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State Fair Side Show Attractions

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Description: State Fair barker announcing side show attractions to a crowd of children, featuring "Midget City, the World's Tiniest Entertainers" and "Baby Thelma, 619 ...
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Picnic Tea Party

Date: 1890
Description: A woman pours tea for her friends seated outdoors at a table.
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Herbert Kellar and Clifford Lord

Date: 12 1951
Description: State Historical Society of Wisconsin Director Clifford Lord (left) and McCormick Collection Director Herbert Kellar examining packages of manuscripts. The...
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Patients at Wisconsin State Tuberculosis Sanitorium

Date: 1908
Description: View of a group of men dressed in winter clothes, under blankets, sitting in an outdoor porch at the Wisconsin State Tuberculosis Sanitorium in Wales. Capt...
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John Brady

Date: 1850
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of John Brady of Virginia, son of Captain Samuel Brady. Half-length, facing front with torso turned slightly to right.
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Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. with Boy Scouts

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Description: Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. participating in a ceremony in front of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin with a large group of Boy Scouts and Boy Scout lead...
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Paul Vanderbilt

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Description: Paul Vanderbilt works at a table in the Iconography Section at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Stacks of photographs and boxes cover the table, along wit...
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Group Portrait of the Division of Historic Preservation

Date: 09 20 1990
Description: Group portrait of the Division of Historic Preservation at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Names, back row, l to r: Dan Duchrow, Rick Dexter, Brian McCor...
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Closing the East Entrance

Date: 08 19 1954
Description: View of a worker laying concrete blocks to close off one of the three front entrances to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin headquarters building. A...
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Donald McNeil with State Historical Society Vehicle

Date: 1955
Description: Don McNeil standing inside the open passenger door of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin's first fleet vehicle, a Ford Ranch Wagon. The vehicle is p...
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TV Museum

Date: 05 25 1955
Description: Keith Hinsman, Tyke Hooke, and John Jacques discuss an Inuit pipe for TV Museum. A WHA-TV camera filming the discussion is in the foreground, and an...
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Historymobile Visitors

Date: 09 17 1955
Description: Vistors entering and exiting the Wisconsin Historical Society Historymobile parked at Point Beach State Park.
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Wigwam Diorama — State Historical Society

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Description: Text on back reads: "Interior of a Wisconsin Indian wigwam about 1600 A.D. Diorama at the Museum, State Historical Society of Wisconsin."
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Edward Porter Alexander

Date: 01 26 1954
Description: Caption reads: "Edward Porter Alexander (1907- ). Supt. (Director) of the State Hist. Soc. of Wis., 1941-1946. Photocopy of an oil portrait by James S. Wat...
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Edward Alexander and Colleagues

Date: 1942
Description: A man is sitting at a desk holding a document to show it to a man and a woman standing beside him. Caption reads: "Dr. Edward P. Alexander, Director of the...
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Edward Alexander and Benton Wilcox

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Description: Portrait of Edward Alexander, director of the Wisconsin Historical Society, holding a reel of microfilm, and Benton Wilcox, librarian of the Wisconsin Hist...
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Edward P. Alexander

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Edward Alexander, director of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

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