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Crowd Watching Agricultural Extension Alfalfa Lecture

Date: 1913
Description: Farm children, families and other onlookers watch an alfalfa series lecture by J.H. Skinner of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department....
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Girl on International Motor Trucks Float

Date: 08 24 1927
Description: Little girl in a frilly dress posing with an umbrella while standing on a flower-covered parade float. The float is built around an International truck and...
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Farmall Demonstration at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 07 18 1933
Description: Two men are operating Farmall tractors and implements at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair. One tractor is pulling a disk harrow, and the other a cu...
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Bethany Orphans' Home

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Description: A view from across the front lawn of people gathered around the main building of Bethany Orphans' Home, built in 1898. A United States flag is on a pole on...
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United States Naval Training Station

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Description: A view of a formation of sailors during an exhibition drill at Naval Station Newport, established in 1883. A United States flag and military buildings stan...
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Playland -- The Bathing Beach

Date: 1928
Description: People sunbathe on the beach at Playland while others swim in the surf. A turreted building decorated with flags is in the background. Caption reads: "The...
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Alfred Hitchcock and Joel McCrea

Date: 1940
Description: Alfred Hitchcock and Joel McCrea stand on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent" with an unidentified woman wearing a rain poncho. Hitchcock and the w...
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Playing with a Wooden Horse

Date: 03 1910
Description: Anna Fox and Rosella as children playing with and on a sledge “drawn” by a wooden horse named Caesar.
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M.S. Kungsholm Dinner Menu

Date: 01 13 1934
Description: Handwritten menu and "Bon Voyage" greeting in a card from the Swedish American Line, with a Swedish castle on the cover, and on the inside of the card, a t...
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Outdoor Portrait of Florentina Krueger

Date: 09 1904
Description: Outdoor portrait of Florentina Krueger standing in a yard next to an ivy-covered wall among shrubs and plants. She is wearing a hat and holding an umbrella...
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Baseball Players Drinking from Large Bottles

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of four men wearing baseball uniforms standing and drinking from large bottles. A woman is in the distance standing and holding an u...
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Patriotic Parade in Black River Falls

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Description: View across unpaved street towards a group of women sitting in a decorated horse-drawn wagon for a parade, with other people in wagons in a line behind the...
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Blockade at Santo Domingo

Date: 1965
Description: View from rooftop of a blockaded street in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, seen from a U.S. Marine position. A large group of civilians, mainly women, s...
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Group Portrait of People at Teachers' Institute

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Description: Group portrait of students and faculty of the Teachers' Institute.
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Buttonhole Camera Negative 12

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Description: Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. Five of the images are of various young women, each posing alone in fro...
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Bird's-Eye View of Appleton, Wis.

Date: 1874
Description: Birds-eye view of Appleton Wisconsin. In the foreground are people fishing, strolling, and looking over the canal towards the Fox River. Streets and buildi...
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Dinosaur Entrant for UW Circus

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Description: Two men are standing on either side of a large costume of a six-legged dinosaur in front of the Armory on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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Dinosaur Entrant for UW Circus

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Description: Two men are standing on either side of a large costume of a six-legged dinosaur in front of the Armory on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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The Mobilization Period in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: A group of people on a sidewalk in Berlin during the mobilization period in August 1914. Extra editions of newspapers with the latest war news are being di...
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Film Crew

Date: 09 1971
Description: Three members of a film crew are posing together outdoors with their filming equipment. A man is standing on the far left with his arms crossed, and anothe...

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