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| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting both New York City as "the wonder city of the world," and train travel. Featuring the artist Adolph Treidler, the poster d... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Washington, D.C. as "the city that every American should know," and to get there by way of train travel. The poster depict... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A crowd has gathered near a large cannon on the Sauk County courthouse square. There are drummers in military uniform and a group of youngsters in Scottish... |
| Date: | 04 28 1939 |
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| Description: | The wedding of journalist Richard Scott Mowrer of the "Chicago Daily News" (hat in hand) and Rosemund Emily Cole in Rome, Italy. Mowrer had just been expel... |
| Date: | 03 12 1939 |
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| Description: | Journalist Cecil Brown, who was reporting for CBS from Rome, Italy, took this picture of the crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican awaiting the coron... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from across road of the first Wisconsin territorial Capitol building, as restored, in Old Belmont (later changed to Leslie). |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Water fountain near city hall at Library Park. There is a water fountain or bubbler on the edge of the fountain. Two men are sitting on separate benches in... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | A road map of Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, showing the populations of cities and villages, state and federal highways, national forests, state... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | This illustrated map shows counties, highways, rivers, roads, present and proposed state parks and forests, proposed state parkways, proposed state monumen... |
| Date: | 03 27 1938 |
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| Description: | Carved into a large stone lintel is "Seipp and Lehmann Lager Bier Keller. Gebaut 1864 [Seipp and Lehmann Lager Beer Cellar, Built 1864]." The stone rests o... |
| Date: | 05 1936 |
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| Description: | A political cartoon from Foreign Service magazine depicting four young men disrespecting and vandalizing the Tomb of the Unknown Solider. One of the... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a sign identifying the Spirit Rock, which is a large boulder surrounded by sturdy protective posts. There are tree stumps in the foreground and a w... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | This colored road map shows automobile roads in Wisconsin as well as portions of Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois. U.S. numbered highways are shown ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | This colored road map shows automobile roads in Wisconsin as well as portions of nearby states. Information on the quality and type of any given road (pave... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A ship with "U.S.A." painted on the side is steaming past the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | The tomb of Rev. Ambrose Oschwald (1801-1873), faced with fieldstone, is built into the hillside behind the Loretto chapel at St. Nazianz cemetery. White ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Armory, Superior, Wis." Corner view of a four-story brick building surrounded by trees. Displayed on the lawn are two cannons and a m... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View toward a road with two large buildings, and a small building on the opposite side. In the foreground on the right is a monument. |
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