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| Date: | 04 1893 |
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| Description: | Launching Captain Abe McDougall's whaleback boat, "Christopher Columbus", from the American Steel Barge Company dock. |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
| Date: | 04 20 1888 |
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| Description: | The launching of the screw passenger and freight vessel, "Petoskey," on April 20, 1888 at Burger and Burger Builders, Manitowoc, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 07 17 1933 |
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| Description: | Children sitting at a table and having lunch at The Capital Times Kiddie Camp. |
| Date: | 06 20 1931 |
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| Description: | Nine members of the junior and senior class at the University of Wisconsin are sitting in a semi-circle dressed as Native Americans. They are smoking the p... |
| Date: | 07 15 1911 |
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| Description: | Christening ceremony for the S.S. Harvester. The ship was built for the Wisconsin Steel Company, a subsidiary of International Harvester. The 545-fo... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | "View of the Capitol, with all the Flags" one of four "Different Views of Parades in the Streets" identified in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic View... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Quite possibly this is the "View of the Grand Music Band" listed in the "Centennial Views of the City of Madison, July 4th, 1876. Views of Chicago Light Gu... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Quite possibly this is the "View of Capt. L.M. Lange's tent and seven Captains" listed in the "Centennial Views of the City of Madison, July 4th, 1876. Vie... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A large group of well-dressed people are standing aboard three small steamboats on Lake Monona. The boat in the foreground is a barge with a sternwheel. Th... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a large group of men, women and children, at a lake shore, possibly Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. The Norwegian flag suggests... |
| Date: | 05 17 1870 |
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| Description: | A large group, mainly men, are gathered behind the "Lake City Cornet Band" who are in uniform near a lake shore, possibly Lake Monona. The card was marked ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | "The Grand Regatta, at Devil's Lake, June 21st & 22nd, 1877." Spectators sit on the railroad bed at Devil's Lake. |
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| Description: | Fourth of July flag drill at Vilas Park, choreographed by F.W. Kehl in Madison. The land for Vilas Park was donated to the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive ... |
| Date: | 06 22 1925 |
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| Description: | The automobile bearing the casket of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., begins it journey from the Wisconsin Capitol to Forest Hill Cemetery. Here it is ... |
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| Description: | Dancers at a celebration on the grounds at Taliesin. Taliesin was the summer home of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship. Taliesin is located in... |
| Date: | 06 1946 |
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| Description: | Women assembled for the bride's bouquet toss at the Helen Louise Hadley-Dr. John Farrell Whitman wedding reception at the Alpha Xi Delta sorority house, 12... |
| Date: | 06 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Arthur Melster, President of Cambridge Foundation; K.K. Amundson. M.D. of Cambridge; and W.T. Webb of Evinrude Motors, look at the Lake Ripley Ole Evinrude... |
| Date: | 04 29 1944 |
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| Description: | Three sorority girls attending the Alpha Phi Sorority garden party on the University of Wisconsin campus. |
| Date: | 04 28 1944 |
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| Description: | Six sorority girls in a row boat, at the Alpha Phi party on the University of Wisconsin campus. |
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