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| Date: | 07 11 1933 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a fire fighting crew posing with buckets and shovels. They are battling the Big Falls Forest Fire. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Reginald Jackson, Jr., of Madison, holding the toy airplane, and a group of friends, all of whom are wearing short pants, sitting on the windowsill in fron... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A man and woman (possibly husband and wife) maintain a residential backyard. The man, wearing a bow tie, is mowing the lawn with a reel mower, while the wo... |
| Date: | 08 1919 |
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| Description: | Two women and one man, probably rural school teachers, are standing outdoors near a work bench, reviewing the blueprints to construct a nail box. |
| Date: | 07 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Professor J. Duke Elkow and his family stand at their "summer home" at the University of Wisconsin tent colony on Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Unidentified man standing in (a farmyard?) with a broom and wash-basin. |
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| Description: | A young boy is crouching and holding a small swarm of bees over what appears to be a nucleus box. Behind him are hive boxes and frames. |
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| Description: | Two men are posing standing on a balcony on the side of a brick building with several beehives. The man on the right is in front of an open window and is h... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A.C. Bunnill, a beekeeper from Madison, and his child. |
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| Description: | Arnold Gesell (2nd from left) and three friends posing in the open doorway of a tent, with a dog resting in the grass. The men are wearing trousers, shirts... |
| Date: | 08 26 1906 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the punch table at a company picnic under trees. A man stands in the foreground looking at the camera while holding a knife, and the woman... |
| Date: | 04 1946 |
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| Description: | A man, probably a game warden, wearing a necktie and woolen jacket is capturing pheasants in a net. There is a chicken wire fence behind the birds. Beyond ... |
| Date: | 10 09 1965 |
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| Description: | Three men are putting up a billboard sign. Two of the men are wearing suits and the third is wearing an overcoat. Caption reads: "A billboard promoting Mil... |
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| Description: | Three boys are working in a garden at Tilton School. Hand-tinted lantern slide. |
| Date: | 09 03 1917 |
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| Description: | W.A. Holt is standing next to his broken down car in the woods. Three men on the left are examining the wheel of the car. One man is holding a crowbar. On ... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Margaret Bouer Brumder, far right, is sitting on a car seat cushion set on the ground. She is watching her children Herbert Edmund Brumder, reclining on a ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | After gathering birch bark, a group of children and an adult are returning to Island Lodge. One boy is pushing a wheelbarrow. Caption reads: "Birch bark ga... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A wooden windmill tower dominates the front yard of a small one-story wood frame house. A group of people are posing on the left, including two couples sit... |
| Date: | 08 14 1922 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Capture of the Hodag, Rhinelander, Wis." A large group of men armed with guns, pitchforks and rakes hold a beast at bay on top of a l... |
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