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African American Tenant Farmers at Barbecue

Date: 02 22 1915
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...
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Barrel Race on the Lake

Date: 06 26 1909
Description: Two men paddle barrels with their hands and feet while a third tips over on Pewaukee Lake at the Waukesha Beach recreation area. Other people watch both f...
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Gisholt Picnic

Date: 08 06 1944
Description: Five speakers at the Gisholt Machine Company picnic, taken at the Blooming Grove carnival grounds. Left to right: Marion "Red" Borland, president of Gishol...
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Panoramic Group Portrait, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Staff

Date: 08 27 1921
Description: Panoramic group portrait of Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad Staff Annual Picnic in Prospect Park.
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Harvester Club Picnic

Date: 07 22 1922
Description: A young boy holding a baseball bat at a Harvester Club picnic.
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Packinghouse Picnic

Date: 1953
Description: Children playing outdoors at the Packinghouse Workers summer picnic.
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Picnic of Dane County Farmers

Date: 09 07 1900
Description: View of a crowd in Grosnick's Woods during a picnic of the farmers of Dane County.
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Large Group of People Posing Outdoors

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Description: View down slope towards a large group of men, women, and children posing sitting and standing in a wooded field in front of a traveling photographer's wago...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 615-622

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Description: An unhappy majority
some of whom voted for frivolous reasons
reflected the north/south split

In their nascent paranoia, they preached their vi...
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Hoof Care Demonstration

Date: 06 28 1932
Description: J.C. Nisbet, an editor at Hoard's Dairyman magazine, uses a rasp to trim a calf's hoof as part of his demonstration at the Walworth County 4-H Club ...
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Portrait at the Barbecue

Date: 1919
Description: Posed outdoor group portrait, with cooks, at a policemen's picnic or barbecue.
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We Saw You . . . at Carrier Boys' Picnic

Date: 06 30 1954
Description: Madison Newspaper, Inc, hosts a picnic for newspaper carriers as a special recognition to the boys, each an individual businessman, who carry the papers in...
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We Saw You . . . at Carrier Boys' Picnic

Date: 06 29 1954
Description: Madison Newspaper, Inc. hosts a picnic for special recognition to newspaper carriers, each an individual businessman, who carry the papers in any weather. ...

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