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Weighing Guests

Date: 1898
Description: Group of people on the front porch, weighing the guests. A visit was considered successful if the guests weighed more when they left.
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright

Date: 1936
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna, seated together reading in a bedroom at Taliesin. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin...
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Signing Wisconsin Unemployment Law

Date: 01 28 1932
Description: Governor Philip La Follette signing Wisconsin's pioneer unemployment compensation law. From left to right are Henry Ohl, Elizabeth Brandeis, Paul A. Raushe...
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Young Arthur Altmeyer and Friends

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of Arthur Altmeyer as a young man posing in Wingra Park with five other young people identified as Selma, Russell, Lloyd, May Wescot...
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UAW Advisory Committee on Guaranteed Annual Wage

Date: 1954
Description: Arthur Altmeyer poses with the other 19 members of the United Automobile Workers Advisory Committee on Guaranteed Annual Wage.
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Syttende Mai

Date: 1875
Description: Large group at Syttende Mai celebration. Group posing with what may be the national and merchant flag of Norway flag. A number of people are holding croque...
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Farm Family in Living Room

Date: 1900
Description: A farm family posing in their living room. Sitting from left to right is John Dietrich (1874-1947), Grace Bowman (1879-1964), and Mrs. Lizzie Macke Dietric...
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Barman — Pete

Date: 1932
Description: Pete bartending at Club Simplon.
Drawing

Barman — Philip

Date: 1932
Description: Philip bartending at The Bath Club.
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Tractorette Instruction

Date: 1942
Description: Women sitting on grass watching a lecture on maintenance of Farmall A and Farmall M tractors. The lecture was part of International Harvester's "Tractorett...
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Office at Osborne Twine Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Male and female office workers inside International Harvester's Osborne Twine Mill. The Osborne Works was located at 5 Pulaski Street, and was owned and op...
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Brillion News Print Shop

Date: 1901
Description: Interior view of the Brillion News Print Shop, where a printer and his assistants, two women, are posing around a press and work tables.
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Rose Bud Tavern

Date: 10 22 1937
Description: Couples and bartenders at the bar in Rose Bud Tavern (Club Rosebud), Route 50 (3520 E. Washington Avenue), examining a poster which reads: "$1200 in cash p...
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Fourteen Foot Tomato Plant

Date: 09 27 1936
Description: Mr. Liebenberg standing on a ladder measuring a 14 foot tomato plant growing in his garden. Mrs. Liebenberg is standing beside the plant.
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Franklin School Eighth Grade Banquet

Date: 06 11 1936
Description: Children are sitting at the eighth banquet tables at the Franklin School, 305 W. Lakeside Street. There are a few adults sitting at the head table in the b...
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Playground Supervisors

Date: 06 15 1934
Description: Group portrait of fifteen men and ten women. They are playground supervisors hired by the Board of Education and Madison Park Commission to run nine full t...
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Silent Glow Oil Burner Booth

Date: 08 22 1929
Description: Sales personnel pose in the Silent Glow oil burner booth with an oil burning kitchen stove, furnaces, and portable styles of oil burners at the Dane Count...
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Passengers Board International Station Wagon

Date: 03 22 1934
Description: A man and a woman prepare to board an International station wagon ("woody") while the uniformed driver handles their luggage. Another man and woman are alr...
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Harry Dyer and Helene Stratman-Thomas

Date: 08 06 1941
Description: Harry Dyer (b.1864), a former logger and Mississippi riverman, with Helene Statman-Thomas.
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Bearded Man and Wife

Date: 
Description: Full-length portrait of a bearded man and a woman sitting.

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