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| Date: | 09 1825 |
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| Description: | Treaty at Prairie du Chien, with Fort Crawford seen in the background. This treaty negotiated between Governor William Clark and Governor Lewis Cass and ov... |
| Date: | 12 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Herman Kruse (left) and Ed Papke (right) on the occasion of Papke's retirement. Papke was a founding member of Local 7, Amalgamated Lithographers of Americ... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk men and women sitting and standing around a large medicine drum in an area portioned off by canvas barriers in front of a lodge. Identified as the... |
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| Description: | An unidentified man dancing for a group of onlookers in Black River Falls during the 1908 Homecoming Celebration. He is wearing a Sioux-style eagle feather... |
| Date: | 02 1892 |
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| Description: | Engraving of a fur trader standing in the middle of a circle of seated Indians in their council tepee. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Holy card with watercolor of a wreath of white flowers encircling an open book resting on a cross and crown of thorns. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Bison-Dance of the Mandan Indians in front of their medicine lodge in Mih-Tutta-Hangkush. |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk flute ceremony or prayer for rain. Four Ho-Chunk kneel in a square. A flute player and a man with a rattle stand behind on a low, round stone wall... |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk Eagle Dance. Two dancers crouch in front of two men with drums. Ho-Chunk men and women sit on a bench at right. Tepee in back. |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk flute ceremony or prayer for rain. Four men kneel in a square next to poles bearing feather headdresses. A flute player and a man with a rattle st... |
| Date: | 03 10 1955 |
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| Description: | Re-dedication of St. Raphael's Cathedral. Elevated view of people sitting in pews for a service. Newspaper caption reads: "Resplendent St. Raphael Cathedra... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for harvesting machinery made by the Plano Manufacturing Company. Features a color illustration of a woman on a stage crown... |
| Date: | 03 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Close-up group portrait of Abe and Sarah Mintz's family gathered around the dining room table for Passover supper, 336 West Wilson Street. |
| Date: | 03 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Abe and Sarah Mintz's family gathered around the dining room table for Passover supper, 336 West Wilson Street. |
| Date: | 06 20 1942 |
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| Description: | Altar of Blessed Sacrament Church, 2119 Rowley Avenue where Father Paul N. Flad is celebrating his first Mass. |
| Date: | 05 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Holy Communion class, Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 140 West Johnson Street. |
| Date: | 06 14 1935 |
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| Description: | At ceremonies held in observance of National Housing Day, Mayor James R. Law and members of the Madison Building Industries Committee are shown breaking gr... |
| Date: | 04 28 1935 |
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| Description: | First Methodist Church, 203 Wisconsin Avenue. Easter pageant "At Dawning," with a large group of actors in costume in a scene on "stage" in the chancel. |
| Date: | 06 20 1931 |
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| Description: | Nine members of the junior and senior class at the University of Wisconsin are sitting in a semi-circle dressed as Native Americans. They are smoking the p... |
| Date: | 04 25 1930 |
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| Description: | Men and women are seated in a "Mock Trial" as part of the I.O.O.F. 111th anniversary program at the Independent Order of Odd Fellows hall. The hall is deco... |
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