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| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | View from street of a man standing on the corner of Baldwin and Williamson streets resting his arms on a traffic control box. He is wearing a suit jacket a... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | View of Williamson Street from inside Shafer Pharmacy. The owner, Hugh Hessman, is standing by a large arched window looking out onto the street. He wears ... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | View from across the street of a man, John Cline, sitting on a stoop outside an open door leading to a staircase. There is another doorway on the right. Th... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Bob Bender, wearing a business suit and a chauffeur hat, is posing next to "Nellie," his shiny, black 1956 Cadillac Fleetwood parked in front of the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Truck drivers using pay phones at a truck stop off Interstate 90. |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Steve Gunderson is standing next to a flatbed truck bearing a "Gunderson for Congress" banner. The truck is carrying a band and several supporters. Likely ... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Steve Gunderson at a booth with Republican supporters of his 1980 campaign for U.S. Congress. Campaign materials for several republican politicians are on ... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A historical marker mounted on a metal post tells the story of Col. Richard Dunbar discovering, in 1866, the healing properties of water from a nearby spri... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | A large, spreading bur oak is standing near the intersection of South Seventh and Washington Streets in front of a small restaurant. A van is parked in fro... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | View across parking lot towards a group of Japanese woman posing in front of Leon's Frozen Custard. Caption reads: "Visiting Japanese students posed in fro... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A segment of the trunk of a pine bears the scars of a "blaze" carved with an ax and bearing the inscription: "XIX T. J. Cram, D. Houghton Aug 11, 1841." C... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A large, nearly symmetrical cottonwood standing on the front lawn of a granite-clad colonial revival house on Underwood Avenue (Highway 23). A small sign a... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A large, spreading white oak standing in front of a fence in a snow covered open area at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. It is named for Col... |
| Date: | 1984 |
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| Description: | Two blue and white presidential political campaign bumper stickers for Ronald Reagan. The top bumper sticker reads: "Start Building Vote Reagan." The botto... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | A presidential political campaign meeting ticket for Ronald Reagan and George Bush, along with a drawing of an elephant wearing a sweater with the letter "... |
| Date: | 1984 |
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| Description: | One presidential political campaign poster for Ronald Reagan and George Bush. One side displays numerous photographs of groups of people around a large ima... |
| Date: | 07 11 1985 |
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| Description: | Several people, most of them women, dancing on a dance floor in front of a band on a stage. Caption reads: "CONCERTINA DANCING MUSIC — The woman outnumbere... |
| Date: | 01 15 1987 |
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| Description: | View looking out window at a man who is washing the window. Caption reads: "Edgar Gordon spreads cleanliness and happiness." Edgar William Gordon was a ... |
| Date: | 07 21 1980 |
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| Description: | View of several people marching and carrying signs, which read: "Milwaukee's Number 1 Home-Wr[ecker]," "We W[...] a Cle[...] And Sa[...] Place [...] Liv[..... |
| Date: | 02 20 1981 |
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| Description: | Several boys in hockey uniforms are walking outside an entrance holding signs, which read: "We are not asking for the state to support us, we are just aski... |
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