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| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | H.L. Mencken sits at the breakfast table reading the newspaper and dining on toast and a goblet of beer. He autographed the photograph with "Breakfast in t... |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Joseph Schlitz. His signature is beneath the image. |
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| Description: | "Pabst, Frederick (Mar. 28, 1836-Jan. 1, 1904), brewer, business executive, b. Thuringia, Germany. He migrated with his parents to the U.S. and to Milwauke... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length studio portrait of Oscar G. Mayer (1888-1965). He was president and chairman of the board of Oscar Mayer & Co., the firm founded by hi... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Assemblyman Ben Riehle, a Democrat from Athens, spreads real butter on his bread at a restaurant near the Wisconsin State Capitol. Riehle, a dai... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert sits next to Marlene Dietrich at a party thrown by Clifton Webb. They are both in formal dress. There are empty dinner plates and a bask... |
| Date: | 06 08 1939 |
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| Description: | Governor Julius Heil squirting milk from a cow on a parade float. The Governor climbed aboard the float during the dairyland parade, a part of Milwaukee's ... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Lansing A. Wilcox — last Civil War veteran in Wisconsin — with a group of men at his 105th birthday. The birthday party was held at the G... |
| Date: | 02 17 1872 |
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| Description: | Political cartoon depicting a woman on a rocky path carrying two children and a drunken husband on her back being tempted by Victoria Woodhull depicted as ... |
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| Description: | Governor Albert Schmedeman sits at his desk for a group portrait. To his right stand three men wearing suits, and to Schmedeman's left stand five women wea... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Adda Howie bottle feeding a calf at Sunny Peak Farm. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Elisha Smith sitting. He is wearing a long coat and resting his arm on a table. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Frederick Meyer. He was president of Red Dot Foods, Inc., which produced Red Dot Potato Chips. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Lithograph portrait of Egbert W. Gillett, who wrote Gillett's magic cook book in 1892 and founded the Northwestern Yeast Company in Chicago in 1893.... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length semi-profile carte-de-visite portrait of Oscar Altpeter, a maltster and Democratic politician. Altpeter was the son of Phillip Alt... |
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