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| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Seaman 1st class Tom Teeley with newsboy, Bernard Ehrmann, holding a copy of the Wisconsin State Journal with headline declaring peace in the Pacific. Cele... |
| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of bar and crowd in Fauerbach Brewing Co. tavern at 651 Williamson Street, celebrating the end of Prohibition. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Maypole dancers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Bascom Hill (Main Hill). In the foreground is the Lincoln Monument. In the distance is the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 08 17 1936 |
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| Description: | Neils Ruud, 824 E. Dayton Street, receiving the first unemployment compensation check issued in Wisconsin from Voyta Wrabetz, chairman of the state industr... |
| Date: | 05 1916 |
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| Description: | A view looking down on the Maypole Dance at the May Fete on Bascom Hill, showing dancers around four different Maypoles. In the foreground is the Lincoln M... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Large group at Syttende Mai celebration. Group posing with what may be the national and merchant flag of Norway flag. A number of people are holding croque... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | The west wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol on Decoration Day. The steep slope of the western side of the park delayed the construction of the east ... |
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| Description: | A man gives a little girl balloons that say "Jobs With Justice". |
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| Description: | Group of people listening to a speech at a labor day picnic. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | View of a ceremony in which an oil portrait of University of Wisconsin pharmacist Edward Kremers was unveiled. Pictured are (right to left): Nellie Wakeman... |
| Date: | 06 14 1940 |
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| Description: | Boy Scouts and others recite the Pledge of Allegiance during Madison's first public Flag Day ceremony held at the UW football stadium. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The ceremony marking the first Wisconsin Central Airlines flight at Madison. Margaret "Mickey" Morey, the wife of Howard Morey, is about to cut the ribbon.... |
| Date: | 01 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Kresge $1.00 Store, located at 13 South Pinckney Street, with a window display of Valentine cards and folders. |
| Date: | 12 28 1934 |
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| Description: | "Miss 1935," one-year-old Lois Ann Endres, daughter of Emil and Berniece Endres, 534 W. Mifflin Street, standing in an overstuffed chair wearing top hat an... |
| Date: | 07 20 1932 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of women at Nakoma Golf Course on Guest Day. |
| Date: | 10 14 1931 |
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| Description: | A group of women representing Disabled American Veterans posing with Mayor Albert G. Schmedeman and a plaque proclaiming Forget-Me-Not Day. |
| Date: | 10 18 1930 |
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| Description: | Chi Phi House, 200 Langdon Street, with the facade decorated as a theater with a marquee for homecoming. "See the Badgers in 'Smashing Pennsylvania.'" 1st ... |
| Date: | 05 17 1870 |
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| Description: | A large group, mainly men, are gathered behind the "Lake City Cornet Band" who are in uniform near a lake shore, possibly Lake Monona. The card was marked ... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Four young women blowing on noise makers, with other people watching, celebrating V-J Day, August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allies announced the surre... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Crowds at the corner of East Mifflin Street and North Pinckney Street on V-J Day, August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of J... |
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