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Description: | Museum exhibit for the Chicago Historical Society depicting what a typical early Chicago drugstore looked like. |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | W.F. Trukenbrod posing on the sidewalk underneath the awning of his store for this New Year's postcard. Text on right reads: "We Wish You A Happy New Year ... |
Date: | 11 17 1909 |
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Description: | Colorized view depicting men and women office workers taking a break in a celebratory mode. Two of the women are taking a sheet off the calendar on the wal... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Depiction of a man and a woman each putting their votes into a ballot box, touting equal suffrage: "For a better government of the people, by the people, a... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | An exhibition airplane on display inside a tent at Dixon, Illinois, thought to be a "Red Devil," plane designed by Thomas A. Baldwin. |
Date: | 09 25 1912 |
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Description: | Lincoln Beachey, the best known aviator of the exhibition era, performed in Wisconsin with his Curtiss Pusher airplane on numerous occasions. This postcar... |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | Portrait of William Howard Taft, used in his 1908 presidential election campaign. Caption reads: "William Howard Taft, Our Next President." |
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Description: | View across tracks toward the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Station. Caption reads: "C. & M. Electric Station, Kenosha, Wis." |
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Description: | Exterior of the Prairie Farm Creamery with horse-drawn wagons in front. Caption reads: "Prairie Farm Creamery, Pr. Farm, Wis." |
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Description: | Harvest Corn Dance at the pueblo of Santo Domingo. Caption reads: "Corn Dance, Pueblo of Santo Domingo, N. Mex." |
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Description: | A postcard with the text "Greetings From Monroe, Wis.," as well as images including postcard views of Wisconsin's pioneer cheese maker Niklaus Gerber, a co... |
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Description: | Exterior of building at State Tuberculosis Rehabilitation Camp in Tomahawk Lake. Two people are standing along the front of the building. Caption reads: "S... |
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Description: | Several Indians tanning a deer hide outside a tipi. |
Date: | 1904 |
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Description: | Levee in harbor, with boats, horse-drawn carriages, and steamboats. Caption reads: "The Levee, La Crosse, Wis." |
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Description: | Steamboat on the shoreline of the Mississippi River with passengers. Caption reads: "La Crosse, Winona and Wabasha Daily Packet." |
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Description: | Caricature of man smoking a cigar while walking down the street. He is about to fall in a open manhole. Caption reads "If Nothing Happens I'll Be With You ... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Five men and one woman, possibly employees of the Kirkpatrick Cheese Factory, gathered in front of the factory building. A car is parked along the curb in ... |
Date: | 1889 |
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Description: | Three-quarter length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of five Hayward Indian School students, possibly a basketball team, from L to R: John C... |
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Description: | Cartoon postcard of a quack doctor. He wears a top hat and carries an umbrella under his arm. In his right hand he holds a bag bearing the name Dr. Killem.... |
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