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| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a North Central Airlines DC-3 airplane flying over the Madison isthmus. Clearly visible are the Wisconsin State Capitol, the 1 West Wilson S... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of contour strip farming with the Obert Olstad farm in foreground. The Carl Backum farm is in the background. |
| Date: | 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Windsled used to transport passengers and goods between Madeline Island and Bayfield. This image was in Ross' book, "La Pointe: Village Outpost". |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | This was the first boat & sled-type wind sled built on Madeline Island. Built by Elmer Nelson for Howard Russell between 1950-1951. Had a 9-cylinder R-680-... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Elmer Nelson sorting through boxes of goods being transported on the "Dream Sled" windsled. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | This was the first boat & sled-type windsled built on Madeline Island. Built by Elmer Nelson for Howard Russell between 1950-1951. Had a 9-cylinder R-680-E... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Constructing the Madeline Island Historical Museum in La Pointe which consists of four separate buildings. L-to-r: jail; American Fur Trade storage buildin... |
| Date: | 06 07 1954 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Midvale neighborhood under construction showing the intersection of Midvale and Tokay Boulevards near the southwestern city limits of Ma... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster promoting a "Low Cost Rental Plan" for Farmall Cub and International Cub Lo-Boy tractors and equipment. Features the text: "Do These Job... |
| Date: | 05 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Zookeepers releasing rhesus monkeys to the island that serves as their summer home at the Washington park zoo (later replaced by the Milwaukee County Zoo). |
| Date: | 12 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Downtown Madison lakeshore taken from Lake Monona in line with South Pinckney Street. Includes St. Raphael's steeple, 1 West Wilson Street state office bui... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of two men operating a Farmall 300 tractor and a McCormick baler in a field. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Milwaukee Railroad superdome passenger car passing through the Wisconsin Dells. |
| Date: | 04 25 1953 |
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| Description: | A mushroom cloud from possibly Yucca Flats, Nevada where there was a nuclear bomb test. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Farmers harvesting grain with a McCormick Farmall Super C tractor, combine (harvester-thresher) and International LM-120 truck. The McCormick Farmall Super... |
| Date: | 04 1959 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of 4-H youth operating a Farmall 340 tractor with mounted plow. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men seated on Farmall and International tractors for 1957 assembled in two rows in a V-shaped formation. Pictured here (L to R) are: Farm... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View towards a farmer in a field with a stage I McCormick Farmall Super H tractor and attached four-row cultivator. Farm buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 10 10 1951 |
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| Description: | Two Banshee jet fighters from the carrier Essex in search of targets in the North Korean sector. |
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