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Coeds Model in front of Langdon Hall

Date: 08 13 1940
Description: Two Manchester's Department Store coed models, wearing dresses, hats and purses, posing on the steps of Langdon Hall, 633 Langdon Street.
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Marx Family Group Portrait

Date: 09 19 1928
Description: Marx family portrait, view 1, taken for Sam Marx.
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Washing Windows

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground.
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Sture and Geneva Johnson Residence

Date: 06 28 1955
Description: Geneva Johnson sits in the sunroom of her contemporary home at 313 New Castle Way in Maple Bluff. Her home will be featured on a July 14 Tour of Homes spon...
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Elizabeth Johnson and Hobart Johnson

Date: 08 13 1945
Description: Elizabeth Johnson and Hobart Johnson. Elizabeth will be attending the Potter School in Tucson, Arizona. Hobart will return to the Middlesex School in Conco...
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Boys and Toy Airplane

Date: 1920
Description: Reginald Jackson, Jr., of Madison, holding the toy airplane, and a group of friends, all of whom are wearing short pants, sitting on the windowsill in fron...
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Organist of Bok Singing Tower

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Description: A man sits on a wooden bench at Bok Singing Tower to play the bells. The building was designed by Milton B. Bedary and was completed in 1929.
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Black Out Curtains

Date: 1942
Description: Publicity photograph of a woman hanging blackout curtains, with the assistance of her young daughter. The photograph was taken to provide illustration for ...
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Family with Pets and Dead Fox

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Description: A family poses outdoors in the snow in front of their house. The father proudly holds a dead fox. The mother and youngest child stand on the left, and the ...
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Four Boys in Costumes

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Description: Four boys dressed in Indian costumes sit in a row on the concrete steps to a large porch of a house. A woman wearing an apron is standing on the porch on t...
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Arbutus Inn and Original Snowmobile Hall of Fame

Date: 05 1972
Description: Spring scene on Wall Street. The building is the Arbutus Inn, hotel, bar and dining room. It was also the original Snowmobile Hall of Fame. Two boys are st...
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Cafe Campaign

Date: 10 1992
Description: Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin campaigning in a cafe on Highway 29. With Obey is State Representative, Tom Springer.
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IH Polka Dot Scout

Date: 1967
Description: Two women pose with an International Scout decorated in polka dots. The Scout is parked outdoors near a pool at what appears to be a motel or hotel.
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Clerk Sitting at Desk at Osborne Works

Date: 08 04 1913
Description: A man wearing glasses is seated at a cluttered wooden desk at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). Behind him are file dr...
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Four Men Shaking Hands

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Description: Four men are standing at the entrance of what appears to be the Denniston Hotel. The two pairs of men are smiling as they shake hands. Three of them are we...
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Solar Home Centerspread

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Description: Center spread of a 12 page booklet named "Homes for tomorrow's happy living." The illustration is of a father, seated on the ground, and a mother, seated i...
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Students with Flag

Date: 1932
Description: The students at Strawberry School pose in front of the school building. The youngest students, in front, hold an American flag. There are curtains and a pa...
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Advance Registration for U.W. Freshmen

Date: 07 29 1959
Description: Joy Justesen of Sun Prairie poses in her room in the University's new dormitory, Chadbourne Hall, as she participates in the advance registration process f...
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Woman Working in Insurance Office

Date: 11 19 1927
Description: Young woman sitting at a typewriter, presumably a staff employee, in the office of the Indiana Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.
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Studio Portrait of European American Children

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of three unidentified European American girls posing standing outdoors on a wooden sidewalk in front of a wooden building and door. ...

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