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My Future Was. . . Farming

Date: 01 28 1985
Description: Farm family youth demonstrates to call awareness to the economic problems facing the family farm.
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Mower, Reaper and Twine Binder Catalog

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring an engraving of boys marching under a benner of "Vic...
Photograph

Children Receiving Food Parcels from the Boys and Girls Club

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Description: Children lined up outside a pharmacy to receive potatoes, eggs, and other items packaged by the Boys and Girls Club.
Photograph

Model Airplane Builders Club

Date: 06 01 1934
Description: Group portrait of members of a vocational school model airplane builders club, each holding a model airplane with a diagram of a cambered aerofoil from a c...
Poster

The Health Of The Child Is The Power Of The Nation

Date: 1918
Description: A group of children walking up a grassy hill together, with text that reads: "The health of the child is the power of the nation," and "Children's Year." C...
Photograph

Two Boys at Refreshment Counter

Date: 01 09 1956
Description: Rees Thomas and Billy Putnam at an ice skating party at the Truax Field clubhouse refreshment counter holding soda bottles.
Photograph

Swimming Safety

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Lifeguard Kenneth Harwick applying a first aid bandage to the foot of Hazel Gehri, who is holding a shattered milk bottle left on the beach.
Photograph

WPA Built Cabin

Date: 07 14 1936
Description: Children assemble on the stairs of a WPA built cabin.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Rag

Date: 03 1969
Description: Cover of "The Rag." an underground newspaper, featuring a photograph of a young-looking girl smoking a marijuana joint.
Photograph

Group Posing with Motorcycles and Cars

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Description: Eleven motorcyclists wearing sashes are standing in between two news service cars in front of the Milwaukee Journal building. Another row of men are...
Photograph

Girls Standing near Bookmobile

Date: 08 30 1938
Description: Three girls stand at the entrance of the Superior Bookmobile (an International truck) holding books. A child playing tennis is in the background. The origi...
Photograph

Nakoma Girl Scouts, Troop 42

Date: 12 16 1949
Description: In preparation for Christmas, Girl Scout Troop 42 of Nakoma School made 30 stuffed animals for children at the Washington Orthopedic school, and 100 Christ...
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Women and Children Outside Livery

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Description: Ho-Chunk women and children wrapped in shawls and sitting on the ground outside the livery.
Photograph

Group of Waiting Boys

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Description: A group of boys are standing near the entrance of a brick building waiting to get in. A man behind them is entering the door. The sign near the door reads ...
Photograph

"Imitativeness: Take Me Like a Prize-Fighter"

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Description: A group of boys take a boxing stance near two men standing on a street corner, in front of a building that has "Milwaukee Beer" painted on it.
Photograph

UNICO Festival

Date: 06 28 1950
Description: Children who came to the UNICO festival in Brittingham Park gather around a soap box derby car for a group portrait. The festival is sponsored by the Madis...
Photograph

Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

Date: 07 28 1957
Description: The car and driver that won the Madison Soap Box Derby in 1957 at the starting line. The car is called "Phillipson Garage" and the driver is Van Steiner of...
Photograph

Madison Soap Box Derby Parade

Date: 07 28 1957
Description: Soap box derby contestants parade up East Washington Avenue before the race to receive their entry prize, a tool kit.
Photograph

Park Spring

Date: 1905
Description: Travelers stop by a spring in the woods for water with their early-model automobile. Two boys are standing at the spring, and a young girl stands above the...
Photograph

Boys With Bicycle on Main Street

Date: 1900
Description: Syl stands holding an umbrella near an unidentified boy who is leaning on a bicycle on the edge of a cobblestone street. Storefronts are along the street o...

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