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Boxers Posing with their Coach

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Description: Six fighters in pugilistic poses, in the boxing ring with their coach. The Milwaukee Urban League provided community activities, like boxing, for children ...
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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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Gesell Family Burlesque

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Description: The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi...
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Farm Family in Living Room

Date: 1900
Description: A farm family posing in their living room. Sitting from left to right is John Dietrich (1874-1947), Grace Bowman (1879-1964), and Mrs. Lizzie Macke Dietric...
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Stoughton Boy Scouts

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Description: Stoughton, Wisconsin Boy Scouts of America Troop No. 1 group portrait with a dog in the front of the group. One of the members is holding a trumpet.
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Christopher Columbus Play

Date: 11 28 1933
Description: Four children in costume surround a cardboard cutout of a sailing ship for a play about Christopher Columbus. The play was performed at Longfellow School, ...
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Football Team

Date: 1899
Description: The football team from Platteville Normal School.
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Basketball Team

Date: 1908
Description: Basketball team poses for a group portrait.
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Family Cast

Date: 02 12 1963
Description: Six members of the same family form the complete cast of a library playhouse production that was to be televised.
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African American Workers at IHC McCormick Works

Date: 1905
Description: Group of employees, all men or young men, and mostly African American, posing inside manila or cotton processing room of IHC's McCormick Works. One man is ...
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Four Lakes Boy Scouts Drum & Bugle Corps

Date: 05 14 1945
Description: Group portrait of the all-Eagle Four Lakes Boy Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps with their director, from Madison, Wisconsin.
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Boy Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps.

Date: 04 21 1945
Description: Group portrait of the Four Lakes Council Boy Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps, with instruments.
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Boy Scouts Troop #20

Date: 05 09 1945
Description: Presentation of the Eisenhower Awards to Boy Scouts Troop #20 at Christ Presbyterian Church, 124 Wisconsin Avenue.
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Boy Scouts Troop #20

Date: 05 09 1945
Description: Group portrait of Boy Scouts Troop #20 at Christ Presbyterian Church, 124 Wisconsin Avenue.
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Edgewood High School Prom King and Queen

Date: 02 22 1944
Description: Caryl Coyle and Alex McCormick, who will be the Queen and King of the Edgewood High School Junior Prom to be held in May, were photographed at the Edgewood...
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Edgewood High School Prom King and Queen

Date: 02 22 1944
Description: Close-up of Caryl Coyle and Alex McCormick, who will be the Queen and King of the Edgewood High School Junior Prom to be held in May, photographed at the ...
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Birthday Party Group

Date: 02 26 1944
Description: Group portrait of 14 young men taken in a living room at a birthday party (for Connie J. Lewis ?), with a dog, and four of the young men holding puppies. P...
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Boy Scouts, Troop #32, Banquet

Date: 02 14 1943
Description: Boy Scouts, Troop #32 from Latter Day Saints Church, banquet with Senior Patrol scouts sitting at tables, and more scouts and adult leaders standing in the...
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St. James Class Play

Date: 05 03 1942
Description: Group portrait of play cast on stage for St. James Catholic School, 1204 St. James Court.
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St. James Class Play

Date: 05 03 1942
Description: Group portrait of play cast, St. James Catholic School, 1204 St. James Court.

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