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Photograph

Seated Portrait of Woman in Striped Dress

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Description: Studio portrait of a seated woman wearing a striped dress.
Drawing

Wooden Well in Dekorra

Date: 1850
Description: Black and white ink drawing of an old wooden well.
Photograph

Legal Secretary Jennie Nelson

Date: 1898
Description: Secretary Jennie Nelson seated at her desk in the offices of the La Follette, Harper, Roe, & Zimmerman law partnership. After Robert M. La Follette, Sr., w...
Photograph

St. Joseph's Catholic Church

Date: 1889
Description: St. Joseph's Catholic Church built in 1841 by Father Frederick Baraga (later Bishop), who established his mission in 1835. A small log church was commenced...
Photograph

Interstate Concrete Pour

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Description: Concrete pour during the construction of an unidentified Wisconsin highway. The crew for this job includes a woman.
Print

Methodist Episcopal Parsonage

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Description: Methodist Episcopal Parsonage, built in 1905. Caption on print at top reads: "Methodist Episcopal Parsonage, Montfort, Wis. Built 1905." Caption at bottom:...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Tub Race

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Description: Several views of the University of Wisconsin-Madison tub race. Several men race in wooden tubs while others watch from boats or a dock.
Photograph

River Drivers

Date: 1895
Description: Crew of river drivers moving logs off of rocks below a dam probably on the Wisconsin River.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Dr. Lapham at the Age of 38 Years

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Description: Newspaper photograph of a daguerreotype portrait of Increase Lapham taken in 1849.
Photograph

Family at Home

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Description: Indoor portrait of a man sitting in a chair with a young girl? and two children sitting on his lap.
Photograph

Bernard H. Mahnke

Date: 1932
Description: Waist-up portrait of Bernard H. Mahnke (1891-1978) standing behind a counter packaging groceries, possibly for delivery. Merchandise lines shelves in the b...
Photograph

Emil A. Weber

Date: 1932
Description: Seated, waist-up portrait of Emil A. Weber (1883-1961), marine contractor and secretary-treasurer of the McMullen & Pitz Construction Company. The firm was...
Photograph

United States Delegates to 1st International Congress of Women

Date: 1915
Description: Group portrait of a group of women sitting and standing outside a building. Caption reads: "U.S. delegates to the 1st International Congress of Women at Th...

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