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Sedgwick County 4-H Band

Date: 1929
Description: 4-H band from Sedgewick County, Kansas. The band attended the International Harvester livestock show and Boys & Girls Club conclave.
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Four East High School Students

Date: 10 17 1930
Description: Group portrait of four East High School boys.
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East High School John Muir Club

Date: 03 26 1929
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the East High School John Muir club.
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East High School Boy's Glee Club

Date: 03 29 1929
Description: Indoor group portrait of the Madison East High School boy's glee club posing on a stage.
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Education Press Conference

Date: 1978
Description: Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin (center) holding a press conference about federal funding for education with students at Ellis School. A few journal...
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West High School Football Players

Date: 07 22 1956
Description: Dr. L . Riley McCormick examines the teeth of West High School football player Ray Denson. Football player Jim Horney and Dr. William Evans are on the righ...
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Family in Living Room

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Description: In the center is a man posing sitting in a chair. Beside him on the left are two teenage girls standing near a doorway, and on the right standing next to h...
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Presenting the Key to Wade House

Date: 06 06 1953
Description: Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, presents the key to Wade House to Dr. William McKern, of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. The century-old stagecoach inn and...
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Postmaster and Family

Date: 1910
Description: A book in his hands, Postmaster Ed King sits in his wallpapered living room, staring past his wife to the window. Edna, his daughter, is seated at the pian...
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Tennis Players on Court

Date: 1910
Description: Group portrait of a line of people, some holding tennis rackets, posed in a line behind a net on a dirt tennis court between North 3rd and 4th Street. Hous...
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Maple Bluff Social Event for Teens

Date: 06 26 1953
Description: Teenagers Tom Stephan and Jean McFarlane, seated, shown chatting at the Maple Bluff Country Club party.
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School for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf

Date: 1885
Description: Formal group portrait of the students attending the Milwaukee Day School for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf. The first public day school for the deaf, es...
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Family Portrait

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of family on the patio, under the trees.
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State High School Debate Tournament

Date: 02 27 1954
Description: Student John Wilkinson, Tomah High School, speaking from the podium in the forensics tournament held in Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus.
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State High School Debate Tournament

Date: 02 27 1954
Description: Steve Coughlin, Wisconsin High School, using his hands to emphasize a point while debating in the forensics tournament held in Bascom Hall on the Universit...
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Hannah Johnson Family

Date: 1919
Description: Formal group portrait of the Hannah Johnson Family. In the front are (l to r) Maude, Hannah (mother) and Marguerite. In the back are Ruth, Ozzie, Mildred, ...
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University of Wisconsin President's Official Residence

Date: 09 21 1958
Description: University of Wisconsin president Conrad A. Elvehjem's son, Robert, enjoys his own suite in the official president's residence.
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Christmas 1933

Date: 12 25 1933
Description: The three children of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder, from left, Barbara, Herbert E. and Philip, posing standing in the living room of the family ho...

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