Date: | 10 27 1915 |
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Description: | Four impoverished men hired by "The Medical Review of Reviews" carry signs with the eugenics slogans, "I am a burden to myself and the State. Should I be a... |
Date: | 07 1927 |
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Description: | On-lookers survey a wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | Members of the German-American Freie Gemeinde ("Free Thinkers") organization, posing in front of their building at Sauk City. |
Date: | 11 06 1946 |
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Description: | Joseph R. McCarthy in the home of friends Urban and Margery Van Susteren of Little Chute, on the morning after his election to the U.S. Senate. Van Sustere... |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wisconsin Governor Julius P. Heil, and other officials touring the Allis-Chalmers plant. |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Woman baking in a large kitchen with lean-to pantry and a wood-burning stove. The sconces or reflectors on the kerosene lamps intensified the light. |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | A ticket collector for the Milwaukee Electric Railway is sitting at her station. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Downer College students working in a laboratory in which a human skeleton, a frog, a bat and stuffed birds are displayed. |
Date: | 01 10 1934 |
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Description: | Milk strikers and a pile of empty milk cans next to railroad tracks. Bill Nemeth (left) is pouring out milk in an attempt to create a shortage that would r... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Farmers delivering their milk in wagons to a dairy plant on Black Creek Road near Appleton. The advent of automobiles would vastly improve farmers ability... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I. |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | A traveling medicine wagon with saleswomen and vendor selling Westmore's Hair Tonic. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Sample tables in the Grain Exchange Room of the Chamber of Commerce Building. The Milwaukee Grain Exchange was a pioneer in grain trading with their develo... |
Date: | 11 22 1955 |
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Description: | Thomas Constable (left) and Walter Medenski (right), pose in front of canned food gathered by pupils at the Center Street school for the Salvation Army's T... |
Date: | 08 24 1968 |
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Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kress, dressed in lederhosen, enjoy beer and sweet corn at the Mid-summer Festival. |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | Vice President Richard M. Nixon waves his cowboy hat from the seat of an International 300 utility tractor. |
Date: | 11 11 1957 |
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Description: | Uptown Post #400 Drill Team in formation firing a salute on Armistice Day while passers-by pause to pay their respects. |
Date: | 04 1950 |
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Description: | A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash. |
Date: | 09 1980 |
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Description: | A competitor in the State Cow Chip Tossing Contest has 30 seconds to choose her cow chip. The cow chips are specially made from cow manure. |
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