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Wisconsin - Iowa Football Game

Date: 11 17 1951
Description: The fathers of Wisconsin football players (wearing the same numbers as their sons) lined up on the field for pre-game ceremonies before the "Dad's Day" gam...
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 07 01 1952
Description: Alvin Boss, owner of Boss Pattern and Model Works, poses with his son Dick who is seated in the soap box derby racer he will race in the upcoming race.
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NOEL

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Description: Photographic holiday card of an African American family posed over an image of three dimensional letters that read: "NOEL." The letters are slanting from u...
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Flight Nurse with Her Father

Date: 1943
Description: Flight nurse Gwen Jensen is posing with her father, during her last hours before leaving U.S. soil at Alameda Navy Landing Strip. She is sitting close to h...
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Father-Son Banquet

Date: 03 07 1958
Description: Marvin Reimann, left, makes out a registration tag with Loren Wedel, right, and his two sons, Douglas and Billy, while attending the father-son banquet at ...
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Eagle Scout Presentation

Date: 02 12 1961
Description: Ernest N. Wackwitz, Sr., scoutmaster of troop sixteen at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, pins an Eagle Scout badge on his son Ernest (Bud) Wackwitz, Jr....
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Four Lakes Council Boy Scouts Circus

Date: 04 15 1961
Description: 1,500 Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Explorer Scouts and their adult volunteers in the Four Lakes Council participated in circus performances at the Dane County F...
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Muskie

Date: 07 01 1938
Description: Seven-year-old Russell Jefferson, right, is standing holding his rod and reel next to his father, Dan Jefferson. Dan is holding the 38 pound, 6 ounce muski...
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Cub Scout Pack Picnic at Hoyt Park

Date: 06 04 1957
Description: Boy Scout John Carrier has earned many badges and awards and is a hero to the Cub Scouts admiring his badges. He is a student at Wisconsin High School. His...
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Interior of Hardware Store and Post Office

Date: 1911
Description: Two men posing in the interior of the Franklin Hardware Company and Eland Post Office. Jerome Francis Franklin Jr. is on the left, Jerome Francis Franklin ...
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Jerome Francis Franklin, Sr. and Family

Date: 1916
Description: The extended Franklin family posing in front of a store (possibly the family owned Drug Store or Hardware Store) with messages wishing Perry Small Franklin...
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Family of Squatters

Date: 1972
Description: A family of squatters standing in front of a shack, in a camp outside of Santiago, Chile. The father is holding a child in his arms and the mother is stand...

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