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| Date: | 08 01 1970 |
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| Description: | To escape the heat, teenage girls have a water fight in the backyard pool they built. |
| Date: | 07 12 1970 |
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| Description: | A woman in a polka-dotted suit chats with two men wearing wildly-patterned slacks and sport coats at a summer party. A man plays drums in the background. |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | "Hearthstone," a house built in 1880-1882 by paper mill owner Henry J. Rogers, was the first residence electrified from a centrally located hydroelectric p... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Southeast view of the Evans house at 104 West Main Street with the Campbell-Willoughby house, at 44 West Main Street, in the foreground. The Evans house wa... |
| Date: | 11 25 1973 |
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| Description: | Executive Residence, 130 East Gilman Street, which housed 17 governors before it was sold to the University of Wisconsin in 1950. |
| Date: | 01 06 1974 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of 1130 Shorewood Boulevard, built in 1935 it was known as the "steamboat-round-the-bend" because the second story gives the appearance of a ... |
| Date: | 02 03 1974 |
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| Description: | A vine-covered stone house, 3400 Tallyho Lane, built by Joseph Statz about 1855. Later owned by builder David Stephens and then by Forest & Leonore Middle... |
| Date: | 05 05 1974 |
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| Description: | House with an apparent Mediterranean, "High Renaissance" influence, 1122 Sherman Ave., built by Joseph E. Messerschmidt in 1922. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising brochure for Cub Cadet lawn and garden tractors. The color photograph shows a yellow Cub Cadet tractor on a lawn with a brick... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Huet Freeman of the Southern Mutual Help Association of Louisiana and two of his children after winning three-quarters of a million dollars for farm worker... |
| Date: | 09 1979 |
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| Description: | Retaining wall and houses from back alley. |
| Date: | 02 02 1978 |
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| Description: | "Water tower view, looking due west." |
| Date: | 02 02 1978 |
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| Description: | "Groundhog Day... A view from the water tower, looking northwest. The 20mm lens provides a very wide angle of view." |
| Date: | 02 02 1978 |
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| Description: | "Water tower view, looking to the east." |
| Date: | 02 02 1978 |
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| Description: | "A view from the water tower, looking due south. Groundhog Day was a cloud-free day; forecasting six more weeks of bad weather." |
| Date: | 02 02 1978 |
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| Description: | "View from the water tower looking north up Milwaukee (Main) Street." |
| Date: | 02 12 1978 |
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| Description: | "With the approach of Valentine's Day, the camera looks through the decorated windows of the Bob Bernhard home. Brenda watches her brother, Scott, playing ... |
| Date: | 05 1972 |
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| Description: | Spring scene on Wall Street. The building is the Arbutus Inn, hotel, bar and dining room. It was also the original Snowmobile Hall of Fame. Two boys are st... |
| Date: | 06 02 1975 |
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| Description: | A group portrait taken at the home of Alga Shivers. In front, from left to right, are: Alga Shivers (in overalls), his wife Flora Shivers, Minnie Drake, an... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | During an energy tour of his district Congressman Obey visited various sites to observe projects to increase energy efficiency. Here a workman is preparing... |
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