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Shorewood Hills Classroom

Date: 06 1947
Description: Teacher and three students in a classroom at Shorewood Hills School looking at a Weston Photonic Foot-candle Meter that measures light in the room.
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Street Lighting

Date: 1934
Description: View down road of overhead lighting equipment of the T.M.E.R. and L. Company, which, at the time had a proposal to be replaced by more modern lighting. Th...
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Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Robert Muchlenbruch demonstrates a new ironer to Eleanor Stoops and her daughter Barbie at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High Schoo...
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Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Barbara Jean Stoops, age 2, feeding her baby doll a bottle before trying out the new vacuum cleaner model at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in t...
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Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Mrs. Robert C. Pittenger and son, Mike, examine a new electric dishwasher at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High School gymnasium.
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Crowd in Street of Black River Falls

Date: 1908
Description: Tourists look on as a group of Ho-Chunk dressed in traditional regalia are walking down the street during the Homecoming Celebration.
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Ho-Chunk Woman and Three Children in Town

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Description: Ho-Chunk woman, and three Ho-Chunk children wearing winter clothes, standing on a board sidewalk in town, probably Black River Falls. Two of the children a...
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Customers in General Store

Date: 1939
Description: Two women and a girl stand near a counter inside a general store as a man shows them a product. A cat and a dog sleep on the floor in the background, and a...
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Woman and Child with Electric Washer

Date: 1931
Description: A woman and a girl are using an electric washing machine to clean clothing or bedsheets in a basement. The machine is powered by a DELCO-Light Plant system...
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Mary and Katie Temp

Date: 11 24 2011
Description: Mary (Kate) Marcou Temp is sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper while her daughter Kate Temp is kneeling on the floor viewing her electronic reader on T...
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Telecamera Postcard

Date: 09 06 1948
Description: A postcard advertising the invention of the telecamera by William Pitt Fessenden in 1941 in Phlox, Wisconsin.
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Parade Float

Date: 10 20 1915
Description: View of a group of mostly women riding on a horse-drawn parade float. The letters "OW" and "WC" are written with flowers on the horse blankets. Several wom...
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Playing Flinch

Date: 02 08 1912
Description: Group of people playing the card game called Flinch. There is an electric lamp in the background. Caption reads: "Cousin Carolyn, foster mother during abse...

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