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Post Mistresss at Post Office

Date: 1917
Description: Elizabeth Lathrop, Post Mistress, stands with a dog and other people in front of the Post Office. There is a shoreline on the left.
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Swearing Allegiance

Date: 05 02 1963
Description: During part of a ceremony, citizens raise their right hands and swear allegiance to the United States in the federal building to receive citizenship certif...
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Tea at the Governor's Residence

Date: 10 01 1944
Description: Officers of the Wisconsin Business and Professional Women's Club attending a tea at the Governor's Residence, 130 E. Gilman Street. Left to right around th...
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Marion Park Club House

Date: 1906
Description: The land and house were donated to the village. The club house is still in use (1964) as a publicaly owned building for recreation and meetings. Image show...
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American Library Association Group Portrait

Date: 07 08 1901
Description: Group portrait of members of the American Library Association, Madison, Wisconsin. East front of Wisconsin State Historical Library Building. Charles A. Cu...
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Governor Goodland at the Historical Society

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Description: Clifford L. Lord, director of the State Historical Society (on the right), seated with Governor Walter Goodland and Mrs. Goodland at an event at the Wiscon...
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State Assembly Audience

Date: 1947
Description: Audience at a session of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
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Senator and Mrs. McCarthy

Date: 10 12 1953
Description: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and his new bride, the former Jean Kerr, arrive at the federal building in New York City where a hearing concerning security ris...
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Citizens at East Side Hearing

Date: 1949
Description: Thirty citizens, men dressed in suits, two women wearing hats, sit in attendance at a city council hearing proposing an east side emergency hospital.
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Crowd Inspecting Tractors and Engines at the "100 Years in Chicago" Celebration

Date: 1947
Description: Elevated view of men and women inspecting tractors and engines on display at International Harvester's "100 Years in Chicago" celebration. The exhibition w...
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Henry Wallace in front of Community Center

Date: 06 17 1939
Description: Henry Wallace, on right, talking to two men in front of the community center building. Henry Wallace, then the United States Secretary of Agriculture, visi...
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Senator Wiley and World's Largest Cheese

Date: 02 10 1956
Description: Senator Wiley and Mrs. John Nance Garner, wife of the Vice President, stand on either side of a woman holding a basket and sitting on the world's largest c...
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Coliseum for the Grand National Peace Jubilee

Date: 1869
Description: A lithograph of the Coliseum for the Grand National Peace Jubilee in Boston, Massachusetts on June 15-19.
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World's Columbian Exposition

Date: 1893
Description: A view of the World's Columbian Exposition mounted on a cardboard album page, looking east from the Transportation Building. On the right are the Mines Bui...
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Unveiling Community Leader Tablet

Date: 1925
Description: A group of men, women and children gathers as a plaque is unveiled on a brick building. Many of the women are wearing cloche hats and drop waist dresses. T...
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Harness Racing at a Wisconsin Fair

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Description: View from the inner track of harness racing at a local fair. The horses and their drivers can be seen racing around a tree-lined curve in the track and pas...
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Wisconsin Building

Date: 1893
Description: The Wisconsin Building at the Chicago World's Fair (Columbian Exposition).
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Flag Raising in Rudolph

Date: 09 1995
Description: Local members of the VFW raise a new flag in front of the Rudolph Municipal Building. The flag, which had flown over the U.S. Capitol, was presented by Con...
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Girl Scouts Mailing Photographs on Labor Day

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Description: Girl Scouts of Washington, D.C. celebrate Labor Day by mailing out photographs of the uniform pledge cards of the U.S. Food Administration.
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Fire Truck Initiation

Date: 06 1996
Description: "When Theresa firemen purchased a new truck, as is customary, other fire departments came to initiate the new truck."

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