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Governor Julius P. Heil Campaigning to Teenagers

Date: 10 1942
Description: Governor Julius P. Heil (1876-1949) speaks to Shawano High School students and others during his gubernatorial re-election campaign. He arrived during the ...
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Dow Chemical Demonstration

Date: 1967
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison students clash with riot police during campus demonstration to protest Dow Chemical involvement in the Vietnam conflict. He...
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Motorcyclist and Crowd

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Description: A motorcyclist drives down the middle of the road, possibly in a race, as a crowd looks on.
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Severson's Service Station Beer Party

Date: 06 10 1936
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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Kilbourn City Railroad Depot

Date: 1875
Description: View towards a train at the Kilbourn City (now known as Wisconsin Dells) railroad depot, with a crowd of people on the platform.
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Harry S. Truman and Adlai Stevenson

Date: 07 1952
Description: The Democratic convention, with Harry S. Truman and Adlai Stevenson standing at a podium.
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Johnnie Tillmon, George Wiley and Ethel Kennedy

Date: 1968
Description: Johnnie Tillmon addressing a Mother's Day March on Washington, ca. 1968 or 1969. George Wiley is sitting directly behind her, on the left. Ethel Kennedy is...
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Berkshire Strike--Pickets with Tear Gas

Date: 1936
Description: Street intersection with a crowd and police. Tear gas is spreading across the road.
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Workers Leaving McCormick Works

Date: 09 20 1928
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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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Date: 1940
Description: Franklin D. Roosevelt making a speech.
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IHC Gas Engine Exhibit

Date: 1911
Description: Exhibit tent featuring International Harvester gasoline engines. One engine is powering a board of light bulbs as men mill around and tend to the exhibit t...
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IHC Gas Engine Exhibit

Date: 1911
Description: Exhibit tent featuring International Harvester's gasoline engines. Men and women are milling around the tent. One woman is sitting in an International Auto...
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Hughes' Air Victory

Date: 07 14 1938
Description: Minutes after finishing their record-breaking flight around the world (in 7 hours and 28 minutes), Howard Hughes and the four aviators who flew with him we...
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Nikita Khrushchev with Reporters

Date: 1959
Description: Elevated view of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev wading through a throng of reporters during a visit to a farm. A Farmall 560 tractor is in the background...
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Crowd in front of New Kroger Store

Date: 10 26 1935
Description: View towards the intersection of State, Johnson and Henry Streets (looking toward Henry Street), 245 State Street.
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Dane County Fair

Date: 08 23 1930
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...
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Ball-Play Dance

Date: 1844
Description: Choctaw Indians performing dance (Plate 22).

"As I have mentioned in former pages that for nearly all their hunts, wars, or games, the events of which th...

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Birthplace of Republican Party

Date: 1929
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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Crowd Watches Demonstration of Radio-Controlled Tractor

Date: 1931
Description: Crowd watching a demonstration of a radio-controlled McCormick-Deering Farmall F-30 tractor at an agricultural exhibition or fair.
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Police Firing on Crowd Near McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 05 03 1886
Description: Photograph of a painting depicting police in a horse-drawn wagon firing into a crowd of striking workers near the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company fact...

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