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| Date: | 04 21 1957 |
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| Description: | An industrious family cleans their motorboat which is parked in the driveway. |
| Date: | 07 06 1932 |
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| Description: | Blackhawk Country Club dress up day for women titled "Children's Day." Women are dressed in children's costumes and are eating ice cream cones. |
| Date: | 05 16 1928 |
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| Description: | Woman washing clothes with a washing machine powered by a a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 HP engine. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around a table with dishes on top. To the right is a man sitting and holding a violin, and to his right a boy is holding a gun. The ho... |
| Date: | 07 18 1876 |
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| Description: | "Rev. N. Brandt and family, Decorah, Iowa" from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." Nils Olsen Brandt was born in Valdres Norway in 1824 and die... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | "The Grand Regatta, at Devil's Lake, June 21st & 22nd, 1877." A crowd sits on the ground about to commence lunch at Devil's Lake. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Eight people posing in front of a one-story clapboard house holding possessions. The man on the far left is holding a gun and wears a ammunition belt aroun... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | French Second Empire style, C. Loftus Martin House, 327 Milton Ave., built ca. 1868. Three children stand in yard. Richard Lloyd Jones was born in Janesvil... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of University of Wisconsin-Madison student housing project at Monroe Street. There was housing at Monroe Street and Randall Avenue for marrie... |
| Date: | 06 1913 |
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| Description: | Group of International Harvester Agricultural Extension speakers seated on a lawn for supper. Original caption reads: "This picture shows part of the Alfal... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Exeter Inn with guests dining outdoors under trees. Built in 1932, the hotel's Georgian facade features a doorway and an awning under which tab... |
| Date: | 12 1928 |
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| Description: | Cameramen staging a shot of a man and woman on a Farmall Regular tractor in front of farmhouse at an International Harvester demonstration farm in Gull Lak... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting outdoors at a spinning wheel, turning a large pile of wool in the foreground into yarn. |
| Date: | 04 17 2009 |
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| Description: | "Bill and Stel's on Highway E in Eureka. A birthday party was going on for 'Barbara,' and cars passing by were asked to honk their horns." |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Young girl identified as Jewel Keller using a water pump outside a farm house to cool freshly canned corn. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two small boys at Point Henry Resort at Spider Lake are dressed in short pants and are feeding a fawn from a bottle. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Margery Bish (left) and another little girl, unidentified, sit at a low outdoor table set with a tea service. There is a china doll propped under the table... |
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| Description: | An outdoor group portrait of a birthday party. A cake with many candles and a lace tablecloth sits on a table in front. Most of the party are dressed up. N... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View of a woman wearing a plaid dress standing outdoors hanging up clean laundry, specifically light-colored shirts and towels, on the clothesline. |
| Date: | 08 1990 |
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| Description: | Grilling burgers and corn on the cob, all washed down with beer... a typical menu for a Wisconsin political fundraiser. This event was for State Senator Ru... |
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