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| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Susan B. Anthony (standing), with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, five years after completion of their three-volume work entitled "History of Woman Suf... |
| Date: | 04 01 1915 |
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| Description: | Old man wearing a suit and hat with his back against a brick wall. The man is likely an employee at International Harvester's Osborne Works. One of his leg... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Orville Wright inscribed to aviation publicist and historian Harry Bruno, whose collection of papers and photographs is housed at the Wisconsin... |
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| Description: | An autographed portrait of Thomas S. Baldwin, builder of the early "Red Devil" airplanes and the first dirigible purchased by the U.S. Army. |
| Date: | 12 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Walter S. Goodland sitting at his desk in the Capitol with pipe in hand. |
| Date: | 02 06 1934 |
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| Description: | Older woman laundry worker folding items at a table in front of industrial laundry equipment, in the laundry at Madison General Hospital. |
| Date: | 09 08 1956 |
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| Description: | Butcher Herman Nimmer positions his hand saw to cut a slab of meat. |
| Date: | 06 1971 |
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| Description: | Barber Mike Godsell sitting back and relaxing in his shop. |
| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Mary Hawkins, assisted by Thorwald Anderson, Checker Cab driver, arrives for a Thanksgiving dinner served by the Volunteers of America to 56 members of its... |
| Date: | 02 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of John Simpson, who after an absence of several weeks caused by a broken hip suffered by a fall early in December, returned to Muller-Simpson Co.... |
| Date: | 05 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Evan M. Hughes, 68, a war-time replacement as doorman at the Capitol Theatre. Mr. Hughes had a son, Pvt. Robert E. Hughes, who was a prisoner of war by the... |
| Date: | 11 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Miss Ellen C. Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Downer College, on her 95th birthday. Miss Sabin was one of America's most eminent woman in the field o... |
| Date: | 02 19 1947 |
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| Description: | Robert E. Guild, Madison native, Milwaukee Railroad engineer, and Holyoke, Colorado, movie theater operator from 1916 to 1939. |
| Date: | 08 03 1916 |
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| Description: | A man in worn overalls and a dark cap is standing outside a brick building. The man is most likely a factory worker at International Harvester's McCormick ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Postmistress Mrs. Lathrop poses next to Harold Russell's airplane. This plane was the first to land on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Daniel Steele Durrie (1819-1892), American librarian. Durrie served as the librarian for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (now the Wi... |
| Date: | 04 01 1948 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Charles F. Kirwin taken on his 83rd birthday. He was employed by the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific Railroad for 56 years. |
| Date: | 05 24 1948 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Ferdinand Heim, long-time resident of rural Middleton. |
| Date: | 12 23 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Craig Ralston, Madison-based State Capitol reporter for the Milwaukee Journal. News article includes his memories of the Robert La Folle... |
| Date: | 01 27 1949 |
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| Description: | August F. Klitzman, elevator operator at the Dane County Courthouse, at the controls in the elevator. |
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