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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Pumpkins are scattered in a field near corn shocks. Farm buildings are in the distance. Caption from calendar: "Shocks of corn on a Wisconsin farm. Wiscons... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The State Street side of the Wisconsin Historical Society building and sidewalk. A large tree is in the left foreground. Bascom Hill is in the Background. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Church, several houses and field from a hill. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of Babcock Memorial Garden on the University of Wisconsin campus with bench. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior of entrance to Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Well-dressed relatives leave a house where they attended a family gathering. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of The Cumberland Hotel. The hotel opened in March of 1891 and was demolished in 1965. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A small crowd gathers for a Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) ceremony under an open air structure, probably in the Wisconsin Dells. Two men in ceremonial dress stand i... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man (maybe a railroad worker or a tramp) standing along a railroad track next to a small cooking fire. Railroad cars are in the background. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Interior portrait of an elderly man sitting in a rocking chair whittling. A small boy is standing behind him on the right. Potted plants are on the window ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the Tank Cottage, aka the Roi-Poerlier-Tank Cottage. The cottage was built in 1776 by Joseph Roi, a fur trader, who lived in it until 1805 when it ... |
| Date: | 06 14 1940 |
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| Description: | Boy Scouts and others recite the Pledge of Allegiance during Madison's first public Flag Day ceremony held at the UW football stadium. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A view across State Street from the east terrace of the Wisconsin Historical Society building. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Two rowboats docked in a river surrounded by trees, following a recent snowfall. |
| Date: | 09 19 1942 |
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| Description: | Presidential Tour - Series IV. Official party views women at work in Allis Chalmers factory. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is looking through rear wind... |
| Date: | 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Governor Julius P. Heil (1876-1949) speaks to Shawano High School students and others during his gubernatorial re-election campaign. He arrived during the ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | The five Dionne quintuplet girls, their sister and parents standing at the end of the observation car occupied by the Dionne party. They were in Superior t... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A muskellunge caught by Louie Spray in 1939 on display at the Angler's Bar. The muskellunge weighed fifty-nine and a half pounds and was caught in Grindsto... |
| Date: | 01 20 1944 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man, with a cigarette in his mouth, is holding a Collie puppy up for auction at Governor Walter Goodland's dog sale. |
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