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Parlor in "The House Next Door"

Date: 07 19 1933
Description: Parlor decorated in 1840s style in Ralph Warner's "The House Next Door." aka the Lovejoy-Duncan House, 11219 North Webster Street, showing piano and firepl...
Photograph

Cooksville Cornhuskers Baseball Team

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of Cooksville Cornhuskers baseball team in front of a painted backdrop. Top left to right: Unknown, Johnny Sweeney, Tim McCarthy(?), Charle...
Photograph

Beloit First Congregational Church

Date: 1960
Description: Interior of Beloit First Congregational Church. View from aisle towards the organ and altar.
Photograph

Wilson Theater

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior view of Wilson Theater. Standing on sidewalk from left to right are: Delia Berry Wilson, Orpha Wilson, Robert Paul Hollis, and Robert Henry Wilson...
Book or Pamphlet

Lost Camera Sign

Date: 1903
Description: Sign posted on a fence announcing a lost camera near the town of Prairie du Sac and requesting its return to Herbert Fowler.
Photograph

"Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention"

Date: 10 24 1970
Description: A poster advertising a concert by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention at the Beloit College Field House, October 24, 1970.
Photograph

Janesville Public Library

Date: 1903
Description: Interior view of the Janesville Public Library. There is large librarian's desk, with a bust of Abraham Lincoln to the right. Behind the desk are two colum...
Photograph

Edwin O. Kimberly

Date: 1900
Description: Photographic calling card of Colonel Edwin O. Kimberly. During the Civil War he was in the 3rd Wisconsin Infantry. It is noted on the card that he was the ...
Photograph

Locomotive Engine No. 1277

Date: 05 27 1938
Description: Right side view of the engine no. 1277, a steam locomotive of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company.
Photograph

Locomotive Engine No. 2872

Date: 1937
Description: Left side view of the locomotive engine no. 2872, a steam locomotive of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company.
Photograph

Locomotive Engine No. 2871

Date: 1938
Description: Left side view of locomotive engine no. 2871, a steam locomotive of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company.
Photograph

Dane County Homecrafters

Date: 03 06 1956
Description: Harold W. Rucks, of Edgerton sits in a wheel chair while working at a table jig saw. Rucks, who had been severely crippled for 17 years with rheumatiod art...
Photograph

Norwegian Lutheran Church

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of the Norwegian Lutheran Church with steeple. The church has arched stained glass windows in the front and on the sides, and is surrounded b...
Photograph

Rath Church Decorating Service

Date: 10 31 1958
Description: Portrait of Clemens Rath, head of Rath Church Decorating Service, 3331 University Avenue, standing beside a glass mosaic window made by the firm for St. Pa...
Photograph

Rath Church Decorating Service

Date: 10 31 1958
Description: View of one of the 14 stations-of-the-cross glass mosaic panels recently installed at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Janesville. In this panel, Christ is...
Postcard

Second Congregational Church

Date: 1906
Description: Colorized postcard view of the exterior of the Second Congregational Church. Caption reads: "Second Congregational Church, Beloit, Wis."
Postcard

Morse Library, Beloit College

Date: 1965
Description: Photographic postcard of the exterior view of the Colonel Robert H. Morse Library at Beloit College.
Map or Atlas

Beloit College Campus

Date: 1949
Description: This map of the Beloit College Campus is a pictorial depiction of the layout of campus including buildings and students depicted as Shmoos (popular cartoon...
Photograph

Beulah Irene Miller and Charles Thomas wedding portrait

Date: 1912
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Beulah Irene Miller (1888-1958) and Charles Buy Thomas (1879-1925), a dairy farmer, posing in...
Photograph

Beulah Irene Miller in High School Graduation Dress

Date: 1906
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Beulah Irene Miller dressed for her graduation from Evansville (Wisconsin) High School. Her l...

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