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| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Families gathered in front of large tents at a Chautauqua meeting. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright, monitoring the construction and testing of load-bearing pylons for the Johnson Wax Building. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | On-lookers survey a wreck on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. |
| 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: | 06 27 1927 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the effigy mound on Henry Wehmhoff's Riverview Farm. State Trunk Highway 83 runs through the effigy. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | A crew of construction workers paving North Main Street with brick. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | View of the Johnson Wax Research and Development Tower under construction. |
| Date: | 09 26 1967 |
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| Description: | Young children listen to a story through earphones as a teacher's aid looks on. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | A man in bow tie and suspenders sits in front of a small tent. Next to him is a rocking chair with a sign on it that says "Don't you see I'm Lonely." Writt... |
| Date: | 09 06 1988 |
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| Description: | A young girl listens to a speech at the Racine Laborfest. She holds a balloon imprinted with the slogan, "Buy Union Buy American." |
| Date: | 06 12 1931 |
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| Description: | The letterhead stationery of a Racine economic development committee reads: "Air City, Where the Air-Minded Live," The design shows airplanes and even a... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright conferring with another man on the site of one of his great designs, the Johnson Wax Building. |
| Date: | 03 30 1933 |
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| Description: | Horlick's Malted Milk Corporation depot with receiving trucks. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length outdoor portrait of William Horlick (1846-1936), co-founder of Horlick's Malted Milk Company of Racine, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of William Horlick (1846-1936), by Harold A. Stewart. |
| Date: | 09 15 1930 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Sr., (with flower in his lapel), who was campaigning for re-election, took time out for a baseball game at Horlick Athletic Fiel... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the wreck of a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad train at Corliss. A large crowd of men are watching as a Bucyrus crane is lifting a car b... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Four Jacobson daughters in living room with an ornate stove and a Christmas tree in the back room. |
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