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| Date: | 08 05 1952 |
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| Description: | The portrait shows "attractive, blue-eyed Mary Cassidy, one of the topnotch players in Madison's feminine softball league." She was employed as a bookkeepe... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Eight page holiday card. The inside four pages are shorter and narrower, jogged to the top. Four views are shown. On the front is a "Boss," sitting at his ... |
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| Description: | Two-sided playing card used for advertising by magician Howard Thurston (d. 1936), arguably the greatest magician of his day. The reverse side of the card ... |
| Date: | 07 13 1946 |
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| Description: | Part of a United Public Workers parade/demonstration on a downtown city street. A horse-drawn wagon carries some participants. Parade signs read "No Swivel... |
| Date: | 10 1947 |
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| Description: | Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring a color illustration of a Model KBR-11 truck-tractor with semi-trailer. Includes the text: "Winter Tr... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A boy wearing a white short-sleeved t-shirt and dark pants is barefoot and standing to the left of a communal shower hut for migrant farm workers in a Waut... |
| Date: | 08 03 1956 |
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| Description: | Six children and an adult posing in front of the Wisconsin State Journal newspaper office at 115 South Carroll Street. The children had put on a nei... |
| Date: | 08 30 1956 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of children from the Shorewood Hills play school who put on a carnival with the proceeds going to "Roundy's Fun Fund." With them is Joseph L... |
| Date: | 08 17 1892 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd gathered at the intersection of First and Main Streets to watch a calliope and chariot riders in a circus parade, probably the Ringl... |
| Date: | 08 17 1892 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd gathered at the intersection of First and Main Streets to watch a bell wagon pass in a circus parade, probably the Ringling Brothe... |
| Date: | 06 30 1959 |
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| Description: | A group of kids is shown with "Roundy" Coughlin. They put on a carnival in the back yard of Jim Riphahn on Madison's east side to raise money for "Roundy's... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Second page of calendar for March and April, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one is of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvesting ... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Third page of calendar for May and June, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvesting machine... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Fifth page of calendar for September and October, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvestin... |
| Date: | 05 02 1961 |
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| Description: | Two small girls, one holding a toy, modeling spring dresses and shoes in preparation for the spring style show. The Opti-Mrs. Club of Middleton sponsored t... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Illustration of two men using a Hussey Grain Cutter in a field. One man is riding on the grain cutter, and another man is riding on one of two horses pulli... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Front cover featuring a color illustration of two boys with fishing poles. One byu is wearing a hat and the other boy is holding a hat. In the background m... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The front cover features a color illustration of a man and woman relaxing near a lake or river. The woman is sitting on a chair under an umbrella painting ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Advertisement from catalog featuring an illustration of the Jones Chain Mower, and a man using it in a field with a team of horses. Around the border are i... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Catalog for Champion binders, reapers and mowers. Features a color illustration across front and back covers. In the center are two boys standing and peeri... |
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