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Iowa's First Flyer

Date: 03 1909
Description: Carl Bates in his airplane. The bottom half of the card shows the beginning of a race between Bates' invention and an automobile. Bates was from Clear Lake...
Photograph

Amund Pederson

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Description: A waist-up studio portrait of Amund Pederson, a private in Company G, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform holding a musket across his chest. The following ...
Print

Centennial Exposition Brochure

Date: 1948
Description: Color brochure advertising the 1948 Wisconsin State Fair. For the centennial of Wisconsin statehood Wisconsin spent over 5 Million dollars on fourteen new ...
Photograph

Big Manitou Falls, Pattison State Park

Date: 1890
Description: Big Manitou Falls on the Black River. This waterfall reportedly was called "Gitchee Monido" by the Ojibwa, which means "Falls of the Great Spirit."
Book or Pamphlet

Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

Date: 1917
Description: Cover design of a pamphlet of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), "an urgent call to real men from the imperial palace" in Atlanta, Ga., Col. W. J. Simm...
Book or Pamphlet

White Book Kloran Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

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Description: Cover design of a pamphlet which includes the text "White Book/ Kloran/ K-Uno/ Karacter Honor Duty" and features a drawing of a Ku Klux Klansman (KKK) wear...
Photograph

Ole Evenson Luten

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Description: Quarter-length oval studio portrait of Ole Everson Luten [as on the photograph backing; also written as Ole Everson on Descriptive Rolls, Volume 20, and on...
Photograph

Jens Anderson

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Description: Head and shoulders oval portrait of Jens Anderson, a private in Company I, Wisconsin 15 Infantry. The following information was obtained from the Regimenta...
Photograph

Ben Nelson

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Description: Full-length oval portrait of Ben Nelson [as written on the photograph backing; also written as Ben Nilson on Descriptive Rolls, Volume 20 and published ro...
Photograph

John F. Hauff

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Description: Vignetted head and shoulders oval studio portrait of John F. Hauff, a private in Company K, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following information was obtained...

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