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Photograph

Horseback Riding Meet

Date: 10 06 1963
Description: Men and women with horse trailers gather beneath Castle Rock. The group gathered there for a western-style horseback riding meet.
Photograph

Motion Picture Set

Date: 10 03 1961
Description: View of a downtown street, altered by 20th Century Fox motion picture studio for scenes in the movie "Young Man." For filming, local people dressed the par...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 33-46

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Description: The Little Bluebirds — has anyone expressed it better
than Judy Garland singing
. . . why, oh why, can't I
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 47-54

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Description: The fast movement was a nervous reach for something west.
But along the way there was no hurry. Wait for noontime, turned round to a movement eastward,<...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 62-69

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Description: The arrangements

Somebody takes care of it:
planning the details, announcements,
transportation,
setting the tone,
fitting all the likel...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 85-90

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Description: 200 years this tree grew here and so did I
We were raised here and brought up young ones
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 139-147

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Description: Around the corner: the geography of childhood
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 148-153

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Description: To some who want to leave
it would be dull
But to us who want to stay
the moment is surprising:
never lax
only turning out of nowhere lastin...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 166-177

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Description: There are Gothic ways the light comes drifting through a forest
clothes fit, things pad themselves
stone rests on stone and legends long persist,
...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 207-215

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Description: The log who was made King of Logs is here entombed
eight round, ten long

For his design, the strengthened forest
capriciously outgrew them all...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 235-241

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Description: New land cut out by real imaginary lines
based in older spirit courses
lay and bedrock, flight of birds and pointed feet
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 242-251

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Description: The world is flat; we get around
this stretched credulity
by going straight as an arrow
and meeting ourselves in a space of time
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 259-266

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Description: If you will tell me, then, the things that you have read
I shall not have heard of them
but I will read them for your sake

There is a meeting ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 289-296

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Description: In the letter was the hope that you were well
For shorter hours
A newer coat
And Grace when there was any Grace to tell
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 325-333

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Description: White horses, white fences that money can't buy
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 351-358

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Description: The boss says —
The center is —

Good workmen then served two masters
One a man, the other a craft

A fine-edged tool biting life-long in...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 436-443

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Description: You don't have to pay if you can prove that the fun you had was clean
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 473-481

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Description: The bargain was that the driven wedge
would never be withdrawn
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 623-632

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Description: In God we Trust assorted needs

The complex amplitudes and waste
are never balanced, only tasted
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 648-655

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Description: His mind wandered without rescue

The man is innocent.

and had to be brought home to the corner
and stapled to the ground

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