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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A Yankee-built Greek Revival frame house from the 1840s. The small dark rectangular plaque above the door is a Madison Mutual Insurance Company sign that i... |
| Date: | 09 10 1922 |
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| Description: | Pioneers of Buffalo County memorial marker. Taken during the dedication ceremonies with a young girl standing next to an American flag. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View of two men posing on either side of the Radisson and Groseilliers House historical marker. The house was the first built by white men in Wisconsin and... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 07 1914 |
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| Description: | Sara (Mrs. Joseph) Mallon (Menominee) of Milwaukee, wearing a sash stands between two American flags behind a memorial that reads, "Indian Mounds: One of s... |
| Date: | 11 06 1980 |
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| Description: | Magda Herzberger stands in front of a map of the United States holding a wooden plaque carved with a Star of David and the inscription, "In Gratitude to Ma... |
| Date: | 06 27 1954 |
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| Description: | Vona Donald poses next to a newly dedicated plague. The occasion was the opening of a new wayside park located along Highway 92 between Mt. Horeb and Mt. V... |
| Date: | 09 25 1954 |
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| Description: | Thomas E. Jones, Sr. stands before the plaque that will honor him in the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in the Milwaukee Arena (now the U.S. Cellular Aren... |
| Date: | 04 2011 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman Ron Kind standing at the entrance of his Washington office. |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | Jim Widmer accepts an award for his service to the athletic program at Lomira High School. |
| Date: | 04 27 1960 |
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| Description: | A statue of P.T. Barnum was in front of the Wisconsin State Historical Society building to announce the coming of the "Barnum Sideshow of the 19th Century"... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| 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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| Description: | Newton Minow and Bill Henry stand together in front of an American Flag and a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plaque. |
| Date: | 10 1998 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips standing beside Jeannetta Robinson. Jeannetta is holding a plaque that awards the James Howard Baker Award to Career Youth Development, Inc. f... |
| Date: | 03 1979 |
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| Description: | Brooks McCormick standing with Rev. Leon Sullivan. Both men wear International Harvester nametags, and they are holding a plaque which reads, in part: "Dis... |
| Date: | 03 1979 |
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| Description: | Brooks McCormick receiving an award from a man standing near a podium. The award plaque reads, in part: "Distinguished Service Award, Brooks McCormick, In ... |
| Date: | 10 05 1951 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler Jr., (left) and James R. Law, state highway commission chairman, standing indoors with the Peshtigo cemetery marker. The marker w... |
| Date: | 09 02 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Nellie Red Cloud, mother of the Korean War hero, Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr., standing in front of the historical marker dedicated to her son. Sh... |
| Date: | 07 23 1967 |
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| Description: | Albert Kratch, president of the Lake Mills-Aztalan Historical Society, in front of the Aztalan State Park historical marker. Kratch helped to organize even... |
| Date: | 05 23 1965 |
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| Description: | One of the last covered bridges in Wisconsin, located in Cedarburg, received an official state historical marker. The Last Covered Bridge historical marker... |
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