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| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of an International Custom 1010 pickup with a young man and woman boarding a small boat at a dock on a rural pond. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Up on floats, an all-metal airplane built by the Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee in 1928. Thomas Hamilton already had a national reputati... |
| Date: | 08 1894 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of two people standing on Schuetzan Park pier. A sailboat is docked at the end of the pier and there is a steamboat on the water. |
| Date: | 07 1910 |
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| Description: | Walter Brookins, a boyhood friend of the Wright Brothers, flying a Wright airplane over the ocean at Atlantic City. Brookins set numerous records for altit... |
| Date: | 07 1912 |
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| Description: | Glenn Curtiss flying over the ocean. The pontoons under each wing illustrate the beginnings of his development of amphibious aircraft. The famous Steel Pie... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company featuring chromolithograph illustrations of the Deering factory, the grain center of the worl... |
| Date: | 03 29 1919 |
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| Description: | Men building a dock along railroad tracks. The tracks run along a stream or small river. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Sheboygan, with inset of J.J. Volrath Manufacturing Company. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Superior, county seat of Douglas County, on the shores of Lake Superior, with insets of points of interest. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Superior. "The New Steel Center." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Superior, Wisconsin, and Duluth, Minnesota on opposite shore of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Washburn on Lake Superior. There is an inset of Washburn, Chequamagon and the Apostle Islands. |
| Date: | 07 29 1935 |
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| Description: | Group of men and women modeling bathing suits that have been approved by the police chief on the Alpha Chi Omega pier on Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 07 20 1934 |
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| Description: | Canoers paddle by to observe Don Krueger standing in the bow of the burned-out "Baby Gar Wood" speedboat after six University of Wisconsin women students w... |
| Date: | 07 13 1933 |
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| Description: | Five boys experimenting with diving apparatus on a diving raft. Left to right: Lyell Tullis, Edgar Tullis, and Jerry Randall fixing the diving head gear, w... |
| Date: | 07 13 1933 |
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| Description: | Edgar Tullis, in the water wearing a diving helmet, is assisted by Jerry Randall and Lyell Tullis, standing on a pier. |
| Date: | 06 10 1932 |
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| Description: | Fanchon & Marco girls on pier. (Twelve bathing beauties in bathing suits on Willows pier.) |
| Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Acacia Fraternity group portrait, in street clothes, on the pier behind the fraternity house at 108 Langdon Street. |
| Date: | 06 18 1931 |
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| Description: | Bathers at the Willows Beach, standing on the pier. |
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