Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1971 | Columbia Savings and Loan

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Clip | 1m | Columbia Savings & Loan, started by the Halyard family, invigorated a Milwaukee Community. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1959 | Sturgeon Bay Cherries

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Clip | 1m | Summer camps and cherry-picking combined, helping create the Door County we know today. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1946 | Yawkee-Bissell Lumber

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Clip | 1m | In White Lake, the Yawkee-Bissell Lumber Company supplied flooring for many NBA courts. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1942 | Great Lakes Shipping

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Clip | 1m | In the '40s, hundreds of ships crossed the Great Lakes each day. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1941 | Oshkosh All-Stars

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Clip | 1m | Eunice Englund recalls the time her husband spent playing for the Oshkosh All-Stars. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1928 | Copper Falls

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Clip | 1m | Copper Falls State Park was formed when a dam threatened the falls' existence. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1925 | Wisconsin State Reformatory

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Clip | 1m | Andrew Janssen, of Green Bay, shares his memories from the Wisconsin State Reformatory. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1913 | Tyomies Finnish Newspaper

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Clip | 1m | As the Finnish community in Wisconsin grew, so did their passion for local news. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1906 | Bayfield Fishing

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Clip | 1m | Jim Erickson shares his family's history of fishing in Bayfield. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1872 | Pinery Boy

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Clip | 1m | Art Thieme's folk song, "Pinery Boy," describes the life and work of lumberers. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1836 | Father Samuel Mazzuchelli

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Clip | 1m | Father Samuel Mazzuchelli helped build up southwestern Wisconsin. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1966 | Migration and Music

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Clip | 59s | Chris Plata, of Columbus, speaks about the influence of music in his life. (59s)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1948 | Alice in Dairyland

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Clip | 1m | Margaret McGuire speaks about her role as the very first Alice in Dairyland. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1946 | Beaver Dam YMCA

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Clip | 59s | A circus and parade gave the Beaver Dam YMCA a new life. (59s)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1894 | Free Traveling Library

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Clip | 1m | The first free traveling library in the nation brought literature to rural communities. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1892 | Charles K. Harris

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Clip | 59s | The story of Oconomowoc's Charles K. Harris, and his rise to fame as a writer & composer. (59s)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1887 | Marshfield Lumber Fire

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Clip | 1m | The Marshfield lumber fire nearly decimated the town in 1887. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1864 | Civil War Hospital

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Clip | 1m | Cordelia Harvey, wife of the governor, petitioned Abraham Lincoln for a war hospital. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1848 | Underground Railroad

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Clip | 1m | In a journal entry, Eliza Porter describes her role in the underground railroad. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1969 | Racine Community Center

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Clip | 1m | Ruby West Jackson fought for a community center in Racine's African American neighborhood. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1957 | Toran's Tropical Hut

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Clip | 1m | Martha Toran shared her experiences running Toran's Tropical Hut in Milwaukee, WI. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1952 | Winter Sports

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Clip | 1m | Glen Ogle shares his experiences running a winter sports center in Perkinstown, WI. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1950 | Girls Professional Baseball

Clip | 59s | Hear personal stories from women in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. (59s)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1946 | Cranberry Marshes

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Clip | 59s | Myrtle Bartling describes the process of sowing cranberries in Manitowish Waters, WI. (59s)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1945 | Rest Lake Dam

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Clip | 1m | The manager of the Rest Lake Dam, Calvin LaPorte, shares his story. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1942 | Sag City School

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Clip | 1m | Deloris Hokland shares her memories from teaching in the Sag City Schoolhouse. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1935 | Horses & Farming

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Clip | 1m | Ardeal Davister shares his memories of farming with his horses in Luxemburg, WI. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1932 | Viroqua During Prohibition

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Clip | 1m | A writer describes how prohibition impacted - or didn't impact - Viroqua, WI. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1930 | DeForest Softball League

Clip | 1m | A personal account of the softball league in DeForest, WI. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1925 | Manitowish Waters

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Clip | 59s | Learn about the flapper-era dance hall in Manitowish Waters, WI. (59s)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1924 | Black River Falls

Clip | 1m | A personal account of what cranberry harvests in Black River Falls were like. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1922 | Larsen Flying Field

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Clip | 1m | Learn about the oldest existing airport in the state of Wisconsin. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1918 | World War I

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Clip | 59s | "Billy" Mitchell writes home to his mother from France during World War I. (59s)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1918 | Armistice Day

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Clip | 59s | Millicent Coombs Freed recalls the Armistice Day parade in Madison after World War I. (59s)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1912 | TR Assassination Attempt

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Clip | 1m | In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt in Milwaukee (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1910 | Railroads

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Clip | 1m | Hear a personal account of the excitement surrounding the advent of railroads in Wisconsin (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1909 | Jim Colby Postcards

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Clip | 1m | Photographer Jim Colby documented life at the turn of the century in Wausau, WI. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1907 | Rice Lake Violinist

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Clip | 1m | Hear Alice Rindlisbacker talk about her father, Otto, and his love of the violin. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1901 | John Muir in Portage

Clip | 59s | A passage from John Muir's writings, talking about his immigration from Ireland. (59s)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1890 | William Bradley

Clip | 1m | Learn about the foundation of Bradley Park, in Tomahawk, WI. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1884 | Ringling Bros. in Baraboo

Clip | 1m | Learn about the advent and history of the Ringling Bros. Circus out of Baraboo, WI. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1879 | Lavinia Goodell

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Clip | 1m | Learn about Lavinia Goodell, the first woman admitted to the bar of the WI Supreme Court. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1871 | The Great Peshtigo Fire

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Clip | 1m | Hear accounts of the Great Peshtigo Fire and the destruction it caused. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1864 | Dells Milling Co.

Clip | 1m | Learn about Dells Milling Company, a 130-yr-old family business in Augusta, WI. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1861 | Manitowoc in the Civil War

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Clip | 1m | Learn about the company of men who would leave Manitowoc, WI to fight in the Civil War. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1859 | Lincoln in Janesville

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Clip | 1m | A personal account of Lincoln's 1859 visit to Janesville, WI. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1855 | Dual Governors

Clip | 1m | Learn about the 1855 election that left Wisconsin with two simultaneous governors. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1849 | First Impressions

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Clip | 1m | A new arrival shares her impression of Wisconsin and the Madison area. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1832 | Blue Mounds Fort

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Clip | 1m | Hear a personal account of events at Blue Mounds Fort. (1m)

Sesquicentennial Minutes: 1945 | Dickey Chapelle

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Clip | 1m | Dickey Chapelle, a female war correspondent from Milwaukee, on her experiences in combat. (1m)