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| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International motor trucks with color illustration of a truck and ghostly images of pioneers on horseback and oxen-drawn Conestoga w... |
| Date: | 12 01 1944 |
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| Description: | Reenacting a pioneer Christmas custom of many foreign settlers in the early days of Wisconsin of singing carols around the family organ, are left to right:... |
| Date: | 08 19 1946 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. Jane Duff, a Dane County pioneer resident, on her 90th birthday. |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Centennial Parade near the Wisconsin State Capitol. The Blue Mounds float depicting Dane County's first settler, Ebenezer Brigham, is coming down... |
| Date: | 09 07 1997 |
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| Description: | "Pioneer Days is celebrated at Firemen's Park. Civil War reenactors, in period garb, put on a show of battlefield conditions." |
| Date: | 04 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Menu from the Inaugural Luncheon of the Half-Century Club of the National Association of Tobacco Distributors, with a pioneer driving a team of horses pull... |
| Date: | 08 10 1954 |
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| Description: | At the Sun Prairie Early Settlers' picnic at Angell Park, the oldest settler present was Julia McElroy, 89, pictured with her son, George McElroy. |
| Date: | 06 09 1985 |
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| Description: | Arville Schaleben at the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Matanuska Valley Colony. Text on back of photograph reads: "Harry M. Campbell, Sr., Arvill... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A group of children are standing together near a tent. A young girl wearing overalls is standing on the left. Caption with negative reads: "'Surprise.' Chi... |
| Date: | 06 22 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption with negative reads: "At the funeral of Donald Henry Koenen, 4, of South Range, Wis., son of Henry Koenen, on June 22. Picture shows the crowd comi... |
| Date: | 07 04 1935 |
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| Description: | Caption with negative: "Mrs. Walter Fox, one of the colonists, got an encore at the Palmer fourth of July fete by her guitar playing and singing of ballads... |
| Date: | 06 2019 |
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| Description: | 50th anniversary plaque for 1935-1985 honoring the families from Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota who migrated to Alaska. |
| Date: | 06 2019 |
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| Description: | Plaque on a rock in the cemetery, which was established in 1936. |
| Date: | 06 2019 |
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| Description: | Plaque for Michigan Colonist Families, outdoors on a rock, 1935-1985. |
| Date: | 06 2019 |
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| Description: | Plaque for Minnesota Colonist Families, outdoors on a rock, 1935-1985. |
| Date: | 06 2019 |
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| Description: | Plaque for Wisconsin Colonist Families, outdoors on a rock, 1935-1985. |
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