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| Date: | 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Harnischfeger workers aren't on strike but they do their bit every week to help those who are. This picture was taken at the end of a regular Wednesday mo... |
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| Description: | A girl sits in a rocking chair as a young woman commands a dog who is dressed in dark clothing to sit. A piano or organ is in the background. |
| Date: | 08 18 1963 |
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| Description: | Old houses in a residential neighborhood with women and children at play. |
| Date: | 05 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Frank Brothers grocery store at 611 University Avenue, display window showing Duff's Waffle Mix. |
| Date: | 11 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Singer Sewing Machine Company store, 325 State Street, and Sherwin Williams Paint and Wallpaper Store, 327-329 State Street, with a billboard on top of the... |
| Date: | 10 28 1937 |
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| Description: | Window display of Ovenex baking tinware at Woolworth's, 1 East Main Street. |
| Date: | 06 26 1933 |
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| Description: | Three lost children are sitting on the running board of a car and eating bananas. Left to right: Bobbie Simpson, 5, Vina Mae Simpson, 4, Harold Ring, 4. Th... |
| Date: | 09 30 1963 |
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| Description: | The "old stone barn" built by the Reeds as early settlers, now used by a member of the city police department as a family residence. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elderly woman in a long skirt sitting on the front steps of a house. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Bertha Gesell feeding a calf from a pan. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around table for coffee with a frame house behind that has a sewing machine on its porch, and a lightning rod on the roof. A framed pi... |
| Date: | 12 02 1962 |
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| Description: | A group of Madison residents, l-r. Mrs. Arthur Freeman, JoAnn Brandt, Scott Freeman, and Mrs. Mary Engler set up their own "refreshment headquarters" on th... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Martin H. Meyer's birthplace. Reproduced from a lead pencil sketch made in 1870. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman is working on the backporch of Ralph Warner's home. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Ralph Warner's backyard and house. |
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| Description: | View of front of the building, which is under the shade of a large tree to the left. There is a spinning wheel on the porch. The building has four doric co... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Sherwood Forest Hotel dining room. Men and women are seated at a table for a meal, and the uniformed waitstaff stand to the left. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A bedroom in the restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, on Shake Rag Street. The house was temporarily covered with siding, but after restoration... |
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| Description: | Northwest corner of Main Street and Water Street. Woman with an infant in a buggy and a boy walking on Main Street in front of stores and M. Weber Restaura... |
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