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Senta III

Date: 07 1959
Description: View across water of the Senta III, owned by Ernst Schmidt of Black Point Estate, competes in the Class A Regatta at Pewaukee Lake. The skipper is B...
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Horse-Drawn Binders in Barnyard or Dealership

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of approximately 19 McCormick horse-drawn binders in a barnyard of a very large farm, or of a dealership. There are buildings behind a fence ...
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Music of Yesterday at House on the Rock

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Description: The Music of Yesterday exhibit at House on the Rock was used in a brochure. The exhibit is "Presenting the magnificent machines of a magnificent era, 1765 ...
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Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art of two female factory workers speaking to each other. The woman on the left is in three-quarter view. She has her arm raised with index fi...
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Women's Group Portrait

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop, and a draped tapestry or cloth, of six women, sitting or standing around a table. One woman at the table ap...
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Band Group Portrait

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Description: Studio portrait of band members, posing in their uniforms and with their instruments. Two young boys are sitting in the front of the group. The insignia on...
Poster

"Argentine Love" Lobby Card

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Description: Lobby card for the 1924 film "Argentine Love" starring Bebe Daniels and Ricardo Cortez. The woman in the center has a look of fear on her face as people ar...
Poster

"The Ice Flood" Lobby Card

Date: 1926
Description: Lobby card for the film "The Ice Flood." The main image shows a man standing over another man in a makeshift boxing ring with a crowd all around them. The ...
Photograph

Hasn't Missed an Election

Date: 11 08 1966
Description: An older woman and a younger woman talking in front of a voting machine. Caption reads: "HASN'T MISSED AN ELECTION — Mrs. Mary Sturm, 71, of 820 E. Ogden a...
Poster

Save 100,000 Babies In 1918

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an image of a child wrapping her arms around woman's neck. Text on left reads: "150,000 Children under the age of 6 die every year from pr...
Photograph

Track Team

Date: 1905
Description: Herbert Paul Brumder, middle row, second from left, posing with his teammates from the Milwaukee Academy track team. Brumder has identified other members o...
Photograph

Irving Berlin

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Description: Portrait from above of Irving Berlin sitting at a piano. Berlin has his hands on the keyboard, as if playing, and is looking up at the camera. The handwrit...
Poster

Imitation of Life lobby card

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Description: Lobby card for the 1959 film "Imitation of Life" starring Lana Turner, Sandra Dee, and Juanita Moore. The image on the card shows Lora Meredith (Lana Turn...
Poster

Suddenly, Last Summer lobby card

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Description: Lobby card for the 1959 film "Suddenly, Last Summer" starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift. The card shows Catherine Holly (El...
Photograph

N. Webster Street at N. Hamilton Street

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Description: View towards intersection.
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Richard Burton as Alexander the Great

Date: 1956
Description: Richard Burton poses, in costume, next to a plaque of Alexander the Great. Burton wears a curly blonde wig for the title role of the 1956 film "Alexander ...
Photograph

Richard Burton in "Alexander the Great"

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Description: Richard Burton, as Alexander the Great, stands with his arms upraised surrounded by soldiers with shields and very long lances in a scene from the 1956 fil...
Poster

Lobby Card for "The Street of Forgotten Men"

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Description: Lobby card for the 1925 film "The Street of Forgotten Men". An older woman, sitting and wearing a nice dress and hat, is grabbing the arm of a young man st...
Poster

Johnny Comes Flying Home lobby card

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Description: Lobby card for the 1946 film Johnny Comes Flying Home. Harry Morgan and Charles Russell pilot a plane while Richard Crane stands between them. They are a...

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