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| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A veteran places a flower on the grave of an unknown soldier. |
| Date: | 05 28 1979 |
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| Description: | A pair of boy and girl toddlers lead a part of the 33rd annual Memorial Day Parade on flag-bedecked tricycles. |
| Date: | 05 24 1979 |
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| Description: | Lyle Lurvey and Mrs. Lurvey on a tractor planting muskmelon on their farm near Highway 67, south of Dousman. |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | View from road across fence towards the Old Center Oak School in Monches. Snow is on the ground. Caption reads: "Old Center Oak School, Monches, Wis." |
| Date: | 08 1971 |
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| Description: | Color postcard elevated view towards the altar of the Gethsemane Evangelical Lutheran Church. A Christmas tree is on the right. |
| Read about the school for juvenile delinquents that was formed in Waukesha, WI. This article contains links to images and official reports. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Red velveteen vest worn by Wisconsin Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus, c. 1975. (Museum object #1982.450.15) |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| "Bright beer" storage tank by Dunck Tank Works, Milwaukee, c 1910. Used by Stevens Point Brewery, Stevens Point, c 1915-1995.(Museum object #2007.83.2) |
| Legendary Guitarist and Electronics Innovator |
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| Learn about Les Paul, pioneer of the solid-body guitar and innovator in recording techniques. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of Oconomowoc. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Color photographic postcard of the Koepsel house being reassembled at Old World Wisconsin near Eagle. It is an 1860's half-timber farmhouse that was built ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | This map shows lots, house numbers, institutional buildings, and cemeteries. The bottom of the map includes indexes to streets, points of interest and inst... |
| Date: | 10 15 1971 |
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| Description: | Original timber construction marks on the first historic structure to be reconstructed at Old World Wisconsin, a Wisconsin Historical Society site. |
| Date: | 08 25 1978 |
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| Description: | Edward John and Marion (Briggs) Brumder posing for a snapshot on their forty-sixth wedding anniversary. They are casually dressed and each is wearing and s... |
| Date: | 06 09 1978 |
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| Description: | Six children are standing and posing on a barn floor. Behind them in the hayloft, and sitting in the background near an open barn door are children and adu... |
| Date: | 04 12 1979 |
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| Description: | Several people in dresses are standing and holding up their skirts while dancing. Caption reads: "A dance group, the Los Bailarimos Folkloricos de Waukesh... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a general store. Items are stacked on the floor, tables and shelves. |
| Date: | 06 1973 |
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| Description: | A farm worker shearing a sheep in a shed to harvest its wool. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | View through snow-covered cattails after a winter snowfall towards a house on the left, and a barn and a silo on the right. |
| Date: | 07 1976 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a group of tourists at Old World Wisconsin viewing a barn and other farm buildings. |
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