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Market Square

Date: 1890
Description: Polish immigrant standing near a team of horses eating hay in Market Square. He is wearing work clothes. Large brick buildings are in the background.
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Market Square

Date: 1890
Description: Polish immigrants in Market Square wearing Polish national dress. The men are wearing suits, coats, and hats. The women are wearing dresses, shawls and hat...
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Market Square

Date: 1890
Description: Polish immigrants, wearing Polish national dress, with a wagon in Market Square. Other men in the square are wearing suits, long coats, and hats. The women...
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Market Square

Date: 1895
Description: Elevated view of Polish immigrants in Market Square with horse-drawn lumber sledges and hay wagons. Commercial buildings are in the background. A sign on o...
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Polish Refugees on Train

Date: 1946
Description: Train full of Polish refugees. Photograph taken by Louis Koplin during the time he worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; near the Ge...
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Cyla Tine Stundel's Family Portrait

Date: 1937
Description: Cyla Tine Stundel's family portrait; Kolk, Poland.
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Portrait of Israel Wolnerman

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Description: Portrait of Holocaust survivor, Israel Wolnerman. Wolnerman was among thousands of prisoners from Staltach (a subsidiary of Dachau), on their way to annihi...
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William Irvine

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of William Irvine, Chippewa Falls lumberman.
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General Cutler

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of General Cutler.
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Reichert Barn — Exterior

Date: 2004
Description: This old building is on George Reichert's property at N9279 Hwy 175 (Section 6).
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Polish Young People's Alliance

Date: 1917
Description: Composite group portrait of the Polish Young People's Alliance.
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Nazi Rally

Date: 07 1939
Description: Soldiers watching a Nazi rally in Danzig from which American correspondent Alvin Steinkopf was reporting for the Associated Press in 1939.
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Street Car in Krakow

Date: 1940
Description: A street car in Krakow photographed by American journalist Alvin Steinkopf while on a tour of German-occupied Poland. He labeled it in his scrapbook."Jews ...
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Ghetto Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: Street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, photographed by American journalist Alvin Steinkopf, about one year after the German invasion.
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Quarantine Fence

Date: 1940
Description: A barbed wire fence in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw constructed to quarantine people infected with lice. At this point the wall around the entire ghetto had...
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Lublin Ghetto

Date: 10 1940
Description: The Jewish ghetto in Lublin, Poland.
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Krakow

Date: 1940
Description: The Market Hall and Square in Krakow, Poland, about a year after the German invasion.
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Pope John Paul II

Date: 1980
Description: Congressman David Obey meets Pope John Paul II. Obey stands at the microphone while Pope John Paul II is seated on his throne.
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Obey and Lech Walesa

Date: 11 15 1989
Description: Congressman David Obey and Chairman of Solidarity Lech Walesa of Poland shake hands.
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Officers of the Polish Legion

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Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...

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