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| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's residence and architectural school complex, with the Wisconsin River visible at the top. Taliesin is located... |
| Date: | 08 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Six Russian representatives of the Soviet government observing a new McCormick-Deering Company Model 50-T hay baler at the Bowman Dairy Farm on Fish Hatche... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | One of the larger buildings of "Little Norway." |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Buildings at "Little Norway." From left to right: main lodge (formerly Haugen barn), summer kitchen, tool house, and guest house. |
| Date: | 10 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Scene of wrecked car and semi-trailer truck in front of Alma's Inn, 5068 Highway 12-13. Injured in the accident were five men en route to work at the Badge... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Little Norway buildings near a hill. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Buildings at "Little Norway." From left to right: tool house, Norway house, Haugen homestead. The wagon in foreground is a kubberulle; the wheels are sec... |
| Date: | 04 09 1945 |
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| Description: | A.M. Mickelson, 10 N. Owen Dr., inspecting the scene of the explosion at the base of Sunset point where three Madison boys were badly burned while playing ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Colsac Ferry across the Wisconsin River at Merrimac. There is a bridge across the river in the background on the left. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Customers standing outside the small bar are probably waiting to take the ferry across the river. |
| Date: | 06 1946 |
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| Description: | View of the 3500 block of University Avenue, site of the Coca-Cola Bottling plant. There are trees along the road and names on mailboxes of "Middleton" and... |
| Date: | 02 21 1947 |
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| Description: | After hooking a wing into a huge tree, an airplane piloted by Carl Anderson crashed onto a town road in Fitchburg near the Sam McGaw farm. The impact tore ... |
| Date: | 08 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Abandoned army shooting range at Truax Field, with Police Officer Lester Shore in the lower right foreground. |
| Date: | 11 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Neighbors of the Pomputis family and newspaper reporters wait on a highway near the farm where the confessed murderers were hiding. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | HM-110-L cotton picker attached to a Farmall H tractor in a cotton field. A man is sitting at the wheel of the tractor. |
| Date: | 01 11 1948 |
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| Description: | The remains of the boiler tank of the Milwaukee Road railroad engine of the Portage to Madison passenger train, which exploded and derailed south of Arling... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two cotton pickers, the first driven by Fowler McCormick, president of the International Harvester Company, drive through a field on the Hopson Planting Co... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Farm buildings stand in the distance at the Hopson Planting Company's plantation. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Piles of cotton fill a storage bin at the Hopson Planting Company plantation. |
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