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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: | 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: | 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: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman is working on the backporch of Ralph Warner's home. |
| 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: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Alice and Eleanor Brown with their nurse in front of 121 East Gilman Street. The three houses in the photo are 125 East Gilman, 133 East Gilman and 139 Ea... |
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| Description: | Baby in buggy on the west side of South First Street. Image shows the intersection of First and Main Streets. Storefronts identified, from left to right, ... |
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| Description: | Two women, man, and child having tea in a parlor. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Woman putting on a hat in front of a dressing table mirror. |
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| Description: | A barefoot child is sitting on the sidewalk. Houses and buildings are in the background, and laundry is hanging out to dry. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A man in a suit waits for a hot dog that a man is preparing. Metal steps painted blue rise behind the customer on the left. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A construction worker sits on a wooden beam near a fence and eats his lunch. Behind him is the construction site with debris. |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Two-story home with sloping roof. One man is whipping a team of eight cattle while another man drives the plow behind them. To the left stands a man near a... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery... |
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