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| Date: | 07 1894 |
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| Description: | A Ponca Indian Sundance. The participants are lined up in the grass. |
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| Description: | An Osage woman prepares to be married to the corn. A man leads her horse. |
| Date: | 09 10 1922 |
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| Description: | Pioneers of Buffalo County memorial marker. Taken during the dedication ceremonies with a young girl standing next to an American flag. |
| Date: | 08 14 1932 |
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| Description: | Front row: W.E. Dillon, County Highway Commissioner of Ashland; Andrew Good of Gordon Lake at Glidden; Patsy Winter of Ashland and Leo Jerome Driscoll, unv... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of students at the Hillside Home School performing a may pole dance while an audience looks on. Dance instruction at the school was provided ... |
| Date: | 08 14 1932 |
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| Description: | The watershed sign unveiled. The marker is 39 miles south of Ashland adjacent to Highway 13, 2 miles north of Gordon Lake. |
| Date: | 08 14 1932 |
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| Description: | Watershed sign unveiled with ceremony participants. The marker is 39 miles south of Ashland adjacent to Highway 13, 2 miles north of Gordon Lake. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Memorial Chapel, dedicated on May 28, 1939. A large group of people are standing on the lawn in front of the chapel. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View of Memorial Chapel, dedicated on May 8, 1939. A group of people are gathered on the lawn in front of the chapel. |
| Date: | 10 26 1927 |
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| Description: | View of a crowd of formally dressed men and women standing around a stone monument with a plaque on it. The edge of what may be a large American flag is vi... |
| Date: | 10 26 1927 |
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| Description: | View of a crowd of formally-dressed men and women standing around the plaque mounted on a a large rock. |
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| Description: | Virgina Lee Kehl and twins Jo Ann and Jo Jean Kehl perform in a bridal number in costumes designed and crafted by Mrs. Genevieve Kehl. |
| Date: | 04 25 1929 |
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| Description: | Ceremony for the unveiling of the statue of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. On the platform, left to right, are Senator R... |
| Date: | 02 02 1959 |
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| Description: | Presentation of the Heart Award by President Eisenhower and Senator Lyndon Johnson. The citation is read by Bruce Barton. |
| Date: | 10 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., cuts a ribbon to open the "They Did It Themselves: 50 Years Ago" exhibit at the State Historical Society. Mrs. Vincent W. K... |
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| Description: | Five Ho-Chunk performers in front of cloth barriers or tents. A powwow group from the 1908 Homecoming. The five are full brothers according to the 1881 tri... |
| Date: | 07 09 1919 |
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| Description: | Governor Phillip outdoors at a victory celebration. |
| Date: | 05 20 1956 |
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| Description: | Indoor group portrait of boys and girls, in school uniforms, at graduation from a Catholic School. A priest is standing on the left. |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Willie Mae Small, 107 years old, sits in a chair off to the side during an outdoor service (church?). |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Members of the National Welfare Rights Organization, some dressed in choir robes, hold candles and a cross as they are confronted by police. This is at the... |
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