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| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Office supply show sponsored by Bill Goff, Inc., featuring Ediphones produced by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Employees(?) learning about a chain drive gear at the St. Paul Flax and Twine Mill. Portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and an advertising p... |
| Date: | 01 05 1935 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Governor Albert G. Schmedeman, painted by Merton Grenhagen, in the gallery of governors at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Mary and Shurley, daugh... |
| Date: | 07 03 1934 |
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| Description: | W.A. Devine, Madison postmaster for 24 years, with his portrait, painted by Arthur N. Colt, a Madison artist, at State Historical Society, 816 State Street... |
| Date: | 05 10 1934 |
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| Description: | Victorian cocktail room, Park Hotel, featuring a portrait of Queen Victoria. |
| Date: | 05 10 1934 |
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| Description: | Victorian cocktail room, Park Hotel, featuring a portrait of Queen Victoria and a large pier mirror. |
| Date: | 04 15 1932 |
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| Description: | Attendees in formal wear are standing in a military ball receiving line, from right to left: Sam Pierce, Arnold H. Dammen, Helga Gundersen, Ralph M. Immel... |
| Date: | 03 25 1932 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette buying a "buddy poppy" from two women in behalf of the American Legion. The governor is standing in his Wisconsin State Cap... |
| Date: | 10 28 1931 |
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| Description: | Abraham Lincoln impersonator, Charles E. Bull, of Hollywood, California, and Jesse S. Meyers, commander of the Madison G.A.R. post, stand in front of a por... |
| Date: | 10 28 1931 |
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| Description: | Abraham Lincoln impersonator, Charles E. Bull, Hollywood, California and Jesse S. Meyers, commander of the Madison G.A.R. post, and two other men are stand... |
| Date: | 10 19 1931 |
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| Description: | Edison kinetascope, patented in 1897, one of the first motion picture projectors invented by Thomas A. Edison. It is hand cranked and chain driven. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of William Horlick (1846-1936), by Harold A. Stewart. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | The Indian Agency House near the site of Fort Winnebago. Interior view of the parlor. The house served as residence for John and Juliette Kinzie after 1829... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Indian Agency House, near the site of Fort Winnebago. This is an interior view of the parlor. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Indian Agency House near the site of Fort Winnebago. Interior view of the parlor. |
| Date: | 06 1938 |
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| Description: | View of the parlor with a Nunns and Clark piano, identical to the one owned by Juliette Kinzie when she resided in the house between 1830-1833. |
| Date: | 06 02 1933 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor and a harvester-thresher (combine) on display in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Centur... |
| Date: | 07 25 1933 |
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| Description: | Native Americans in traditional dress test a harvester-thresher (combine) in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's fai... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the "Route of the Empire Builder," by way of the Great Northern Railroad, and promoting travel to Glacier Nation... |
| Date: | 12 23 1938 |
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| Description: | Two unidentified Civil War veterans at soldier's home on December 23, 1938, along with two representatives from the American Legion. The veterans are both ... |
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