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Eastwood Theatre Organ

Date: 01 10 1930
Description: A male organist is sitting on a bench and looking towards the camera in front of the Eastwood Theatre organ. The organ grill is in the background on the fa...
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Halle Steensland and Family

Date: 1875
Description: Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children (left to right: Morten, Henry, Edward, Halbert and Helen) in front of their home in Mapl...
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Senator George Norris

Date: 1917
Description: Senator George Willliam Norris posed at the base of a fluted column on the portico of the United States Capitol building. He holds a document in his right ...
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Dr. Robert Riseborough and Victor J. Yannacone at DDT Hearings

Date: 12 09 1968
Description: University of California molecular biologist, Dr. Robert Riseborough, left, confers during a break in the DDT hearings with Victor J. Yannacone, the attorn...
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Francis T. Johnson

Date: 1931
Description: Francis Johnson, teacher at the Mayo School, District No. 1, standing beside a screened porch. The porch has a rustic log railing and stone foundation. The...
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Kressin Family Portrait

Date: 10 14 1906
Description: Outdoor portrait of the August Kressin family posing on the side of the front steps of a house. August Kressin sits on the top step holding Alice Kressin, ...
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Greene & Button Co. Store

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Description: A group of men, possibly employees, pose in front of Greene & Button Co. store among boxes and crates of various goods.
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Child on Horse-Drawn Mower in Yard of Victorian Home

Date: 1900
Description: Group of people posing in front of large Victorian home (Joseph Robbins?). A child is sitting on a horse-drawn mower in the yard in front. The horses are w...
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Three Generations

Date: 1910
Description: Dr. Otto Schmidt, left, poses with his mother-in-law, Catherine Seipp, and his daughter Alma on the lawn in front of the main house at Black Point. Cather...
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Conrad Seipp and Family

Date: 1884
Description: Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp (1825-1890), seated at left, poses with his second wife, Catherine Orb Seipp (1846-1920), seated to his left, with other family...
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Man on Horse-Drawn Mower with Ruins of Building

Date: 1900
Description: Man posing on a horse-drawn mower in front of the ruins of a building surrounded by a fence. The building is probably a church as there are wreaths on grav...
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Ernst in Heidelberg

Date: 03 14 1930
Description: Ernst Schmidt, second from left, on a tour of the ruins of Heidelberg Castle with his guide, left, and two unidentified persons. They are standing in the c...
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Charley Minney

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Description: Charley Minney posing in front of Villa Louis.
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Flags in the Windows

Date: 1918
Description: An unidentified young man standing on a curved sidewalk in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. He is holding his hat in his right hand and is wearing a s...
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Rounders Club Christmas Party

Date: 12 17 1953
Description: Five members of the Rounders Club meet at the annual Christmas party in the Heidelberg Hofbrau. Roundy Coughlin, eternal president of the Rounders Club, gi...
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Wisconsin State Legislature Session Begins

Date: 01 12 1955
Description: The newly elected Assembly speaker, Mark Catlin, Jr. (right), signing the official vote register as Robert H. Boyson (left), voting machine operator, is lo...
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Celebrating Mohammed's Birthday in Sarajevo

Date: 01 18
Description: Mevludfest (the birthday of Mohammed) being celebrated in Sarajevo on January 18th.
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National Mass Communications History Center Opening

Date: 01 25 1958
Description: Walter Oleksy (left, of Chicago) and Dale Lang (of Madison) were visitors at the symposium conducted by four national news commentators at the opening of t...
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Tivoli Hotel

Date: 03 1913
Description: A stout, well-dressed gentleman is posing in the foreground, with the Tivoli Hotel behind him on a hill in Ancon, Panama. He is wearing a straw hat, jacket...
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City Gate

Date: 1924
Description: Margaret (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder, center, posing with her children, from left, Herbert Edmund, Philip, and Barbara. Barbara is holding the hand of an uni...

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