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Manuscript

Banner of "Milwaukee Sentinel"

Date: 04 15 1865
Description: Banner from newspaper from the day after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Manuscript

"Extra!... Sad News for the Nation. Lincoln Assassinated."

Date: 04 15 1865
Description: Newsprint extra about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It appeared on the back page of publication with a time line of events as they occurred.
Magazine or Periodical

Depictions of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Date: 04 29 1865
Description: Illustrations on the "National Police Gazette" front page depicting various events regarding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Manuscript

Will Buy Famous Baraboo Mound

Date: 12 28 1906
Description: Newspaper article about the purchase of land for a park related to Man Mound in Sauk County accompanied by a line drawing of the mound. Article clipped fro...
Photograph

Vel Phillips and Milwaukee NAACP

Date: 
Description: Vel Phillips being carried on the shoulders of Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council members. On the right is Father James Groppi speaking into a microphone on a p...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Test Flight Made by Lawson Plane

Date: 08 23 1919
Description: Newspaper article describing the test flight of Alfred Lawson's first transcontinental airplane. This article was copied and framed in a scrapbook related ...
Photograph

Electric Company Strike Negotiations

Date: 12 30 1966
Description: Three men are sitting together at a table. The man in the middle appears to be writing on a document, while the man on his right is talking to him. Caption...
Photograph

Latvian Culture Exhibit

Date: 06 10 1968
Description: A person is bending over to examine a costume on a mannequin. Caption reads: "A national traveling exhibit on Latvian culture was on view Saturday a...
Photograph

High School Job Fair

Date: 05 14 1968
Description: Three young women are sitting on one side of a table facing two men and a woman, whose backs are to the camera. Similar arrangements of groups are in the b...

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