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Date: | 1884 |
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Description: | View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Belle Case La Follette, wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing a group of farmers during a tour on the Chautauqua circuit during which she frequent... |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | The landing of the "Spirit of St. Louis," carrying Charles Lindbergh. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery. |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | Standing atop a special vehicle fitted with a body built to resemble a camera, Taylor found the ideal vantage point from which to cover a news event. The c... |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Workmen stand atop and in front of the remnants of the last remaining wing, the North Wing, of the third Wisconsin State Capitol building. |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Workmen posing on the partially demolished dome of the third Wisconsin State Capitol, together with the hoist used for removing salvaged materials. This d... |
Date: | 08 22 1927 |
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Description: | Crowd greeting the "Spirit of St. Louis" when Charles Lindbergh flew to Madison on August 22, 1927. The crowd at Pennco Field (Royal Airport)was so large ... |
Date: | 08 22 1927 |
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Description: | Charles Lindbergh landing the Spirit of St. Louis, a Ryan NYP at Pennco Field (Royal Airport). This stop was one of only two appearances made in Wis... |
Date: | 02 27 1930 |
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Description: | Six men posing with the first trackless trolley. Wisconsin Valley Electric Company #4. |
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Description: | Bartender couple pose behind bar at Rose's Bright Spot on Highway 35, south of Fountain City. |
Date: | 10 30 1968 |
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Description: | Three children, dressed up in homemade astronaut costumes for Halloween. One clever parent has made good use of a football helmet! |
Date: | 1933 |
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Description: | Cutters from the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America union picket a Reed Brothers Company lockout. |
Date: | 07 1914 |
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Description: | Starting to raise "Wisconsin" statue onto the dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol (the fourth State Capitol, the third in Madison, 1906 - ). The gilded bro... |
Date: | 08 1907 |
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Description: | The dismantling of the dome of the third Wisconsin State Capitol began with the removal of the 32-foot flagpole. The eagle at the top of the pole was an 18... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Arthur Pratt Warner, Wisconsin's first aviator, in front of the office of the Warner Instrument Company in Beloit. Warner, who held the patent for an autom... |
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Description: | Streetcar conductors pose next to street car #109 on the Oshkosh/Omro line, with the H.C. Roenitz wholesale shoe and rubber company warehouse in the backgr... |
Date: | 10 1869 |
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Description: | The second Wisconsin State Capitol dome under construction, showing the workmen and the equipment they used to hoist construction materials into place. |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Close-up of the demolition of the dome of the Third Capitol, one of the few known photographs that permits such close observation of the architectural deta... |
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