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Eskimo Duck Dance

Date: 1930
Description: Eskimo duck dance to celebrate the spring hunt.
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Dow Chemical Demonstration

Date: 1967
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison students clash with riot police during campus demonstration to protest Dow Chemical involvement in the Vietnam conflict. He...
Photograph

Killing of Registre Gagnier

Date: 1940
Description: Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the Winnebago attack on the Gagnier homestead in 1827 and the killing of Registre Gagnier. The homestead w...
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Classroom Cave People

Date: 02 27 1984
Description: A sixth grade class dresses up as cave people to experience the likeness of living in pre-historic times.
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Family Cast

Date: 02 12 1963
Description: Six members of the same family form the complete cast of a library playhouse production that was to be televised.
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Renaissance Faire

Date: 1909
Description: A group of people dressed up in medieval-style clothing.
Print

Doomed Demons

Date: 1935
Description: "Doomed Demons" by Eustace L. Adams, part of the Air Combat Stories for Boys series published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1932 and 1946. The cover art is b...
Photograph

Wisconsin Air National Guard

Date: 1954
Description: A Wisconsin Air National Guard F-89 Scorpion at Truax Field. Armaments for this fighter included two air-to-air rockets capable of being armed with nuclear...
Historical Object

Monster Knife

Date: 1990
Description: A woman holds the monster knife and its sheath. Giant knife presented to John Fox Potter by Missouri Republicans after Potter's threatened duel with a Virg...
Photograph

Howard Hahn with a Shotgun

Date: 08 23 1932
Description: Howard Hahn, a young boy, holding the shotgun used to foil a kidnap attempt in rural Morrisonville.
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Military Ball Sabre Arch

Date: 04 15 1932
Description: Military ball sabre arch.
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On Watch

Date: 09 1958
Description: Silhouette of a guard patrolling while wearing a helmet and carrying a bayonet.
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Solomon Islands Men Standing on U.S. Marine Corps Truck

Date: 1943
Description: Men, natives of the Solomon Islands, standing on a U.S. Marine Corps truck made by International Harvester. Some of the men are holding rifles.
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Women Inspecting 37-Millimeter Shells

Date: 1942
Description: Factory workers at International Harvester's West Pullman Works inspecting 37-millimeter shells.
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New Female Employee Training

Date: 01 13 1941
Description: A group of new female factory workers receiving their first day of training at an International Harvester factory. The factory was responsible for making ...
Poster

Your Job Is Your Gun

Date: 1942
Description: Poster featuring illustrations of a worker chasing caricatures of a Japanese soldier (possibly Hideki Tojo) and Adolf Hitler, and a soldier firing a machin...
Poster

Your Tools Are Weapons

Date: 1942
Description: Poster showing a factory worker hitting a caricature of Adolf Hitler on the head with a tool. Includes the text: "Your tools are weapons... take care of th...
Poster

Both Are Weapons

Date: 1942
Description: Poster showing a tank and a tractor, with the text: "Both are weapons our farm and fighting forces depend on you." The poster was printed for the Labor-Man...
Photograph

Fred Bear and Deer

Date: 1941
Description: Bow-hunter Fred Bear poses with his bow and a deer carcass.
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Chapelle with Soldiers and Woman

Date: 1958
Description: Dickey Chapelle posing in Cuba with Major Antonio Lusson, and a group of male and female soldiers.

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