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Walker Square Park

Date: 07 29 1914
Description: Individuals and children sitting on benches in the foreground of the residential park, with others in the middleground laying on the grass near the water f...
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Headquarters of the 'Billiken Club'

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Description: The exterior of a one-story building, the headquarters of the 'Billiken Club.'
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Boy with School Project Garden

Date: 1919
Description: Young John Bollenbach standing in the middle of a garden, identified as his "Cook County school-home project."
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Madison Swim Meet

Date: 07 09 1953
Description: View of the pier at B.B. Clarke on Lake Monona, scene of the Madison city swim meet.
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Akron Soap Box Derby

Date: 08 11 1940
Description: Thirteen year-old James Borden (standing in the middle) of Madison, Wisconsin, the 1940 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion, waiting for his turn to...
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Street Scene

Date: 1918
Description: View down road of children posing on the side of the road. Two people sit in an automobile. In the background are commercial buildings, and horse-drawn veh...
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High Bridge

Date: 1925
Description: View across water of a deck truss bridge over the dam at Mirror Lake. Timme Mill is on the left side of the lake. There are boats in the foreground, and th...
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Beardsley Residence

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Description: Exterior of the Beardsley's house from the street. A young man in overalls stands on the wooden sidewalk. There is a hammock on the porch. A large building...
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Putting Wounded in Helicopter

Date: 06 1962
Description: Group of villagers carry a stretcher holding a man injured during a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi into a US Marine helicopter for medical ev...
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Helilift Medical Evacuation

Date: 06 1962
Description: Civilians injured during a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi load into a helicopter for medical evacuation. Soldiers assist with the loading.
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Street Scene

Date: 1929
Description: View down street with children playing in the background. Along the street is a row of businesses and storefronts. Advertisements for Chesterfield cigarett...
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Madison UFW Benefit at People's Park

Date: 1969
Description: A benefit gathering at James Rector People's Park to support the United Farmworkers (UFW) grape boycott. The UFW sign, with its eagle symbol, posted in th...
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Bancroft Union Softball Game

Date: 1967
Description: Obreros Unidos (United Workers) migrant farm worker union members at a Bancroft baseball game. Children sit on top of the dugout to watch. Adult men are st...
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Migrant Worker Housing

Date: 1969
Description: A migrant worker family stands in front of a parked vehicle and a cabin that serves as temporary housing in a Wautoma labor camp. Some of the children are ...
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Children at Waushara Labor Camp

Date: 1967
Description: A group of children of migrant worker families playing a ball game in a circle with an adult who has his back to the camera at a Waushara County Labor Camp...
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Union Supporters Cheering at Waushara Rally

Date: 1966
Description: A group of National Farm Workers Association members and supporters applauding rally speakers in front of Waushara County Courthouse. A march to the rally ...
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Group of People in Yard in Front of House

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Description: Two groups of people are posing in yard. On the left a man and woman are posing sitting, with the man resting his hand on a dog. Standing around them are t...
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Best Gardens

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with individual pictures of winners of the Best Gardens competition: George Caravello in ...
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Young Sigrid Schultz

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Description: Young Sigrid Schultz with her mother in Berlin, at what appears to be an open-air restaurant. They are both fashionably dressed in fine hats and dresses.
Postcard

Wreck of No. 33 on May 28, 1913

Date: 1913
Description: Photographic postcard view of the aftermath of a train wreck. Survivors and onlookers are gathered on and around the railroad tracks. Caption reads: "Wreck...

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