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Mayor Law and Chic Sale

Date: 07 20 1933
Description: Mayor James R. Law presenting the keys of the city to Chic Sale, former Dane County land owner and character impersonator performing at the Orpheum Theater...
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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...
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Class Portrait at Saint Raphael's School

Date: 1926
Description: Students pose outdoors in front of a stone building at Saint Raphael's School. Mary Julia O'Dea (born 1917) is standing in the third row, second from the r...
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Class Portrait at Saint Raphael's School

Date: 1927
Description: Students pose outdoors in front of a stone wall at Saint Raphael's School. Mary Julia O'Dea is standing in the 3rd row, first on the right. She is possibly...
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Class Portrait at Saint Raphael's School

Date: 1929
Description: Students pose outdoors in front of a stone buildings at Saint Raphael's School. Mary Julia O'Dea (born 1917) is standing in the third row, third from the l...
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Class Portrait at Saint Raphael's School

Date: 1929
Description: Students pose outdoors in front of a stone building at Saint Raphael's School. David O'Dea is seated cross-legged on the ground, 3rd from the right. He is ...
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Class Portrait at Saint Raphael's School

Date: 1923
Description: Students pose outdoors in front of a stone buildings at Saint Raphael's School. Bill O'Dea is sitting cross-legged in the 1st row, first on the right. Rand...
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Portrait of Carl Russel Fish

Date: 1920
Description: Carl Russell Fish, noted professor of American history at the University of Wisconsin, shown standing on the steps of the State Historical Society building...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Biology Building

Date: 1920
Description: Posed group of University of Wisconsin students (?) on the steps of the Biology Building.
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Statue of P.T. Barnum

Date: 04 27 1960
Description: A statue of P.T. Barnum was in front of the Wisconsin State Historical Society building to announce the coming of the "Barnum Sideshow of the 19th Century"...
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John Blaine with a Kissel Automobile

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Description: John J. Blaine is standing outside the entrance steps to the Wisconsin State Capitol building in front of a Kissel automobile. He is wearing a light-colore...
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Raising "Wisconsin" to the Wisconsin State Capitol Dome

Date: 07 20 1914
Description: A group of men and women look on as the statue, "Wisconsin," tipped sideways, is lifted from the scaffold. Only the bottom section of the statue is visible...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Lamppost

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Description: Lamppost outside of the Wisconsin State Capitol. In the entrance cove of the building on the right is a man wearing a suit, standing partially in shadow.
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Sturgeon

Date: 1940
Description: Two men dressed in suits and hats are posing while supporting a wooden frame from which four sturgeon are hanging, tied up by their tails. A stone building...
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Clarence and Robbie G. at Findlay House

Date: 1912
Description: Two young men are standing in the foreground. Behind them is a fence and a house. There is a yard swing in the yard on the right. Caption reads: "Madison, ...

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