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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Caption on negative sleeve: "Aldo Leopold and son Luna (standing); Mrs. Leopold and two daughters Nina and Estella (kneeling). 'Shack' in background." The ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the surrender of Black Hawk at Fort Crawford in 1832. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Poster for International Harvester dealerships promoting the collection of scrap metal for use in war production. Features an illustration of a smiling sol... |
| Date: | 05 15 1941 |
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| Description: | Three African American field artillery soldiers crossing a creek on a TD-18 diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and 155 mm gun. The soldiers were from Bat... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Three sportsmen with shotguns and hunting dogs around an International D-15-M station wagon ("woody"). The photograph may have been staged for advertising ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering Farmall H tractor in a fall setting. A hunter, Mr. Vinson E. Gritten, is holding up a dead rabbit for William Foreman and Junior Scott (b... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Hunter shows a dead rabbit to a man on a Farmall H tractor and a boy in a wagon full of pumpkins. The caption reads: "Mr. [William] Foreman is on the tract... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Men, natives of the Solomon Islands, standing on a U.S. Marine Corps truck made by International Harvester. Some of the men are holding rifles. |
| Date: | 04 03 1941 |
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| Description: | Seven members of the Madison Legion Rifle and Pistol Club. |
| Date: | 04 03 1941 |
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| Description: | Paul Haberman, member of the Madison Legion Rifle and Pistol Club, aiming a rifle. The Club is sponsoring the "Little Worlds Rifle and Pistol Championship ... |
| Date: | 06 12 1945 |
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| Description: | Ira Kurth, 3918 Manitou Way, with children Stuart and Kathleen. Stuart is aiming a gun while his father and sister look on. |
| Date: | 11 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Dane County traffic police receiving first aid training. Officer Rodney Burgenske is performing artificial respiration on Lieut. A.C. Pope while Capt. O.F.... |
| Date: | 05 17 1946 |
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| Description: | Eleven members of the Madison Rifle Club posed with rifles in a rifle range. They were Southern Wisconsin Rifle League Champions and a trophy with four med... |
| Date: | 08 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Harold Peterson, a graduate assistant in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shown working on some of the guns in the Wisconsin Historical Soci... |
| Date: | 10 30 1946 |
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| Description: | Horizontal gun rack located on a closet shelf taken for the R.L. Kulzick Advertising Agency, 409 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 03 08 1947 |
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| Description: | Police Officer Robert O'Brien showing guns he carved. |
| Date: | 03 28 1947 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Madison Rifle Club team holding the Dick Falk trophy they recently won in the Falk Rifle Club's small bore tournament in Milwaukee. P... |
| Date: | 05 20 1947 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of five men in hunting clothing, holding rifles. There is a revolver instruction chart on the wall in back of the men. |
| Date: | 08 19 1947 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of five men with rifles and Hearst trophy. |
| Date: | 03 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Tableau of students dressed in costume depicting Nicolet coming to Wisconsin, sponsored by members of the Twentieth Century club and the Parent Teachers As... |
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