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Wisconsin Dells Minirama

Date: 08 26 1960
Description: Miniature model of the Wisconsin Dells. Goggled diver, Ollie Reese, swimming with Dells recreation boat. This completely landscaped exhibit was built to sc...
Painting

Canadian Prairie Indians on Snowshoes

Date: 1821
Description: Canadian Prairie Indians on Snowshoes.
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Girl in a Mini-Race Car

Date: 05 02 1956
Description: Father demonstrates controls of a mini-race car as his daughter sits in the car.
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Football Team

Date: 1899
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of members of a Whitewater, Wisconsin football team.
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International D-Line Truck used by Astrodome Groundskeepers

Date: 04 12 1966
Description: Color photograph of Houston Astrodome groundskeepers dressed in "moon suits" getting the field ready for the 1966 baseball season. An International D-Line ...
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Waukesha Flying Club

Date: 05 25 1931
Description: The Waukesha Flying Club and their jointly owned Waco 10. The members are (row 1, left to right) Charles Gittner, Joe Rombough, and Roy Winzenreid and (row...
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Vin Fiz Flies Again?

Date: 05 11 1913
Description: The 1911 Wright Model B rebuilt by Jesse Brabazon of Delavan and his partner-mechanic, Frank Shaffer. Brabazon, who is in the pilot's seat, is about to tak...
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Astronaut Exhibit at Austin Straubel Airport

Date: 1965
Description: A traveling display about the NASA manned space program on exhibit at Austin Straubel Airport. Included in the exhibit is a model of a space capsule and a ...
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EAA Bombing Demonstration

Date: 08 1983
Description: The crowd at the Experimental Aviation Association Fly-in enjoyed a demonstration of World War II bombing. Here two planes fly through the swirling black s...
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Iowa's First Flyer

Date: 03 1909
Description: Carl S. Bates, a young inventor from Clear Lake, Iowa, about to race the Buick owned by Louis Strang on the beach at Daytona Beach. Bates originally chall...
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Baiting the Hook

Date: 07 27 1941
Description: An elderly man looking blissful, sitting in a boat getting ready to cast his line.
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Polo Players

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Description: Polo horses take graceful strides as two players vie to hit the ball at Joy Farms.
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Two Central High School Football Players

Date: 10 05 1933
Description: Two Central High School football players. 4219B-1 is unknown. 4219B-2 is Ernie Mitchell, who is African American.
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Barbers at Kiddie Camp

Date: 08 10 1933
Description: Barbers cutting the hair of four children at The Capital Times Kiddie Camp, with other barbers and children looking on.
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Middleton Football Team

Date: 09 01 1931
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Middleton football team.
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Football Player

Date: 09 29 1930
Description: Central High School football player outdoors on a field.
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Central High School Football Players

Date: 09 29 1930
Description: Two Central High School uniformed football players in three point stance on playing field.
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Central High School Football Players

Date: 09 29 1930
Description: Two Central High School football players in uniform posing on the field.
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Middle High School Football Team

Date: 11 15 1929
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Middleton High School football team and coach, sitting on bleachers. Football helmets are in a pile in front of the group.
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Middle High School Football Team

Date: 11 15 1929
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Middleton High School football team and coach, sitting on bleachers. The team is wearing helmets.

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