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| Date: | 10 08 1928 |
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| Description: | Five-year-old Betty Livesey pauses for a picture after the "Declaration of Chivalry" ceremony conducted at the 81st annual Capitol Grand Encampment of the ... |
| 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: | 06 20 1920 |
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| Description: | Herbert Hoover, during his tenure as head of the U.S. Food Administration, receiving an honorary degree from Brown University. |
| 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: | 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. |
| 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: | 1923 |
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| Description: | This historical marker was erected in commemoration of the French explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet in Wyalusing State Park. The two men ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Dedication of the Pecatonica Battleground marker, erected by the Rhoda Hinsdal Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution of Shullsburg and by the town of ... |
| Date: | 06 14 1928 |
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| Description: | The Aupaumut Memorial Tablet unveiling ceremony. The memorial is for Captain Hendrick Aupaumut, a Revolutionary War soldier, born 1757, died 1830. The tabl... |
| Date: | 06 14 1928 |
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| Description: | The Aupaumut Memorial Tablet unveiling ceremony. The memorial is for Captain Hendrick Aupaumut, a Revolutionary War soldier, born 1757, died 1830. The tabl... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Ceremonial performers in traditional Indian costume pose near a steamboat. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The dedication ceremony of the Skavlem Monument, lead by Rev. Gustav Stearns. The monument was dedicated to the "oldest Norwegian immigrant", born 1760, di... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The dedication ceremony of the Skavlem Monument, lead by Rev. Gustav Stearns. The monument was dedicated to the "oldest Norwegian immigrant", born 1760, di... |
| Date: | 07 28 1929 |
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| Description: | Indian pow wow at Bear Trap Falls near Keshena. |
| Date: | 09 05 1921 |
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| Description: | Anna Fox, great-grand niece of Ebenezer Brigham, just after removing the flag unveiling the bronze tablet commemorating Fort Blue Mounds. State historical ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A group of men, women and children gathers as a plaque is unveiled on a brick building. Many of the women are wearing cloche hats and drop waist dresses. T... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Two girls in costume sitting at the feet of Mary Turner Carriel, who is sitting on a raised dais in a chair dressed in a fur-trimmed cape, crowned Mother Q... |
| Date: | 07 28 1926 |
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| Description: | Newspaper clipping including headline, photograph of six Winnebago (Ho Chunk) Indians, and a caption indicating that the men pictured would be attending a ... |
| Date: | 08 27 1927 |
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| Description: | Newspaper clipping from an unidentified Madison, Wisconsin publication about Wisconsin Governor Fred Zimmerman being made a Chief of the Ho-Chunk (Winnebag... |
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