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| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A benefit gathering at James Rector People's Park to support the United Farmworkers (UFW) grape boycott. The UFW sign, with its eagle symbol, posted in th... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Schlitz Park Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with halftone views of the park gateway and a two-story open-air pavilion with an overlook,... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Prospective buyers examine artwork at an art fair at City Park. |
| Date: | 09 07 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a crowd in Grosnick's Woods during a picnic of the farmers of Dane County. |
| Date: | 06 28 1932 |
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| Description: | J.C. Nisbet (center), an editor of Hoard's Dairyman magazine, addresses a crowd of men, women and children at the Walworth County 4-H Club Picnic at... |
| Date: | 03 28 1960 |
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| Description: | While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ... |
| Date: | 06 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Madison Newspaper, Inc. hosts a picnic to recognize newspaper carriers, each an individual businessman, who carry the papers in any kind of weather. Gregor... |
| Date: | 02 03 1956 |
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| Description: | Hill captain Werner Schorr smooths snow near the base of the ski jump scaffold during the Blackhawk Ski Club's annual jumping tournament at their Tomahawk ... |
| Date: | 02 03 1956 |
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| Description: | Moritz Schorr spreads cinders on the slippery steps of the ski jump scaffold during the Blackhawk Ski Club's annual jumping tournament at their Tomahawk Ri... |
| Date: | 03 12 2011 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large crowd gathered on the Capitol Square to protest the passage of the Act 10 bill and greet the return of the 14 Senate Democrats who... |
| Date: | 06 19 1925 |
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| Description: | Man sitting in a delivery truck near a park. There is no driver's side door, but there is a rolled-up cloth at the top of the door. The truck bed is open. ... |
| Date: | 04 29 1927 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a moving van parked along a curb. In the background is a park and houses. The sign painted on the side of the van reads: "Wissma... |
| Date: | 03 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men in work clothes are bending over a box they are constructing from slab wood near Lake Menomin. There is snow on the ground and a park shelter in th... |
| Date: | 08 31 1927 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a C.R. Gas Co. truck. Pipes are on a rack alongside the bed of the truck. |
| Date: | 07 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Locktender Earl Wood swinging open the heavy lock gate for a speedboat operator passing through the lock on the Yahara River at Tenney Park. A sign above t... |
| Date: | 06 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Swimming instructor Ann Sundt checking on swimmers in the shallow water at the Vilas Park Beach. |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal carriers Lloyd Briggs and Harold Joyce attacking a volley ball at Blue Mounds State Park. The partially obscured boy is unid... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Nineteen Wisconsin State Journal carrier boys at the Blue Mounds State Park swimming pool. Some are shown diving off a platform named for the previo... |
| Date: | 04 24 1957 |
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| Description: | A city parks department worker helps with the spring clean-up by raking the lawn at Brittingham Park beside Monona Bay. |
| Date: | 06 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Lifeguard Nancy Thomsen (5524 Lake Mendota Drive) warns a youngster not to go into deep water at the Tenney Park beach on the official opening day for the ... |
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