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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos... |
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| Description: | Excursion boats at the Wisconsin Dells. Boats Eolah and Alexander Mitchell at mooring, with distinctive Dells rock formations in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set. |
| Date: | 08 31 1909 |
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| Description: | A coaching party of festively clad men, women, and children departing for the Annual Scottish Games sponsored by the St. Andrews Society. Some participants... |
| Date: | 08 06 1934 |
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| Description: | Reverend Richard Kiefer of Sacred Heart monastery in Hales Corners, Wisconsin, joins in the bingo competition at a Catholic picnic, as women and children a... |
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| Description: | Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey circus performers gathered in front of a circus tent to view a solar eclipse. Some are wearing protective eyeglasses. |
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| Description: | Family posing in yard of house with four horses, with two pulling a horse-drawn carriage. There are four women, two men, a young man, five young girls, and... |
| Date: | 08 26 1932 |
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| Description: | Edgewood kindergarten play corner with children, including Jack Kurth, Alex McCormick, Kathleen Kellogg, Dorothy Fox, Bobbie McCormick, and Patsy McCarthy.... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A scene from the Greendale Civilian Defense Rally. Mothers and children sit at a picnic table outside of the "Bendfelt House of Fine Ice Cream" stand opera... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a large, multi-generational Norwegian family and friends gathered for a picnic celebration. In the foreground are picnic baskets ... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of crowd gathered at a Civilian Defense Rally. Booths are in the background, including a game booth where you can "Deflate The Axis,... |
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| Description: | Townspeople fleeing the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Back of painting reads: "Madison in June 1837 after photo taken by E.E. Bailey" and "Peck's cabin by Dengel." The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Two women playing tennis at Coole Park Manor on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Four men and three women posing on Hull's tennis court. |
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| Description: | Target shooting on the east lawn of Villa Louis. Nina S. Dousman is on the extreme right of the image. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Group of people on the front porch, weighing the guests. A visit was considered successful if the guests weighed more when they left. |
| Date: | 04 23 1955 |
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| Description: | Presenting an outboard motor door prize at the annual dance of Local 7, Amalgamated Lithographers of America. "Howie Roth presented the prizes with the ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover, sister of Civil War hero and governor Lucius Fairchild, reclines on a sofa in her home at 424 North Pinckney Street. |
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| Description: | Amos Elliot, pioneer stage coach driver, enjoying a quiet evening at home with his second wife, and her daughter (center), Stella Hart. |
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