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Vince Lombardi at the Pro Football Writers Dinner

Date: 02 10 1969
Description: Green Bay Packers football coach, Vince Lombardi, being interviewed at the professional football writers dinner.
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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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Aldo Leopold

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Description: Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of...
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Homer Bigart

Date: 1948
Description: Homer Bigart, (1907-1991) award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times" with two unidentified individuals.
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Speidel and Milwaukee County Zoo Model

Date: 02 20 1954
Description: Zoo director George Speidel and members of the Milwaukee County Zoological society talking over plans for the new zoo while looking at a tentative model fo...
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Truck Driver Joseph Gonzalez in International DB-405 Truck

Date: 1963
Description: Truck driver Joseph Gonzalez in his International DB-405 Budweiser beer truck at the terminus of U.S. Highway 1. A sign in front of the truck reads "end of...
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Playing Cards

Date: 05 10 1955
Description: Members of a musician's union playing cards together.
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Waukesha Flying Club

Date: 05 25 1931
Description: The Waukesha Flying Club and their jointly owned Waco 10. The members are (row 1, left to right) Charles Gittner, Joe Rombough, and Roy Winzenreid and (row...
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International Truck Executives

Date: 1960
Description: Six International truck executives posed with model trucks on large globe at International Harvester's Fort Wayne Works.
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Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin

Date: 09 26 1951
Description: Wisconsin State Journal sports columnist, Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin and "character about town" relaxes on a park bench.
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 06 15 1948
Description: Curlee Seals, Jr. discussing plans for his 1949 Soap Box Derby racer with three members of the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce, Curlee's sponsor for the...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Officials

Date: 07 23 1949
Description: Soap Box Derby officials and judges for the 1949 derby are pictured in a group portrait. Left to right, they are John Hubbins, cashier of the American Exch...
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Earl Oakey

Date: 08 05 1949
Description: Portrait of Earl Oakey, a ticket taker at Breese Stevens Field for nearly twenty-five years.
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Korean War Opinion Poll

Date: 06 27 1950
Description: Journalist John Prindle, right, conducting an on-the-street interview with W.H. Kelly, a sporting goods dealer and Navy veteran, about his opinions on the ...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Winner

Date: 08 02 1950
Description: Jerry Wagner of Mineral Point accepts a check from Harlan C. Nicholls, a cashier at the First National Bank of Madison, for the sportsmanship award of the ...
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Man Holding Slipover Bowling Shoe

Date: 04 10 1945
Description: A man, possibly inventor Leo Kay, holding a slipover bowling shoe, which attaches to a regular street shoe.
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Ledgeview Lanes — Interior

Date: 05 29 1998
Description: "Jen Hillbert serves us food at Ledgeview Lanes. Perch are $7.95. We vote them 4.3 Stars." Left to right; Rudy Heinecke, Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, Kay Hren, C...
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Hillcrest Inn — Interior

Date: 11 02 2001
Description: "Our waitresses at The Hillcrest Inn, are Faye (seated) and Beth (standing).
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Woman and Very Tall Man

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Description: A young woman and a very tall man stand together in front of the cookhouse wagon. She is holding a bottle of soda and offering him a hotdog; he has his arm...
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Local Boilermakers and Helpers

Date: 1914
Description: Boilermakers and their helpers pose on and around a horse-drawn wagon that bears a sign that reads "Boiler-makers and Helpers," perhaps for a parade. Man o...

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