowd lining street. There is a real estate agency and a laundry o... |
Date: | 06 27 1912 |
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Description: | Suffragist Mrs. Katherine McCullough speaking to a gathering in front of the store and post office run by Mrs. W. Bunda in Sister Bay. |
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... |
Date: | 10 28 1916 |
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Description: | Woodrow Wilson campaigning for his second term as president. He is wearing a leather finger protector due to injury from too many handshakes that accompani... |
Date: | 09 12 1908 |
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Description: | Demonstration of the Wright Flyer. |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | The groundbreaking ceremony for the new airport hangar at Wausau. Governor Fred R. Zimmerman, who can be seen on the right, (elevated above the crowd and w... |
Date: | 1894 |
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Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company featuring a chromolithograph of Worlds Fair foreign commissioners observing Deering grain bin... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for harvesting machinery made by the Plano Manufacturing Company. Features a color illustration of a woman on a stage crown... |
Date: | 10 12 1984 |
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Description: | Men wearing Ronald Reagan masks and dunce caps make their way through a crowd. |
Date: | 05 19 1934 |
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Description: | Crowd of delegates and guests at the Progressive Convention in the armory, held to launch a new Progressive Party. |
Date: | 08 23 1930 |
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Description: | People in grandstand are overlooking the track from the right. There is a man standing in the center of the track making announcement over a public address... |
Date: | 08 17 1963 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Grand Champion soap box coaster crossing the finish line. |
Date: | 1929 |
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Description: | 75th anniversary celebration of the birth of the Republican Party at Ripon. Governor Walter J. Kohler, Sr., stands on the podium in front of the Little Whi... |
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