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Railroad Depot

Date: 1900
Description: View across railroad tracks towards passengers, a large group of men and one young girl, waiting on the platform at the train station for the train to arri...
Photograph

Elevated View of Railroad Depot

Date: 08 1902
Description: Elevated view of the railroad depot taken from the wooden shake roof of a building. On the right are railroad tracks, depot buildings, grain storage and a ...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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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Aerial View of North East Campus of University

Date: 07 07 1954
Description: Aerial view of group of buildings on the north east campus of the University of Wisconsin, including the Historical Library, University Library, old Scienc...
Photograph

Pontalba Hearse at House on the Rock

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Description: The Pontalba Hearse, made of carved wood displayed behind a fence. This image was used in the original brochure for the House on the Rock.
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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 ...
Photograph

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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Gisholt Commercial Art

Date: 02 1947
Description: Illustrative art showing a close-up of a man's dress shoe strapped onto a roller skate with leather bindings. A pants cuff and hint of an argyle sock are v...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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 ...
Poster

"The Silent Avenger" Lobby Card

Date: 1927
Description: Lobby card for the film "The Silent Avenger." A man in pajamas and wearing a top hat is sitting on a bed playing a trombone. Thunder the dog is sitting nex...
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...
Map or Atlas

Diagram of the Assembly Chamber

Date: 1866
Description: Diagram and seating chart for the Wisconsin State Assembly in the second State Capitol Building which burned down in 1904..
Photograph

Wisconsin Dairy Farm

Date: 10 05 1948
Description: Aerial photograph of the Baumgartner Dairy Farm, one half mile east of Three Lakes, WI.
Print

Humanity Flag

Date: 02 1918
Description: Print of the Humanity Flag, a combination of the U.S. French, and British flags to symbolize the alliance of the three countries.

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