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Men with Farm Tools

Date: 1879
Description: Five men, facing away from the camera, are standing in a field. Some of them are holding a rakes and a scythe. A boy is in the foreground facing the camera...
Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

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Description: The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison.
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Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 06 1837
Description: Lithograph based on a painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey showing the Peck cabin, the first house in Madison. In addition to the cabin, the lithograph includes a ...
Photograph

Female Curling Team

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Description: A female curling team poses with their brooms and stones for a portrait.
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Cribbage Game at Fire Station

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Description: Fireman playing cribbage in a quiet moment at the Dayton and Randall Streets Fire Station Number 4 with spittoon in the foreground.
Photograph

Conklin Ice House

Date: 1912
Description: Men harvesting ice at the Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. The men are using pike poles to slide the blocks to the conveyor and U-shaped tools to split p...
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Navy Cooks and Bakers Group

Date: 09 09 1943
Description: Ten Navy cooks and bakers watching meat carving demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef. Soldiers include Robert W. Merryman, Vernon R....
Photograph

Niglis Implement Store

Date: 07 23 1935
Description: Four customers visit the Niglis Implement Store, an International Harvester dealership at 724 Williamson Street, with three employees behind the counter.
Photograph

East High School Boys' Cooking Class

Date: 06 07 1934
Description: Four boys in chef's hats and aprons are preparing food at a counter and stove in the East High School boys' cooking class. Left to right: Arthur Hanson, Ke...
Photograph

Mr. Gannon and Cook in Transient Home

Date: 08 04 1933
Description: Director Tom C. Gannon, (on the right) and Assistant Chef Ed Masury in apron, who is drawing a cup of coffee, standing at the stove in the transient home k...
Photograph

Sheriff Finn with Sledgehammer

Date: 07 11 1933
Description: Sheriff Finn holding sledgehammer used to break open the safe of Odin Tofsrud, carpenter and truck farmer, who was murdered during the theft of his safe by...
Photograph

Steam Locomotive Used at Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 06 20 1933
Description: Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery and used to provide...
Photograph

Steam Locomotive at Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 06 20 1933
Description: Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a railroad steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery. This was ...
Photograph

Steeplejacks Repointing Chimney

Date: 08 05 1931
Description: Steeplejacks Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, in the cap, repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. The photograph was...
Photograph

Men Clearing Field for Playground

Date: 05 25 1928
Description: ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) men clearing area for playground at Burr Jones Field at 1800 E. Washington Street.
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Gardner Bakery

Date: 04 02 1928
Description: Gardner Baking Company, showing men taking Purity Bread from ovens, 849 E. Washington Avenue.
Photograph

Lamp House

Date: 1912
Description: The Robert Lamp house, 22 North Butler Street, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, architect. A man wearing a coat and hat is standing at the front right corne...
Photograph

Excavation of Goose Effigy on University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus

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Description: Charles E. Brown (left), directs excavation of a goose effigy mound at the Willow Drive mound group on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Chef Frosting a Cake

Date: 12 21 1944
Description: Otto Wiedholz, Vienna French Pastry Shop, 334 State Street, frosting a cake. Otto and his wife, Elsie, 414 Chestnut Street, are the owners of the pastry sh...
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Picnic Point Work Day Blue Jeans King And Queen

Date: 04 28 1945
Description: Annual University of Wisconsin-Madison student work day project located at Picnic Point. Shown posing together are the chosen "blue jeans" king and queen f...

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