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Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen McCabe

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Mary Ellen McCabe, 1954 Alice in Dairyland, enters State Fair Park in her official convertible, escorted by police officers on Harley-Davidson motorcycles ...
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Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen Jenks

Date: 09 02 1953
Description: Mary Ellen Jenks, the 1953 Alice in Dairyland, visits a Boy Scout camp, where she is surrounded by admiring scouts and a member of the navy.
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Band Member with Tuba

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Description: A man wearing a band uniform rests his hand on a tuba and poses for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop.
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Retiring Asssistant Fire Chief S.C.A. Ratcliffe

Date: 02 22 1949
Description: Assistant Fire Chief Sebastian C.A. Ratcliffe shaking hands with three fire fighters with whom he has teamed to fight many fires in Madison. The photograph...
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris Trameri, previously diagnosed with tuberculosis, reenacts being admitted to Lake View Sanatorium on July 9, 1947. Discussing her case are Dr. John K....
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Transtar Rose with ATA Roadeo Winners

Date: 1973
Description: Transtar Rose (a.k.a. Bonnie Nelson) poses with ATA Roadeo winners. Original caption reads: "Transtar Rose, known to drivers across America through Interna...
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Arrival at Barbados Airport

Date: 1969
Description: Three travelers stand at the pickup location for gate 4 at the Barbados Airport. On the back of the photograph they are identified as "Jim Hoge (editor of ...
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Boy Scouts Drum, Bugle Dinner

Date: 01 15 1958
Description: Two members of the Four Lakes Drum and Bugle Corps, Dean Sutherland and Steve Yamamoto, talk with Allen Plater and Dr. Wade Plater.
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Island Woman with Typewriter

Date: 08 24 1943
Description: An indigenous woman wearing a grass shirt sits on a carved boat with Robert Doyle on the shore of Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present d...
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Interior of Sad Shack

Date: 09 29 1943
Description: The interior of the "Sad Shack" at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. Two men are standing and two men are sitting in chairs. Personal items such as por...
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St. Martin's Band

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of the band of St. Martin's Catholic Church. The members pose with their instruments, which include clarinets, french horns, flugelh...
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Unconscious Woman

Date: 2012
Description: A woman is lying unconscious on the sidewalk, with two people at her side, on the corner of 4th & Pearl Streets. The Heavy Rescue fire truck has arrived wi...
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On the Bridge with the Captain

Date: 10 31 1930
Description: Alma Seipp Hay, second from right, and her husband, William Sherman Hay, third from left, join Commander C.W. Berndtson and other passengers on the bridge...
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Hannah Mrozak

Date: 08 16 2016
Description: Hannah Mrozak, a local Milwaukee singer, standing behind a podium while singing the national anthem. A man in a military uniform is standing on the left ho...
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Jackie Robinson and Rachel Robinson

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Description: Jackie Robinson, his wife Rachel Robinson, and a child, probably their son Jackie Robinson Jr. They are sitting in chairs on a baseball field during the ma...
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Singing at Shiloh Baptist Church

Date: 01 14 1974
Description: A woman choir member with a microphone and robe is singing at Shiloh Baptist Church. The Reverend Jesse Jackson delivered the sermon at this service.
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Chef Paul Golde

Date: 03 28 1956
Description: A man in a chef's uniform is preparing a row of shrimp along a cooked salmon on a platter. Caption reads: "A salmon dish decorated with shrimp by Chef Paul...
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Holiday Party

Date: 12 1939
Description: Members of the extended Brumder family sitting at the table in the dining room of the Herbert P. Brumder residence at 2030 East Lafayette Place. Two maids ...
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Reverend Monseigneur P. M. Abbelen

Date: 1890
Description: Oval-framed quarter-length portrait of Reverend Monseigneur Peter Matthias Abbelen, who was vicar general of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and later spirit...
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King Alfonso XII and Queen Maria de las Mercedes

Date: 1925
Description: Oval framed quarter-length profile carte-de-visite portrait of Alfonso XII and Maria de las Mercedes, the King and Queen of Spain.

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