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Belle Case La Follette Addressing Farmers

Date: 1915
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...
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Quitting Time at McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of workers filing out of the gates of the McCormick Reaper Works at the end of a work day. The factory became part of the International Harve...
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Children and Adults Participating in Milwaukee Labor Day Parade

Date: 09 03 1945
Description: The 6th Ward Contingent represented a community on the march. Black men, women and children from the CIO and AF of L, from small business, brought a messa...
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Arrival of the "Spirit of St. Louis"

Date: 1928
Description: The landing of the "Spirit of St. Louis," carrying Charles Lindbergh.
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Lindbergh Returns, Madison

Date: 08 22 1927
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 ...
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Circus Performers and Airplane

Date: 1930
Description: A giant and other circus performers, including Harry and Daisy Earles, posing in front of a Midwest Air Transport airplane while a crowd is watching from b...
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Workers Leaving McCormick Works

Date: 09 20 1928
Description: Stream of factory workers leaving International Harvester's McCormick Works. A sign along the front of the factory reads: "'Quality is the Foundation of ou...
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Glenn Curtiss and Post

Date: 07 1910
Description: Airplane inventor Glenn Curtiss (with moustache), and his friend and fellow aviator Augustus Post, to his right. Although identified by Warner to 1909, it ...
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Brookins and Wright Airplane

Date: 07 1910
Description: Walter Brookins, a boyhood friend of the Wright Brothers, flying a Wright airplane over the ocean at Atlantic City. Brookins set numerous records for altit...
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Truck Wreck

Date: 06 22 1935
Description: A crowd of people viewing the remains of a Keystone Fuel & Material Co. truck after it was crushed by a Milwaukee Road train, near the Brittingham Park cro...
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C.W.A. Pay Station

Date: 12 09 1933
Description: Men crowd around the newly opened Dane County C.W.A. Pay Station at the corner of West Dayton and North Carroll Streets to pick up paychecks.
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C.W.A. Pay Station

Date: 12 09 1933
Description: Hundreds of men are crowded around the newly opened Dane County C.W.A. pay station, at the corner of West Dayton and North Carroll Streets.
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Railroad Employee Outing

Date: 08 26 1908
Description: Elevated view of the third annual outing of the employees of the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company (TMERL) at Waukesha Beach.
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Haymarket Square Rally

Date: 05 04 1886
Description: Photograph of an artistic rendering of a rally held at Haymarket Square on May 4, 1886, before the explosion of the bomb. Haymarket Square is at the Inters...
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Police Firing on Crowd Near McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 05 03 1886
Description: Photograph of a painting depicting police in a horse-drawn wagon firing into a crowd of striking workers near the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company fact...
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Haymarket Square Riot

Date: 05 04 1886
Description: Photograph of a painting depicting a confrontation between police and protesters at the Haymarket in Chicago. Smoke from an explosion drifts in the backgro...
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Allis-Chalmers Strike

Date: 1941
Description: View overlooking crowd of Allis-Chalmers employees on strike.
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Gisholt Company Picnic

Date: 08 06 1944
Description: War workers, families and friends of Gisholt Machine Company at the company picnic held at the Blooming Grove Firemen's Park on Monona Drive. There is a ca...
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Circus Wagon in Parade

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Description: Slightly elevated view over sidewalk towards eight horses drawing a circus wagon in parade. The parade is coming from the circus ground at the white pine g...
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Circus Wagon in Parade

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Description: Slightly elevated view of men driving a circus calliope for a parade in town. A calliope is a musical instrument that produces sound by sending steam throu...

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