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Investigation of Unemployed

Date: 1909
Description: The Easter week investigation of unemployment conditions with Professor Ross's class showing five children lined up by wooden fence with buildings in the b...
Photograph

New Jersey College of Pharmacy

Date: 1925
Description: View of the exterior of the New Jersey College of Pharmacy grounds.
Photograph

Historic Site Marker

Date: 1926
Description: Historic site marker commemorating the first permanent home in Baraboo. The inscription reads, "On this site in 1840, the first permanent home in Baraboo ...
Photograph

St. Louis Catholic Church

Date: 1945
Description: View of St. Louis Catholic Church.
Photograph

Confederate Burial Monument

Date: 1950
Description: A monument to dead Confederate soldiers and Mrs. Alice W. Waterman at the entrance to "Confederate Rest" in the Forest Hill Cemetery. This monument was er...
Postcard

Baptist Church

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view of a Baptist church. Caption reads: "Baptist Ch. Wausau Wis."
Print

Republican House

Date: 1954
Description: View of the Republican House and Restaurant and surrounding grounds with an inset of the "Little White Schoolhouse" on the lower left side.
Photograph

Leo Capser at Ashland Depot

Date: 
Description: Leo Capser standing in front of passenger train at the Ashland Depot.
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Lighting Plant

Date: 
Description: A man stands in front of the small building with a bicycle parked behind him, and a house in the background.
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Little Big Horn Survivor

Date: 1949
Description: German-born Charles Windolph, a Medal of Honor winner, a veteran of the Seventh Cavalry, and the last living survivor of the Big Horn Campaign, photographe...
Photograph

Portrait of Mary E. Smith

Date: 1903
Description: Portrait of Mary E. Smith sitting outdoors on the grass in front of a flower bush. She is wearing an ornate hat decorated with roses.
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Brochure

Date: 1882
Description: Front and back cover of brochure. Front cover includes an illustration of a man using an agricultural implement in a field drawn by two horses, and lists o...
Book or Pamphlet

Marsh-Whitney Platform Binder Brochure

Date: 1883
Description: Front cover and 2-page spread of 3 panel brochure. The spread is a color illustration of the Platform Twine Binder.
Photograph

Rain Gear

Date: 1911
Description: A young man wearing rain gear standing by a canoe and boxes of supplies.
Photograph

Boy with Canoe

Date: 1911
Description: Howard T. Greene standing by a canoe preparing to launch.
Photograph

Photographer Howard Greene

Date: 1911
Description: Howard "Dad" Greene makes photographs of the scenery with his Grafflex camera. He is wearing a hat and smoking a pipe.
Photograph

Clay Judson Shaves

Date: 1911
Description: Carl useing the camera tripod as a base for the mirror he's using as he is shaving.
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Bathing

Date: 1911
Description: Carl, and one of The Gang standing with a dog, are bathing in Sturgeon Lake. Another man is standing on the shore.
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Carl Has a Meal

Date: 1911
Description: Carl is sitting on a rock with a plate of food on his lap. His dog Diadem (Di) is at his side. One of the men is sitting behind them.
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Indian Boy

Date: 1910
Description: An Indian boy posing wearing a feathered headdress and a beaded bandolier in front of the doorway of a building. He is in an Indian village at the mouth of...

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