Date: | 10 1940 |
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Description: | Street scene of people in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, being addressed by two German soldiers. The scene was witnessed by American journalist A... |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | Bodies of Germans killed by Poles in Lemberg when the Nazis invaded Poland. American journalist Alvin Steinkopf was one of a number of journalists from neu... |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | Digging for bodies in a mass grave near Lemberg, Poland, where German civilians were killed by the Poles during the Nazi invasion. American journalist Alvi... |
Date: | 1934 |
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Description: | Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Kellermeister Beer, made by the Oconomowoc Brewing Company. Includes an image of a Ge... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | This map is ink on tracing paper showing all the counties of Wisconsin. The upper right hand corner contains a legend for distinguishing Wisconsin counties... |
Date: | 10 09 1956 |
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Description: | View into a German wooden shoe-making shop in The Village Green, a Wisconsin Historical Society exhibit. Shown in the shop are Marcia Harrington and Koroth... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | A hand-colored map of Wisconsin showing distribution ethnic groups based on the 1885 state census. The various nationalities are color-coded and include: I... |
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Description: | A map indicating the population density of German-born people in Wisconsin based on the 1905 census. The map shows the county boundaries throughout the sta... |
Date: | 06 17 1900 |
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Description: | View down street of German soldiers on a march from the depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad on their way to Turner Hall. |
Date: | 02 02 1993 |
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Description: | "Tour guide, Ralph Widmer, displays a Swiss cow bell to visiting AFS students at Widmer's Cheese Factory. Students were from Thailand, Yugoslavia, Germany,... |
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Description: | Artist's rendering of an elevated view of the first kindergarten, with children and a teacher gathered in front of the building. There are inset portraits ... |
Date: | 02 05 1958 |
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Description: | Group portrait of the West German men's and women's gymnastics teams at Turner Hall. They are in Madison to perform at the University of Wisconsin field ho... |
Date: | 02 11 1958 |
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Description: | Jack Burke standing at a podium onstage while reading a tribute and life story of Armand F. Ketterer, principal of Franklin school, standing at right. |
Date: | 02 05 1957 |
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Description: | Edith Meinke from Ludinghausen, Germany, a Brittingham scholarship student at the University of Wisconsin, exhibiting some Wisconsin apples during the Univ... |
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