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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Susan B. Anthony on her 50th birthday. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | General William "Billy" Mitchell in full dress uniform. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Major Richard Ira Bong, medal of honor winner from Poplar, Wisconsin. Flying a P-38, Bong shot down more enemy aircraft than any other American... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Halle Steensland seated with his hand inside his suit jacket. |
| Date: | 01 16 1976 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Guy Lombardo, bandleader of the Royal Canadians. He and his orchestra were famous for their traditional performance on New Year's Eve at the Wa... |
| Date: | 10 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., cuts a ribbon to open the "They Did It Themselves: 50 Years Ago" exhibit at the State Historical Society. Mrs. Vincent W. K... |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Governor Gaylord Nelson signing the bill which created Menominee County as the state's 72nd county. The new county consisted of those portions of Shawano a... |
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| Description: | Jerome A. Watrous in uniform, wearing medals for his military service during the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a table and painted backdrop of a bearded George F. Pond. He is wearing a suit coat, vest, and trousers, and has a watch fob ch... |
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| Description: | August Derleth posed with part of his comic collection. The image is from a tinted photograph by Carmie Thompson. |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Major General Arthur MacArthur in profile, wearing a military uniform and holding a sword, and a hat. |
| Date: | 03 04 1896 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Ole Torgerson on his 70th birthday. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Stephen Nicholas (1840-1901) of Chilton, Wisconsin. Stephen was a member of the Narragansett tribe. He served with Co. D, 1st ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Stephen Nicholas (1840-1901) of Chilton, Wisconsin. Stephen was a member of the Narragansett tribe. He served with Co. D, 1st ... |
| 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: | 09 06 1976 |
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| Description: | Shirley Abrahamson, the first woman to be appointed as a Justice of the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, takes her oath. Chief Justice Bruce Beilfuss is on t... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic sharing a toast with Senator Theodore Green, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. |
| 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: | 06 04 1965 |
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| Description: | Professor Helen C. White shakes a man's hand at the 1965 commencement ceremony for Grinnell College. |
| Date: | 05 11 1933 |
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| Description: | View from audience, sitting at tables in the foreground, towards a group of men and women standing at a long table adorned with flowers and candles. Behind... |
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