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| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of crowd in the Fauerbach Brewery tavern at 651 Williamson Street, with men and women drinking and toasting and celebrating the end ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi with young civil rights activists. They have all joined hands and are singing. |
| Date: | 01 01 1914 |
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| Description: | People sitting at a table in a dance hall wine room at 2:00 a.m. |
| Date: | 07 04 1913 |
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| Description: | Group of people known as the "Moonlight Outing Club" at Muskego Lake. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A street musician named Frank Ritter playing violin on a city sidewalk (possibly in Chicago), with a dog leashed to his belt. A tin cup is attached to the ... |
| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| Description: | African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a group of men standing and sitting on a raft, watching Dick Stevenson in the center dancing. Zack Dugas is at left clapping time, and Jack ... |
| Date: | 11 22 1937 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering dealer Edward Gumienick smoking a cigar as he is loading dairy equipment into his International truck for a sales "canvassing" trip. His ... |
| Date: | 08 12 1932 |
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| Description: | RKO motion picture actress Raquel Torres christening the new model airplane manufactured in Madison by Orland Corben. Corben had flown the airplane that br... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Three stone cutters (probably Italian) working on decorative details over the east entrance of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Wisconsin Histori... |
| Date: | 05 22 1935 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a large group of children in costume, some in blackface, on the stage at Franklin School. 305 W. Lakeside Street. |
| Date: | 11 24 1931 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette delivers a special message on welfare relief to a special session of the legislature in the assembly chamber of the Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 05 12 1931 |
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| Description: | Joseph Conlin, tenor, signing a contract to perform at the Parkway Theater. Dr. William G. Beecroft shown standing is sponsoring Mr. Conlin's appearance. |
| Date: | 04 03 1930 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a drawing of a farmer on a tractor. |
| Date: | 04 05 1927 |
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| Description: | The Lounge & Smoking Room at the Orpheum Theatre, located at 216 State Street. |
| Date: | 09 02 1965 |
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| Description: | Avant garde patrons smoke and listen to poets, singers and guitarists. |
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| Description: | Native Americans on the Menominee Reservation near Keshena, Wisconsin. A white man in the foreground appears to be drawing something out of camera range. T... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Re-enactors demonstrating a replica of the first reaper built by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831. The man raking at the back of the reaper appears to be playi... |
| Date: | 08 11 1941 |
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| Description: | John Ciezczak (b.1885?), a Polish watchmaker, who sang songs in Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Kasshubian for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. He is... |
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