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Kids Drinking Milk in School

Date: 1921
Description: Classroom full of school children drinking milk at Washington school.
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East High School Friendship Club

Date: 03 10 1930
Description: East High School girls Friendship Club posing on stage, giving a treasure chest which they filled to Philippino girls.
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William Bonner Family

Date: 1871
Description: A family, possibly that of William Bonner, is posing around a table in a yard. A man is sitting on the left holding a paper in one hand and a glass in the ...
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Girl Scout Cookie Sales

Date: 03 01 1945
Description: Mrs. Austin T. Breyer (Daisy), 2730 Lakeland Avenue, ordering Girl Scout cookies from Scouts Mary Ripp, left, 2202 Lakeland Avenue, a member of Troop 12 of...
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Children Posing with Nun

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Description: Studio portrait of three children with flower bouquets in front of a painted backdrop. One boy is seated and two girls are standing. All of the children ar...
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Audrey Walsh and Red Cross Volunteers

Date: 01 19 1949
Description: Mrs. John J. (Audrey) Walsh, 1662 Monroe Street, in charge of distributing heart-shaped distribution boxes for the American Heart Association in Dane Count...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsor

Date: 06 28 1952
Description: Two men from C.C. Collins and Sons, Inc. look over a color chart for their racers with two boys they are sponsoring in the soap box derby race. Left to rig...
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Nyhus Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of eleven members of the Nyhus family, including four women, four men, and three young boys.
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Family with Portrait

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Description: Seven members of the Fragon family sitting and standing for a portrait around a framed painting of a young man, possibly a deceased family member. An older...
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Willms Cigar Factory, Milwaukee

Date: 1896
Description: Workers at the Willms cigar factory, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, posing with cigars and cigar boxes. Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917) sits on the far left with six c...
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Unidentified Goetsch Portrait

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Description: A copy negative of "unidentified Goetsch picture" taken by Alexander Krueger. A young man is sitting in a chair. On either side of him two young girls stan...
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Portrait of Goetsch Children

Date: 1870
Description: Copy negative of a studio portrait of Hannah Goetsch Gericke, Albert Goetsch, and Ernistina Goetsch Bigalk taken by Alexander Krueger. They are possibly th...
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Portrait of Five Teenagers

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of five teenagers. Three boys and one girl are standing and one girl is sitting in a chair. The girls are wearing dresses and t...
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Back River Falls High School Class of 1894

Date: 1894
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of six men posed standing, two men and four women posed sitting. Probably the Black River Falls High School ...
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People Posing in Yard of Frame House

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Description: Man and woman posing sitting, and two men and two young girls standing, along with a dog in a yard in front of a frame house with a porch. Farm buildings a...
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Group of People in Yard in Front of Frame House

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Description: Seven people are posing in the yard of a frame house with a porch. There are plants in a garden in the foreground. An older man and woman are sitting in ch...
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Group of People Posing in front of Frame House

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Description: Group portrait of a man and woman posing sitting in chairs, with a young boy and a dog posing between them. An older boy is standing to their right holding...
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People Posing in Front of Log House

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Description: Group portrait of people sitting in a row, with a man and woman in the center, and two young girls flanking them. Behind them standing, on the left, is a y...
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People Posing in Front of Log Farmhouse

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Description: View across yard towards a group of eight people posing in front of a log house. On the left two young women are standing near an older woman, who is sitti...
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Carolers For Roundy's Fun Fund

Date: 12 22 1957
Description: "Roundy" (Joseph Coughlin) is sitting in a chair while holding an envelope he received from Christmas carolers Lea Heifetz, Janice Huza, and Patty Walker. ...

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