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| Date: | 04 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Boy Scouts lash together lengths of wood as they put up an exhibit about pioneering for Scout-O-Rama. |
| Date: | 02 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Colonial period travel by stagecoach which is halted at an inn and the horses are being changed, some of the passengers are getting off, one of four murals... |
| Date: | 10 03 1934 |
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| Description: | The mural depicts colonial period travel by stagecoach, which is halted at an inn while the horses are being changed. Some of the passengers are getting of... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man kneels next to a monument dedicated to the pioneers. |
| 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A spinning wheel, chair, and other kitchen objects in the corner of a room. Caption reads: "Corner of Pioneer Kitchen, Douglas County Historical Museum, Su... |
| 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: | 01 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait painting of Kit Carson, a famous trapper and guide of the west. The painting is leaning on a wall, with part of another painting on the right. Par... |
| 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: | 03 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Bishop William P. O'Connor presents the medal of Benemerenti to Frank Blied, a member of a pioneer Madison family. The medal, awarded by Pope Pius XII, is ... |
| Date: | 02 11 1928 |
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| Description: | A man uses an McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor to pull a large trailer with a large tank down a street in a commercial area. The text on the sign above a... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Kentucky and the Pennsylvania Railroad through an artist's depiction of two men dressed in buckskin, wearing raccoon hats ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Low view of a bronze statue of Daniel Boone standing atop a pedestal of rough-hewn rocks. Leafy tree limbs form the backdrop. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's sculpture entitled "Buffalo Bill - The Scout," which commemorates William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody. The bronze sculptur... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Painting of an elevated view of Pilgrims and Native Americans meeting in a town. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Thomas (Tom) and Florence Quinney standing in front of their farmhouse which has a climbing vine growing on it. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Katherine (Kate) Quinney and her brothers, Thomas (Tom) and Willam (Bill), standing in a yard. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Posed studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Quinney family, including Bridget (O'Keefe) Quinney, her sons Thomas (Tom) and William (Bill), ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Will and Lorena Holloway seated in a car parked in a farmyard while chickens forage in the foreground. |
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