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Freight Train Minirama

Date: 1960
Description: A Wisconsin Dells minirama miniature model showing a short train with a Prairie-type locomotive on the bridge over the Wisconsin River.
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Wisconsin Wayside

Date: 09 20 1972
Description: Wayside #8 near Necedah in rural Adams County.
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Professor Clay Daggett

Date: 01 18 1956
Description: Portrait of Clay Daggett, University of Wisconsin education professor who has also been a tour guide in many parts of the world.
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Wisconsin Football Team

Date: 10 20 1950
Description: The University of Wisconsin football team boards an airplane taking them to their game at Michigan, played the following day.
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Family Camping along the Road

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Description: Camping scene along an unidentified Wisconsin road. Although part of the Wisconsin Good Roads collection of Melvin Diemer, this photograph was probably tak...
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Movie Set at Old World Wisconsin

Date: 1990
Description: Tourists visit the historic Seven-Mile Inn at Old World Wisconsin transformed for its role as the Daleyville Bank in the ABC made-for-TV movie "Dillinger".
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Wisconsin Billboard

Date: 1938
Description: A movable billboard aimed at passing motorists along State Highway 20 in Illinois. It reads "Relax in Wisconsin, Where Friends and Nature Meet." Although...
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Blind Hitchhiker

Date: 05 16 1950
Description: Leslie Zacharias, a blind hitchhiker, is shown standing with his thumb out. A University of Wisconsin junior, he has hitchhiked an estimated 8,000 miles in...
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Wisconsin State Journal Newspaper Carriers

Date: 06 29 1954
Description: Portrait of the eleven Wisconsin State Journal newspaper carriers who won three-day trips to Chicago and Milwaukee in a subscription contest sponsor...
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Interstate Rest Area

Date: 08 31 1970
Description: Rest area on Interstate Highway I-90.
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Eau Claire Holiday Inn

Date: 1980
Description: Exterior of the Eau Claire Holiday Inn.
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Off to the University

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Description: Sigurd Olson, posing proudly, as he leaves his Ashland home for study at the University of Wisconsin. A woman is standing in the doorway of a house behind ...
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Milwaukee's Air Terminal

Date: 06 21 1955
Description: Night view of the air terminal at Mitchell Field. In the foreground is the wing and propeller of a large airplane.
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Point Bluff Wayside

Date: 09 30 1970
Description: Point Bluff Wayside as viewed from the highway bridge above.
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AAA Display of Travel Materials

Date: 06 23 1939
Description: Display of travel materials for Wisconsin Division of AAA American Automobile Association Travel Bureau.
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Wausau Wheelers

Date: 06 1987
Description: Congressman David Obey of Wisconsin biking with the Wausau Wheelers.
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University of Wisconsin Student Exchange with University of Illinois

Date: 04 02 1965
Description: Five University of Wisconsin students boarding a bus for the University of Illinois with the first student exchange between the two Big 10 schools. 20 boys...
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Hilton Guest Room

Date: 1982
Description: Typical room at the Milwaukee River Hilton Inn in MIlwaukee.
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Black Earth Wisconsin, Penco Filling Station

Date: 1929
Description: The Penco Filling Station in Black Earth. Wisconsin. Entrances to the ladies rest rooms in the service stations of this period were typically outside the ...
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Wisconsin State Journal Editor Leaving for World Tour

Date: 01 15 1952
Description: Roy L. Matson, editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, boarding a plane to start a 25,000-mile air tour of Europe and the Near East under the sponsorship of...

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