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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: | 1879 |
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Description: | Norwegian Sunday School Picnic at Mendota steamboat landing. Small lake steamer "Mendota" could reach speeds of up to 18 mph. The barge "Uncle Sam" was 75f... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | A parade turning the corner from Wisconsin Avenue on to the Capitol Square. A horse-drawn wagon in the foreground carries a May Pole and dancers from the K... |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | The landing of the "Spirit of St. Louis," carrying Charles Lindbergh. |
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: | 1901 |
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Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S., taken near Wabasha. Caption reads: "Steamer J.S. Wabasha, Minn." |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | The sternwheel excursion, Thistle, by a landing. Passengers wait on shore. Previously named J.H. Crawford. The Thistle ran between Oshkosh and Omro, WI vi... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Side view of the sternwheel excursion, Thistle with her decks full of passengers. Previously named J.H. Crawford. The Thistle ran betw... |
Date: | 06 1868 |
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Description: | G.F. Bailey bandwagon, with band, and central elevated figure of Mazeppa legend on Broadway in Kilbourn City. Hitch is an Asiatic elephant led by paired dr... |
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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: | Steamboat Alexander Mitchell and edge of second unidentified steamboat at shore, with passengers posed standing on the lower deck and sitting on the... |
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Description: | Crowd of passengers posing on the "New Dell Queen" steamboat. Bridge in background. |
Date: | 08 08 1914 |
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Description: | View from behind fence of large crowd of people getting off railroad cars. Men, women and children are standing on or near a dirt road near a railroad cros... |
Date: | 08 1919 |
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Description: | View down long line of workers from the United States Postal Service demonstrating for an increase in salary to meet war-time cost of living increases. |
Date: | 07 19 1931 |
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Description: | The crowd at a free air show sponsored by the recently organized Waukesha Aviation Club in order to dedicate their new airport. In actuality, the club's ai... |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | A Standard plane on the golf course of the Waukesha Moor Baths Hotel surrounded by curious onlookers. This landing was representative of the problems encou... |
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: | 07 04 1876 |
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Description: | Stereograph of view of procession, military company and citizens at Great Centennial Day at the Capitol Square. Scene at Main and Carroll Streets showing t... |
Date: | 10 14 1910 |
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Description: | Claude Graham-White, winner of the Gordon Bennett Race and several other important races in 1910, flying a Farman plane over Washington, D.C. Graham-White ... |
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