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Syttende Mai

Date: 1875
Description: Large group at Syttende Mai celebration. Group posing with what may be the national and merchant flag of Norway flag. A number of people are holding croque...
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Fishing On Breakwater

Date: 1910
Description: Long row of men in suits and hats fishing on the breakwater.
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Eddie Mathews, Jr. at the Plate

Date: 09 07 1958
Description: Three-year-old Edwin Lee Mathews, Jr., dressed in a "Milwaukee Braves" uniform, takes a swing at a baseball. He is the son of Braves' Hall of Fame third ba...
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Children Sitting on Rocks at the Jaws

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Description: Jaws, from Stone Pile. Two children wearing straw hats are sitting on rocks in the foreground. A canoe is pulled up on a sandy bank in the background.
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Polo Game

Date: 07 24 1957
Description: Elevated view of a polo game in action.
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Bowling

Date: 02 13 1969
Description: The Wonder Bread team, an all-female bowling team getting ready to compete.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom...
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Three Hunters

Date: 11 19 1934
Description: Three hunters posing with shotguns and their bounty of a fox, squirrels and rabbits. The man on the right may be UW-Madison chef Carson Gulley.
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East High Football Players

Date: 09 06 1934
Description: Two East High football players. 4823B-1 (Unknown). 4823B-2 (Unknown).
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East High School Coach with Players

Date: 09 06 1934
Description: East High School football coach, A.J. "Hunk" Barrett conversing with two of his football players on the practice field.
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World's Fair Beauties

Date: 08 10 1934
Description: Three "most beautiful employees" of the Chicago World's Fair on a publicity tour: Patricia Marquan, Kay Griffith and Dorothy Le Fold.
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Mrs. Karl Luedtke

Date: 07 27 1934
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Karl Luetke, Green Lake, Wisconsin, golf finalist for Women's State Golf Championship.
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Mrs. Karl Luetke

Date: 07 27 1934
Description: Mrs. Karl Luetke, Green Lake, Wisconsin, swinging a golf club, finalist for Women's State Golf Championship.
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Mrs. Karl Leutke

Date: 07 27 1934
Description: Outdoor portrait of Mrs Karl Luetke, Green Lake, Wisconsin, finalist in Women's State Golf Championship.
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Mrs. Leutke & Mary Callahan

Date: 07 27 1934
Description: Marian Callahan, new women's state champion golfer and Mrs. Karl Luetke, former champion at Nakoma Country Club. It became Nakoma Golf Club in 1944.
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Clarence W. "Doc" Spears

Date: 09 15 1932
Description: Portrait of Clarence W. "Doc" Spears, University of Wisconsin football coach, standing on the football field.
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Mrs. Lee Statz, Golfer

Date: 06 15 1931
Description: Mrs. Lee Statz, golfer, at Nakoma golf course.
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Tubing Down Mule Hill

Date: 01 02 1988
Description: Bundled-up boys ride their tubes down an icy slope in Mee-Kwon Park.
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Circus Canvasman at Work

Date: 07 14 1897
Description: James Whalen, boss canvasman with the Ringling Brothers circus, at work in a van.
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Circus Performers with Mule

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Description: A male circus performer stands lengthwise on the back of a mule, while a female circus performer stands on the ground next to them.

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