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| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Jesse C. Brabazon, a pioneer aviator from Delavan, Wisconsin, in his uniform as a member of the Milwaukee Wing of the Civil Air Patrol during World War II. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | View of street corner on Hanchett's block, on the northeast corner of State and Brood streets, with a newspaper stand, clothing store, and a labor temple. ... |
| Date: | 12 29 1947 |
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| Description: | Interior of Kreb's Pharmacy, with the soda fountain in the foreground, and customers are in booths in the background. |
| Date: | 12 29 1947 |
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| Description: | View towards the Kreb's Pharmacy on a street corner. There are Rexall and Borden's Ice Cream signs in the window. There is a fountain (bubbler) on the side... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | View of the front and left side of the Tallman House seen through the trees in the front garden. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | The North Lima Presbyterian Church. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the corner of a building which is covered with vines, on the Milton College campus. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view of older, established buildings at Milton College. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from right looking towards the main entrance of Science Hall at Milton College. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Whitford Memorial Hall, in which is housed the library of Milton College, including many books on biology and evolution. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the Milton College campus. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Pouring concrete for footings on the Bass Creek Bridge on County Highway D in Rock County. The contractor is Luety Brothers. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Santa Claus surrounded by children at a Christmas Party sponsored by the United Automobile Workers Local 121 of Janesville. |
| Date: | 02 27 1949 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Beloit, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Miss Zelma Purchase, of the Home Economics Department at International Harvester's Evansville Works, sits at a table with folded hands. |
| Date: | 07 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Funeral cortege of veteran Frank "Bud" Willman at the railroad depot in Edgerton. The cortege included a color guard, Legionnaires and marching men of the... |
| Fort Atkinson Poet |
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| Biography of Lorine Niedecker, a poet raised in Fort Atkinson. |
| Adventurer, Explorer and Real Life Indiana Jones |
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| Biography of Roy Chapman Andrews Jones, noted adventurer, explorer and possible model for the character of Indiana Jones. |
| Brief history of the General Motors plant in Janesville. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Women's coveralls worn by Teresa Kuykendall while working in a factory in Beloit, Wisconsin during World War II. (Museum object #2007.92.1) |
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