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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: | 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: | The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi... |
Date: | 09 30 1988 |
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Description: | Young girl holding a book about child care written by Dr. Benjamin Spock, M.D. She is holding the book upside down. |
Date: | 11 17 1909 |
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Description: | Colorized view depicting men and women office workers taking a break in a celebratory mode. Two of the women are taking a sheet off the calendar on the wal... |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | James Peterson, son of the photographer, playing the harmonica. He is sitting against a stump, with trees in the distance. |
Date: | 01 13 1967 |
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Description: | Dejected skier at home with cast and crutches, after breaking her leg practicing for competition. |
Date: | 08 25 1936 |
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Description: | The "House of David" traveling baseball team advertisement for an upcoming game. |
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Description: | A female curling team poses with their brooms and stones for a portrait. |
Date: | 05 14 1987 |
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Description: | A couple holds hands and reads together while sitting on a bench. |
Date: | 11 28 1936 |
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Description: | Portrait of John (Jack) Albright, former owner of the Club Monterey and one-time king of Madison gamblers, in jail, charged with keeping a gambling house, ... |
Date: | 03 16 1934 |
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Description: | Woman's Club Shawl pageant, front: Colonial: Odette Hendrickson and Joyce Wittwer, Hungarian, Merrilyn Olson. Left rear: Egyptian, Rosemary Rice; current 1... |
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Description: | A man shows two teenagers the intricacies of what is under the hood of the family car. |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | Della Royal (Mrs. Rhoda Royal) sits in a 2-wheeled cart decorated with flowers and harnessed to her world famous horse, "Glendive," as taken from a 1906 ha... |
Date: | 05 25 1926 |
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Description: | Menominee Indians eating lunch together on Chief Oshkosh Day, May 25, 1926, "the occasion of the removal of the chief's remains from an unmarked grave besi... |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | A sketch of the winning dress designed by Betty Lou Jahn of Milwaukee for the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948. Not only was the design worn by the first A... |
Date: | 1949 |
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Description: | LaVonne Hermann of Mount Horeb, the 1949 Alice in Dairyland, is shown in a formal pose, wearing her crown. |
Date: | 06 19 1983 |
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Description: | Tina Polley looked through a pair of large clown eyeglasses as she ate an ice cream cone at an Ice Cream and Pie Social at St. Francis Episcopal Church. |
Date: | 07 26 1981 |
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Description: | Maynard Entringer of South Milwaukee is awarded the World Championship of the Kraut Eating Contest by the Queen of the Kraut Festival, Sharon Kerkman of Bu... |
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