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| Date: | 09 18 1984 |
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| Description: | Jennie Youn Haeng Seider, 4, of Milwaukee, used her father Jeffrey Seider's back to display her new certificate of naturalization. |
| Date: | 06 12 1931 |
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| Description: | The letterhead stationery of a Racine economic development committee reads: "Air City, Where the Air-Minded Live," The design shows airplanes and even a... |
| Date: | 08 17 1923 |
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| Description: | "No flight, no pay." The informal contract between J.A. Smith of Neenah and Roy Larson of Larsen, Wisconsin. Roy Larson established a rural airport in Lar... |
| Date: | 04 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Margaret Smith, secretary of the Madison and Wisconsin Foundation, surveys a few of the letters received from servicemen who trained in Madison and plan to... |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Governor Gaylord Nelson signing the bill which created Menominee County as the state's 72nd county. The new county consisted of those portions of Shawano a... |
| Date: | 05 15 1947 |
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| Description: | Building contractor John H. Findorff on his 80th birthday. |
| Date: | 08 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Unidentified man signing the marriage document for the Shirley Steinhauer and William Sundquist wedding. |
| Date: | 12 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Mailman delivering Christmas letters and packages to a man at NBC - WIBA radio station. |
| Date: | 01 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Officers and speakers attending the annual dinner meeting of the Wisconsin Council of Churches: front row, Dr. Hermann Morse, administrator of the Presbyte... |
| Date: | 06 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Officers of the East Side Womens' Club are, left to right: Mrs. Alfred (Bessie) Olson, 2029 Jenifer Street, treasurer; Miss Esther Weddig, 1702 Yahara Plac... |
| Date: | 01 03 1943 |
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| Description: | Corporal Frank Abrashinsky of Sheboygan, somewhere in New Guinea, opening his Red Cross Christmas package. |
| Date: | 09 25 1948 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm signing a proclamation for Newspaperboy Day. Observing the signing ceremony are four newspaper boys. From left to right are: Ken ... |
| Date: | 12 16 1926 |
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| Description: | Portion of the dissolution letter regarding the Badger Brass Manufacturing Company. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Letter from Martha MacMillan of Farmington, Michigan to the group Women for a Peaceful Christmas written on stationery bearing an Earth Day logo. |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | Angry letter written to Women for a Peaceful Christmas in opposition to their Christmas shopping boycott, signed "A small business owner." |
| Date: | 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Letter from Mrs. F.L. "Dixie" Larkin of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to The Wisconsin Conservation Department regarding the use of DDT to control Dutch Elm Diseas... |
| Date: | 06 30 1957 |
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| Description: | Letter from Marie Thompson of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, President of the Animal Protective League to John Beale, Chief Forester at the Wisconsin Conservation D... |
| Date: | 07 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Letter from Harold Kruse, President of Citizens Natural Resources Association of Wisconsin, to L.P. Voigt of the Wisconsin Conservation Department regardin... |
| Date: | 06 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Dane County marriage license clerk Mercedes Dufour, (left), issues a license to Lucille A. Roth and Amos M. Skogen for their leap year wedding at the East ... |
| Date: | 11 05 1963 |
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| Description: | A typed letter written to Myles Horton of Highlander Folk School from Martin Luther King, Jr., who was President of the Southern Christian Leadership Confe... |
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