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Date: | 06 17 1986 |
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Description: | A group of children on "hot cycles," a form of young children's transportation, are being instructed on the rules of pedestrian and bicycle transportation ... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Elevated view of a streetcar going down North Main Street. Raiche Drugstore sits on the right corner. |
Date: | 06 26 1986 |
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Description: | Kids make a "train," with the bicyclist in the front pulling three girls on roller skates along a sidewalk. |
Date: | 12 28 1928 |
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Description: | View across street towards a man checking an automobile tire in front of a service station and garage owned by Charles Lawrence. A boy is standing with h... |
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Description: | Group of racers bank around a turn on a velodrome track. |
Date: | 06 16 1988 |
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Description: | One boy steadies a bike while his friend tightens the nut on the front wheel to complete a tire repair. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Farmer on a horse-drawn McCormick binder outside a large farmstead as men, boys, and a dog are looking on. One boy is on a bicycle. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | The cover of "Tom Swift and His Airship or the Stirring Cruise of the Red Cloud." |
Date: | 1924 |
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Description: | A barnstorming pilot and curious onlookers at a field on the outskirts of Waukesha that served as a primitive airport. Technically, the term barnstorming s... |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Crowds of Italians rushing to see Wilbur Wright and his airplane near Rome. After his triumphant demonstration of the "Flyer" in France the previous fall, ... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Sidney Catle, on bike, stands with his sister Sarah to his right, Harvey Richards, and twin sisters. |
Date: | 08 25 1944 |
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Description: | An American soldier receives a kiss in gratitude for the liberation of Paris during World War II. |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | The monoplane glider built and flown by Carl S. Bates of Clear Lake, Iowa. During the previous year Bates had built a bi-plane glider. |
Date: | 06 20 1944 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the Photo Copy Service building at 211 West Mifflin Street, next to Pettersen's carpets and linoleum, 209 West Mifflin Street. Also shown ... |
Date: | 05 27 1939 |
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Description: | Roundy Coughlin in a police uniform, standing in front of a motorcycle and a life-sized poster of four movie stars on a tandem bicycle. This event occurred... |
Date: | 09 04 1938 |
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Description: | Accident scene on Highway 12-18 one-half mile east of the Dane County fairgrounds. Close-up of front of automobile, with bicycle under the car. Katherine B... |
Date: | 10 20 1937 |
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Description: | Sales woman demonstrating a Maytag washing machine to a customer. In the foreground are Maytag Ironers (mangles) at Burdick & Murray, 26-30 N. Carroll Stre... |
Date: | 07 24 1935 |
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Description: | Children, from Hawthorne School Annex, wearing Mardi Gras style heads, are marching in the Lantern Parade, with the First Evangelical Church in the backgro... |
Date: | 03 20 1935 |
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Description: | View across street towards the Madison Steam Laundry, at 433 State Street, the scene of a fire. In front of the building is a fire truck with extension lad... |
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