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Schendel's Vaudeville Show, Circus, and Menagerie

Date: 08 23 1901
Description: The stage and surrounding posters of Professor Oscar John Schendel's "All Star Vaudeville, Big Three-Ringed Circus, and Mammoth Menagerie."
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Home Economics Club Meeting

Date: 10 16 1944
Description: Three women at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Mrs. Irving (Clara) Johnson, president of...
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Workshop at Chattanooga Works

Date: 1930
Description: A worker is standing at a workbench in a shop at the Chattanooga Plow Works. The man may be testing implement parts.
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Vera McCampbell Testifying

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Description: Vera McCampbell, former teacher in Grundy County, who came to the mountains with May Justus before Highlander Folk School was started in 1932, testifying d...
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Myles Horton Testifying

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Description: Myles Horton testifying during a hearing for the Highlander Folk School investigation in Grundy County.
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Fitting Safety Glasses at Tractor Works

Date: 1948
Description: Two men standing in a factory office at International Harvester's Tractor Works. One man is fitting safety glasses on the other man. Behind them is a poste...
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News Broadcaster Promotes Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: News broadcaster Bon Turner makes an appeal over the radio to farmers to bring their scrap metal into town to help meet the country's need for vital war ma...
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Madison YWCA Y-Teens

Date: 10 03 1951
Description: Beverly Hill, left, and Carol Sterling make posters for the Y-Teen open house and style show at the YWCA. Mary Ellen Kruger, standing, the Y-Teen adviser, ...
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Demonstration on Rope Tying

Date: 1919
Description: Rope tying demonstration for a group of rural school teachers. Original caption reads: "County Supt. Tobin, Country Life Director, and rural school teacher...
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Lesson on Eradication of Cattle Tick

Date: 1915
Description: A group of men, women, and children sitting on wooden benches inside Cottage Hill School as they watch Professor P.G. Holden give a presentation on the era...
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Shorewood Corners Association

Date: 10 05 1953
Description: Portrait of T.L. Graham, vice president of the recently organized Shorewood Corners Association. He is the owner of Graham's Books and Stationery, 3238 Uni...
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Easter Seals Beneficiaries

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Margaret Fliegel holds a book while sitting on her bed in front of an anatomy chart. She was a senior physical therapy student and a Easter Seal grant rec...
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Livestock in Waukesha Sales Pavilion

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Description: Either an auction or a judged show featuring dairy cattle at the Waukesha Sales Pavilion. Spectators are arranged on three sides of the stage. Poster on th...
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University of Wisconsin Red Cross Fundraising Drive

Date: 03 12 1956
Description: Three University of Wisconsin students work on a poster in preparation for a fundraising drive for the campus Red Cross. They are, from left: William Gage,...
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Cat in the Hat Day

Date: 02 1998
Description: Congressman David R. Obey reads from "The Cat in the Hat" to young constituents who are wearing special hats. In the background are several shelves of book...
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Teens Against Polio Dance

Date: 01 14 1957
Description: Three teenagers on the planning committee for the Teens Against Polio dance look at a poster advertising the event. Left to right: Dick Togstad, West High;...
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Otis Elevator

Date: 1954
Description: Elevated view from stairway of the ornate Otis elevator in the Wisconsin Historical Society building. This elevator was installed as original equipment in ...
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Demonstrating Infant Care at Neighborhood House

Date: 1929
Description: View of a woman standing at a table demonstrating infant care (swaddling?) using a baby doll to five women and two children who are sitting in chairs facin...
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Congressman and his Secretary

Date: 06 1970
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey and his secretary in his office in the United States Capitol.
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Election Worker

Date: 10 2012
Description: Mrs. Curt Reithel, a La Crosse County Democratic Headquarters worker, on the phone during the 2012 Election run-up. She is seated at a desk. A brick wall i...

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