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Richmond Memorial Park Marker

Date: 1929
Description: Richmond Memorial Park Marker with John Donald and Professor Aust seated on either side of it. The marker is located in Gibralter Rock, Wisconsin. It reads...
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Unveiling of the Eleazer Williams Tablet by the D.A.R.

Date: 10 26 1927
Description: View of a crowd of formally-dressed men and women standing around the plaque mounted on a a large rock.
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Ella Hoes Neville Well and Marker

Date: 1933
Description: Two people stand in front of the Ella Hoes Neville well and historic marker, with two insets with close-up views of its architecture.
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Pecatonica Marker Dedication

Date: 1922
Description: Dedication of the Pecatonica Battleground marker, erected by the Rhoda Hinsdal Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution of Shullsburg and by the town of ...
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Cutler House

Date: 1890
Description: Souvenir postcard showing a view of the Cutler house and Morris D. Cutler. Caption reads: "Souvenir postcard of centennial celebration of the founding of W...
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Charles E. Brown Among Burial Mounds on the Edgewood Campus

Date: 05 05 1939
Description: Charles E. Brown poses near a historic tablet marking one of a row of conical burial mounds on the Park and Pleasure drive on the north shore of Lake Wingr...
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Civil War Shell

Date: 1931
Description: A shell of the Civil War period, recovered from the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Mississippi, and presented to the First Capitol State Park by the GAR...
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Daisy Bates at a Book Promotion

Date: 1962
Description: Daisy Bates speaking with unidentified man wearing eyeglasses. Copies of her memoir "The Long Shadow of Little Rock", and plaques from the NAACP for the ni...
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Historical Marker at the Birthplace of the Rhode Island Red Chicken

Date: 1915
Description: A man and woman are sitting in a carriage that has been pulled to the side of the road. They are looking at a historical marker under a tree. The Rhode...
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Vicksburg Surrender Monument

Date: 04 1902
Description: Confederate veterans at the Vicksburg Surrender Monument, on the occasion of decorating Union soldiers' graves.
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Joseph Lucius with a Monument

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Description: Joe Lucius stands behind a monument rock at Lake St. Croix, at the end of the Portage Trail.
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Committee Meeting

Date: 1979
Description: Congressman David Obey of Wisconsin leans over to confer with Congressman Tim Wirth during a meeting of the House Budget Committee. Obey's aide Scott Lill...
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Budget Meeting

Date: 1979
Description: Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin confers with his aide, Scott Lilly, during a meeting of the House Budget Committee.
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Committee Break

Date: 1979
Description: Congressman David R. Obey talks on the telephone during a break in the deliberation of the House Budget Committee. Standing above Obey is his aide Scott Li...
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Speaking for Dairy Interests

Date: 03 23 1983
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) speaking on behalf of Wisconsin dairy interests to the Dairy Subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee al...
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Wisconsin United

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Description: There's nothing like a threat to the fortunes of the dairy business to bring Wisconsin political leaders together. Here two Republicans and two Democrats t...
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Facing the Russians

Date: 03 1985
Description: Arms control talks between visiting Soviets and American legislators. Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey sat in on the talks with Congressman Tom Downey, ...
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30th Anniversary of Social Security

Date: 1965
Description: Wilbur Cohen and Robert Ball sit on a stage behind a table listening to a speaker at the podium during a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the social ...
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Social Security Anniversary

Date: 08 14 1968
Description: View towards podium of Wilbur Cohen presenting Arthur Altmeyer, the first director of the Social Security Board, with a plaque at the anniversary celebrati...
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John Byrnes

Date: 1967
Description: A casual portrait of John W. Byrnes seated at a desk, with a "Member Of Congress" plaque on the wall behind him.

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