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Curley, Gen. Custer's Scout

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Description: Native American in native dress, two braids wrapped in fur, multi-strand beaded necklace. Caption reads: "Curley, Gen. Custer's Scout."
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Frederick Douglass

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Description: An engraving of a young Frederick Douglass.
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Three Men and Stringed Instruments

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Description: Three men, two of them standing with string instruments and the other seated.
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Chinese Sporting Goods Factory

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Description: Propaganda photograph received from China Features in Peking by the Southern Patriot newspaper published in Louisville, Kentucky. The photograph illustrat...
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Portrait of Fred Pabst

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Description: "Pabst, Frederick (Mar. 28, 1836-Jan. 1, 1904), brewer, business executive, b. Thuringia, Germany. He migrated with his parents to the U.S. and to Milwauke...
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Novak Reading Newspaper

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Description: Journalist Robert Novak catching up on the news.
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F.M. Smith with Power Unit

Date: 1937
Description: Mr. F.M. Smith, in a bow tie, hat, and trousers with suspenders, stands near the open door of a barn or shed. Inside is his International P-12 power unit.
Photograph

Thure Kumlien at Work

Date: 1887
Description: Thure Kumlien at his work table in the Milwaukee Public Museum. Kumlien is surrounded by taxidermied birds and is at work stuffing another.
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Larson Family Living in Trailer

Date: 11 16 1951
Description: The Larson family, including a mother, father, and two children, are sitting in the living room of their mobile home (probably at Truax Field trailer camp)...
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Walter L. Houser

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Walter Houser, wearing a polka-dotted bow tie.
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Michael Dousman

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Description: Photograph of a painted quarter-length portrait of Michael Dousman.
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Holocaust Survivor, Harry Gordon

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Description: Harry Gordon was born in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, on July 15, 1925. He was the only child of an Orthodox Jewish family with deep roots in Lithuania. In t...
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Studio Portrait of William Tennant

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Description: Studio portrait of William Tennant sitting and wearing a suit and hat in front of a painted backdrop. He was a newspaper and magazine agent in Black River ...
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Printer at RC Printing

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Description: John Maas, a printer at RC Printing, poses at work.
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George W. Bush at Rally

Date: 05 07 2004
Description: President George W. Bush speaks at rally.
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Barber in Barbershop

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Description: Portrait of male barber, Ken Garves, posing behind his barber chair.
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Tommy Thompson

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Description: Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Health & Human Services (2001-2005) being interviewed while on a visit to La Crosse.
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Hosea Rood

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Hosea Rood.
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Portrait of Hugh Claiborne Adams

Date: 1894
Description: Carte-de-visite of a three-quarter length portrait of Hugh Claiborne Adams, age 18, dressed in coattails with his arm on the back of an elaborately carved ...
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Portrait of Morrill Dunn in Uniform

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Description: Waist-up portrait of Morrill Dunn dressed in a United States Army dress uniform.

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