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Lake Michigan Freighter

Date: 1910
Description: Lake Michigan freighter with smoke billowing from smokestack. View from from bow looking back toward stern.
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Loading Pine Logs

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Description: Workers loading pine logs in northern Wisconsin when there was still virgin timber for logging.
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Man Driving International Model M Highwheeler Truck

Date: 1912
Description: Man driving an International Model M highwheeler with the Chicago skyline in the background. The Model M, introduced in 1915, was rated at 1000 pounds carr...
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Governor Kohler Waving

Date: 1930
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler, Sr., riding in an open car during a parade, probably in Marinette.
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Shooting at Pennies

Date: 1898
Description: Children shoot at pennies with arrows at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.
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Isabel Bacon La Follette

Date: 1938
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Isabel Bacon La Follette, Mrs. Philip F. La Follette, dating from the year in which her husband ran unsuccessfully for re-electi...
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Stove-Wood House

Date: 1920
Description: House built of stove-wood by David Williams in 1848-49.
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Stout State College Industrial Arts Building

Date: 1900
Description: The Stout State College Industrial Arts Building, rebuilt after a fire destroyed the original building in 1897. A clock tower is at the front left corner o...
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Okauchee House

Date: 1936
Description: Okauchee House main entrance detail. Printed on plaque: "880".
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Woman Displaying an International Harvester Motor Coach

Date: 05 28 1925
Description: A woman dressed in furs, patterned dress, and high heels is posing in front of an International Harvester motor coach, or bus. She seems to be pointing to ...
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Gate at Deutscher Club

Date: 1940
Description: Formerly the home of Alexander Mitchell, at West Wisconsin Avenue and Tenth Street; in 1917 it became the Wisconsin Club. Entrance gate in the winter. Wr...
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Building Entrance

Date: 1940
Description: Entrance to large home. Part of porch as well as side of house visible. Curved stairs lead up to the porch. Door flanked by columns with highly detailed c...
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Sketch of Civil War Soldier

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Description: Marginal sketch of a soldier on guard from original letters written by Private Edmund F. Bennet of Newport, Wisconsin, Company E, 12th Wisconsin Volunteers...
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Mary MacLaren and Two Dachshunds

Date: 06 1919
Description: Original caption: "Now that the peace has been declared Mary MacLaren feels she can publicly pet dachshunds without being accused of treason."
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Woman with Dumbwaiter

Date: 1920
Description: Mrs. John Bowers removing a plate of food from the dumbwaiter in her Benton County farmhouse.
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Reel Action

Date: 1935
Description: Two men, one standing one crouching, in a wooden rowboat on Forest Lake. The man standing is reeling in a fish that is making a big splash in the water.
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Lake Samoset

Date: 1935
Description: Two people canoeing near the shoreline of Lake Samoset.
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Family Standing in front of Climbing Plant

Date: 1920
Description: Family, including a man, two boys and a girl, standing in front of a farm house and a large climbing plant.
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Ship "Alex B. Uhrig" at Reiss Coal Dock No. 2

Date: 1930
Description: View of the ship "Alex B. Uhrig" in the process of coal unloading on the Reiss Coal Dock No. 2.
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Juan and Eva Perón Dinner Menu

Date: 03 24 1951
Description: Menu mounted on gold-bordered board with the enameled metal coat of arms of Argentina affixed to the front cover and inscriptions from Juan ("A Mr Altmeyer...

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