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| Date: | 09 06 1988 |
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| Description: | A woman overlooks the Labor-at-the-Lakefront festival next to a banner that reads "Buy Union," "Buy Made in USA," and "Keep the Heart of America Beating." |
| Date: | 09 06 1988 |
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| Description: | A young girl listens to a speech at the Racine Laborfest. She holds a balloon imprinted with the slogan, "Buy Union Buy American." |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Fred Boyle, clerk at the post office, looks overwhelmed surrounded by a mountain of Christmas parcels to be sorted for shipment overseas to men and women i... |
| Date: | 08 1928 |
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| Description: | John P. Wood of Wausau, winner of the 1928 National Air Reliability Tour, with his "Waco from Wausau." Also in the photograph are Wood's prizes: the Edsel ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | The winner of the Goodyear Trophy, Steve Wittman of Oshkosh (on the right) with pilot William Brennand (holding the trophy). With them are Paul Litchfield ... |
| Date: | 05 06 1934 |
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| Description: | Pilot Orland G. Corben accepts the winner's trophy at the Kroger Air Show in Madison from Kroger Manager D.V. McPeek. Also in the photograph is Tommy Hain... |
| Date: | 12 03 1930 |
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| Description: | Alexander Legge (1866-1933) sitting with Miss Florence Melchert, an "entertainment" provided by International Harvester for 4-H Club delegates. Miss Melch... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A souvenir postcard from the 1935 National Model Airplane Championship that featured illustrations of racing planes powered by Shell aviation gasoline such... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of a female model posing with a Spirit of '76 Cadet lawn tractor. The tractor was meant to commemorate the bicentennial of the... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph for International Spirit of '76 Cadet lawn tractor featuring a model dressed as Betsy Ross sewing stars onto a U.S. flag. The ... |
| Date: | 04 16 1972 |
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| Description: | The Apollo 16 flight crew and backup crew at the breakfast served four hours before launch. With them, seated on the right side of the table and pointing, ... |
| Date: | 02 20 1969 |
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| Description: | Astronaut James A. Lovell accepting a gift of cheese from Wisconsin Governor Warren P. Knowles during a gathering in Lovell's honor. A model of the Apollo ... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
| Date: | 12 1884 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for R. Hornsby & Sons, Ltd., manufacturers of agricultural implements. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustr... |
| Date: | 07 07 1983 |
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| Description: | John Fitzsimmons and Barton Voegeli take a break from discing the fields to eat the birthday cake that Voegeli's wife made to celebrate the occasion. |
| Date: | 08 28 1960 |
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| Description: | An insurance executive carries on with work after he was hit by a car, dictating letters to his secretary from his hospital bed, with his leg in traction. |
| Date: | 04 12 1930 |
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| Description: | Cyrus McCormick III riding the 100,000th Farmall tractor off the Farmall Works assembly line. The tractor was painted silver to mark the occasion. At the f... |
| Date: | 04 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Power & Light Company banquet for Veteran employees at the Hotel Loraine. |
| Date: | 12 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of ten employees of the Rennebohm's drugstore #12 at 2526 Monroe Street, posed at a Christmas party with Santa Claus. |
| Date: | 01 25 1944 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of those in attendence at a dinner to honor 14 retiring employees of the Division of Buildings and Grounds of the Wisconsin Bureau of Engine... |
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