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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Union House Tavern, known as Schulkamp's Corner Saloon, 2601 East Washington Avenue at Milwaukee Street. A group of men are standing on the porch holdi... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the photographer, Carl A. Peterson, taking a moment to light his pipe while fishing from a boat near the family home. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Twenty-eight people and one dog are posed in the yard of a wood frame house. A lap dog is sitting on a chair balanced on top of a fence post. A woman at th... |
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| Description: | Several families peer into an animal environment at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo). Three small children stand on top of the stone wall and look over... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves. |
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| Description: | An African American family standing on the porch of their home, behind a wooden picket fence. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | James Dombrowski (center), head of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW), leaving the Birmingham jail with Doris Senk and the Rev. C. Herbert Ol... |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of two seated men, one on a chair and the other on a low stone wall, smoking cigars. They are wearing hats and paint-splattered clothes i... |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of two young men who wear large hats, suit jackets, and neckties,. They are smoking cigars in front of a low stone wall and painted backd... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of three young Ho-Chunk men wearing suit jackets, trousers, and neckties in front of a painted backdrop. Two are wearing hats a... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd and observation tower at motorcycle races at the Dane County Fairgrounds. Men on raised platform are judging the races. |
| Date: | 04 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Prisoners, most wearing striped uniforms, on both sides of a barbed wire fence cheering at their liberation from the concentration camp by the United State... |
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| Description: | Couple posing outside. Harold Gauer's brother Norman with his "exotic oriental" dance wife, Wong Lee. |
| Date: | 05 04 1950 |
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| Description: | Ed Shey, left, and Peter "Pete" Strand are pictured at their 271-acre hobby "ranch" near Deansville where they are experimenting with raising buffalo, rare... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers from Company A, 3rd Regiment, take a break to drink inside the walls of Camp Harvey. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Monument to John Brown and the men killed during the Battle of Osawatomie. Those slain in the battle are buried underneath the monument. Chain link fence s... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Man with tethered calf and donkey near a farm building. In the background are fences and other livestock. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Three young children standing in a backyard in very poor condition, including the lack of a lawn, exposed trash piles, and other litter. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Man driving a Farmall Regular tractor with an attached cultivator to work in a field at an International Harvester demonstration farm. A fence and haystack... |
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