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| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
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| Description: | Illustration of three Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians gathering wild rice into a canoe. |
| Date: | 09 02 1954 |
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| Description: | A group of newly naturalized citizens registering to vote at City Hall. |
| Date: | 08 12 1932 |
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| Description: | RKO motion picture actress Raquel Torres christening the new model airplane manufactured in Madison by Orland Corben. Corben had flown the airplane that br... |
| Date: | 07 15 1911 |
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| Description: | Christening ceremony for the S.S. Harvester. The ship was built for the Wisconsin Steel Company, a subsidiary of International Harvester. The 545-fo... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Scene from Drake Expedition on coast of California, ca. 1579. Francis Drake on the Coast of New Albion, California. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | "St. Anthony Falls" photographed during the "Norwegian Lutheran Synod held at Minneapolis, Minn., 1875," as listed in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopi... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Indian village, along a river, (in a painted reconstruction) during an Indian ceremony. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of an unidentified ceremony taking place at the public square on the steps of the original Waupaca County Courthouse. |
| Date: | 05 29 1931 |
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| Description: | A large numbers of cars are shown parked at Peninsula State Park during the reburial ceremony for Potawatomi Chief Simon Onanguisse Kahquados. A crowd of p... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Ceremonial performers in traditional Indian costume pose near a steamboat. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Spring Bank monastery. Man kneeling in from of one of the Stations of the Cross. This is probably part of the Cistercian monastery. Caption reads: "Station... |
| Date: | 10 17 1961 |
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| Description: | Governor Gaylord Nelson with local civic leaders at the dedication of a portion of Interstate Highway I-90. Congressman Robert Kastenmeier is standing at t... |
| Date: | 10 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Dedication ceremony for a section of Interstate Highway I-90 near the Wisconsin Dells, with a group of Native Americans watching from above. A Dells Fargo ... |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers as a golden stake is driven as a part of a ceremony to celebrate the completion of the Tanana Valley Railroad. Caption reads: "Driving Gold... |
| Date: | 07 04 1917 |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers for the dedication of the flag pole at Mitchell Park. The conservatory is in the background. |
| Date: | 04 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's new racing shell, the Mendota, receives the champagne bottle from sponsor Mrs. Harry (Mary) Stuhldreher in the christening ceremony on t... |
| Date: | 05 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's Chairman of the State Highway Commission, James R. Law (left), greeting Secretary of the Interior, Julius A. Krug and his wife and son. They ar... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Chippewa (Ojibwa) man at Bad River Indian Reservation. |
| Date: | 08 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, at left, christens the "Northliner Alice in Dairyland" with a bottle of milk at the Madison municipal airport, with N... |
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