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Villa Louis

Date: 1979
Description: Villa Louis, home of Hercules Dousman.
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Mickie's Dairy Bar

Date: 01 16 1979
Description: View across street towards a person entering Mickie's Dairy Bar in winter. The restaurant facade has signs advertising Coca-Cola, 7-Up, Royal Crown cola, a...
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Welcome Peace President Jimmy Carter

Date: 1979
Description: President Jimmy Carter's visit meant extra duty for the local police force. An elevated sign in the background reads "Newman High School, Welcome, Peace Pr...
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Out for Lunch

Date: 1979
Description: The driver helps a senior citizen board the bus after a lunch at the Medford Senior Center.
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Senior Bus

Date: 01 1979
Description: Bus operated by the Portage County Commission on Aging and its driver. The bus took senior citizens to lunch at the Senior Center and provided other servic...
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Main Street

Date: 01 1979
Description: "Theresa Main Street in midwinter."
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Snow Drifts

Date: 02 1979
Description: Winter scene with a car on Hwy. 41 near in Dodge Co., Wisconsin. Caption: "On a cold, windy day, snow drifts across Hwy 41."
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Widmer Cheese Factory Chimney

Date: 03 1979
Description: "Mason, Reuben Schuster, lays brick on the Widmer Cheese Factory chimney."
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1482 Pull-Type Axial-Flow Combine

Date: 1979
Description: Rear view of a 1482 pull-type axial-flow combine pulled by a 1086 tractor in a field. White clouds and blue sky are visible in the background.
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1470 Hillside Combine

Date: 1979
Description: Two men stand posing near the cab of a 1470 Hillside combine, behind them is a row of five combines in a field. There are two trucks and an automobile near...
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1470 Hillside Combine

Date: 1979
Description: Two men pose on the platform near the cab of a 1470 Hillside combine in a field.
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1470 Hillside Combine

Date: 1979
Description: Left side view of two men posing standing on a platform next to the cab of a 1470 Hillside combine in a field.
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1470 Hillside Combine

Date: 1979
Description: Man operating a 1470 Hillside combine across a hill in a field.
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The Statue of Liberty

Date: 1979
Description: View of the sunken Statue of Liberty created by legendary University of Wisconsin student Leon Varjian.
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Walking on Frozen Lake Mendota

Date: 01 02 1979
Description: Two younger men assisting an elderly woman as they are walking across a snowy, frozen Lake Mendota. Shoreline buildings off Langdon Street, including The E...
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Relaxing on Frozen Lake Mendota

Date: 01 02 1979
Description: A young man is enjoying an Old Milwaukee beer while sitting in a broken armchair on frozen Lake Mendota.
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Bill Toman and his Dog

Date: 12 17 1979
Description: Bill Toman playing with his dog, Little Niblet, on an icy walkway at Lake Mendota.
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Thornless Common Honeylocust

Date: 1979
Description: A winter view of a specimen of Gleditsia triacanthos inermis, judged to be the largest of its type in Wisconsin. The tree is standing next to the st...
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Basswood

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Tilia americana (Linden), judged in 1975 to be the largest of its species in Wisconsin, standing in a snowy landscape with smaller tre...
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Edward Hasselkus

Date: 1979
Description: Edward Hasselkus, University of Wisconsin professor of horticulture and curator of Longenecker Gardens at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum in Madison ...

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