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Farmer Making Soap

Date: 1910
Description: The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T...
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright

Date: 1936
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna, seated together reading in a bedroom at Taliesin. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin...
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Wedding Day Car Problems

Date: 06 08 1963
Description: Bride and groom wait in the open convertible that is their transportation to their reception while a mechanic works under the hood.
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Farm Wife Brings Lunch to Her Husband in the Field

Date: 1970
Description: Ingrid Bengtson bringing lunch to the field to help her husband, Norman, get the planting done faster. They are having lunch on top of the McCormick Intern...
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International Harvester Agent in Japan

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Description: Mr. Asai and a woman (his wife?) standing on a rock. Mr. Asai was an International Harvester Company agent in Japan.
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Addison and Sarah White's Home

Date: 1876
Description: Riley, Springdale Township, Dane Co. Four men and four women around a table in yard in front of two-story Greek Revival frame house with a Madison Mutual s...
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Iver B. Lund and Wife

Date: 1876
Description: Half of a double portrait of Ever or Iver B. Lund and wife, of Blue Mounds, Blue Valley. He was a tailor by trade. Note his withered left leg.
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Mr. and Mrs. Kapec with Strawberries

Date: 06 26 1955
Description: Local fruit farmers Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kapec, Route 2, Madison, display a crate of home grown strawberries the size of golf balls.
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Swimming Safety

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Private Fred Schneider and wife with crowd in the water at a beach.
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Lovell and Laird

Date: 04 04 1969
Description: Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird of Wisconsin (on the far right) with astronaut James Lovell, a former student at the University of Wisconsin, and his wif...
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The Sowerbys with a Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Chester Sowerby is sitting on a Farmall H tractor while her husband is standing in the field beside her. The original caption reads: "Mrs. Chester Sow...
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Edwards Truck Line Owners

Date: 1935
Description: Dorothy Edwards sits at a desk while her husband, H.L. Edwards, stands beside her. The couple were operators of Edwards Truck Line and owned six Internatio...
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Rommelfanger 61st Wedding Anniversary

Date: 08 17 1949
Description: Peter and Mary Rommelfanger observe their 61st wedding anniversary. Mr. Rommelfanger is a retired employee of the Chicago and North Western Railroad.
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Blackhawk Country Club Gay 90's Party

Date: 07 22 1953
Description: Portraying Diamond Jim Brady and Diamond Lil at the Blackhawk Country Club Gay 90's party are Robert and Harriet Narowetz. They are being served a drink by...
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Junior Division of the University League

Date: 08 27 1953
Description: U.W. chemistry professor M. Leslie Holt and his wife Gretchan check the proofs of a new book for which he is an assistant editor. Gretchan is in charge of ...
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Potato Field

Date: 09 28 1948
Description: "Ben & Catherine Adelmeyer tend their potato crop in a field that abutted Henni & Wisconsin Streets."
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Madison Authors

Date: 04 28 1956
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Cockefair sit for a portrait while holding the book "The Story of You" that they authored.
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Laird's Office

Date: 2008
Description: Former Wisconsin congressman and defense secretary Melvin Laird seated at the replica of his former offices built by the Marshfield Clinic as part of the L...
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University League Scholarship Tea

Date: 03 12 1957
Description: The original caption states: "Lynn Honeck, seated rear (right), wife of Wisconsin's new attorney general and a former professional model, is shown giving s...
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Women's Auxiliary to the Dane County Bar Association

Date: 01 03 1958
Description: Plans are being completed for the organization of a Women's Auxiliary to the Dane County Bar Association. Wives of the lawyers will make up the membership....

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