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State Street at the Capitol Square

Date: 1960
Description: The 100 block of State Street showing capitol steps, pedestrians crossing in front of cars, and the storefronts for Dykeman's Tempting Food and Olson's clo...
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Bennett Family, House and Auto

Date: 1901
Description: The H.H. Bennett House, Kilbourn, with members of the family posing in front of the house and in a 1901 Winton automobile. Ashley Bennett, the son of the f...
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Harold McCormick Family Portrait at Walnut Grove, Virginia

Date: 1922
Description: Harold F. McCormick family, farm laborers, and various animals on the Walnut Grove estate at Raphine, Virginia. Harold McCormick was the son of Cyrus Hall ...
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Farmers with Tractor in front of Service Station

Date: 07 06 1920
Description: Farmer L.L. Harvey (right) and his son Chester posing with a Titan 10-20 tractor in front of a rural service station.
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Short Wave Communication

Date: 01 26 1956
Description: Sitting in a car, a woman and her daughter are talking to another daughter who is at Albrook Air Force Base in the Canal Zone.
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Edward O'Connell & Family

Date: 07 27 1934
Description: Edward O'Connell (General Pershing's chauffeur), and wife standing beside an automobile, with two children sitting on the automobile's running board and lo...
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Lake Delton Airport Owner, Manager and Son

Date: 04 09 1931
Description: Group portrait of three men: the Lake Delton airport owner, likely William J. Newman (center), manager and son standing in front of the prop of an airplane...
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Taking a Break at the Side of the Road

Date: 1917
Description: Carl Peterson and his family, take a rest while driving their car on a rural dirt road. His son's name is Laurie and the girl is Muriel Peterson Jacobs. Of...
Book or Pamphlet

International C-line Travelall Station Wagon

Date: 1961
Description: Front cover, featuring color illustration, of an advertising brochure for International C-line Travelall station wagons showing a family checking out of a ...
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Family and Car

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Description: A car (possible a Model T) parked in the grass with a family sitting inside. There are other people with cars in the background under trees, and people sit...
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Kohler's Sons

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Description: Informal portrait of two sons of Walter J. Kohler, Sr., taken during a gubernatorial campaign during the 1920s: John Michael Kohler (left) and Walter J. Ko...
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Bennett Family and House

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Description: The family of H.H. (Henry Hamilton) Bennett, posing formally in and around a car parked in front of their house.
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Family Camping along the Road

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Description: Camping scene along an unidentified Wisconsin road. Although part of the Wisconsin Good Roads collection of Melvin Diemer, this photograph was probably tak...
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Katz Family

Date: 1955
Description: Group portrait of the Katz family (from left): Ruthie, Rosa, Mark, and Arthur.
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Madison Snowstorm

Date: 03 02 1948
Description: A winter scene of the Capitol Square during the year's record snowstorm. Pictured are Mrs. Francis (Mayme) Harrison, 304 West Main Street, with her two ch...
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Yahara River Parkway and Lloyd Jones Family Car

Date: 1918
Description: The Richard Lloyd Jones family dog lies in front of the car parked along the Yahara River Parkway in Tenney Park. Four family members sit in the car. Ther...
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Yahara River Parkway and Lloyd Jones Family Car

Date: 1918
Description: Dick Lloyd Jones stands on the running board of the family car parked along the Yahara River Parkway in Tenney Park. Blig, the family's Belgian Shepherd d...
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Eagle Regiment Car

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Description: Dr. James A Jackson, Sr., who was a hospital steward for the 8th Wisconsin Regiment during the Civil War, riding in an open car during a GAR parade in Madi...
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Family on Sidewalk

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Description: A group of fourteen people dressed for cold weather and wearing hats and scarves are standing on a sidewalk in front of a picket fence. A car is parked on ...
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Group Portrait with Automobile

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Description: A group portrait taken next to an automobile, consisting of a woman (probably Alma Reinhardt Taylor) with her hand on the car, one boy (probably Fred Taylo...

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