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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The landing of the "Spirit of St. Louis," carrying Charles Lindbergh. |
| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| Description: | African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Wilbur Wright, in profile, with a Wright Flyer. The original photographic postcard from which this image was copied was presented by Wright to pioneer avia... |
| Date: | 12 09 1933 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 05 16 1963 |
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| Description: | President John F. Kennedy meeting with delegates to the Amalgamated Meat Cutter and Butcher Workers Union in the White House rose garden. The labor leader... |
| Date: | 05 16 1963 |
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| Description: | President John F. Kennedy greets members of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers union who were in the capitol for a COPE conference. |
| Date: | 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, speaking at a ground-breaking ceremony. |
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| Description: | A group of striking workers march together carrying signs near a railroad crossing. |
| Date: | 06 18 1918 |
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| Description: | Dedication ceremony for Muir Knoll on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Judge Milton S. Griswold is speaking at flag-draped podium, and a ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd of people gathered around a booth on Joe Wing's farm to eat during an alfalfa presentation. A sign on the booth reads, "Served by ... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Poster commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the invention of the reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick (reaper centennial). The poster features a color repro... |
| Date: | 10 20 1946 |
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| Description: | Outdoor rally of Allis-Chalmers workers. A man is speaking into a microphone in the front and people stand on the sidewalk and the grassy rise in the backg... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Congressman David Obey introduces a local resident (back to camera), to President Jimmy Carter. Many photographers stand around the edge of the group and a... |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | Visitors at the dedication of the Korean War Veterans Memorial of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 01 1969 |
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| Description: | A snowmobile rider long-jumps at the Eagle River Snowmobile Derby. According to the notes in the photograph album, this was the "world record long jump." T... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large crowd of women, men and children gathered outside in the snow in front of the Winnebago County School of Agriculture and Domestic ... |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Stratcom action photo, with several protesters kneeling behind a line with soldiers on the other side. In the background are a fence, missile, rocket and t... |
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| Description: | "Testing of First Reaper at Steele's Tavern." Second version illustrating occasion. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Copy of chromolithograph of the testing of the first reaping machine at Steele's Tavern, W. Virginia." The scene includes racist depictions of enslaved Afr... |
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