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John Nuwi

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Description: Three-quarter length formal portrait in front of a painted backdrop of John Nuwi, a Mascouten (or Prairie) Potawatomi, who lived at Skunk Hill in Wood Coun...
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Osage Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Black Bow's wife, with infant in a papoose, and Saucy Chief's squaw.
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Spirit of the Northwest Monument

Date: 1950
Description: "Spirit of the Northwest" monument by Sidney Bedore, on the grounds of the Brown County Court House. Represented, left to right: a member of the Fox Tribe,...
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Room at Rockford College

Date: 1889
Description: A room at Rockford College with a table and chair, and several stringed instruments.
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Gundry, Gray and Company Store

Date: 1875
Description: The Gundry, Gray and Company store. The building was erected in 1841 and the dog on the sign was added in 1871.
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Taliesin

Date: 1930
Description: Close-up view of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's residence and studio. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin.
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Woman Ringing Bell

Date: 1918
Description: A woman standing on a porch is shielding her eyes from the sun as she is ringing a bell (dinner bell?). A child is standing next to her under a clothesline...
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Julius Schadauer Store

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Description: View from street towards a man standing in front of the doorway to the Julius Schadauer's tobacco store on a street corner at 101 State Street. A man is on...
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Milwaukee Public Library and Museum

Date: 1940
Description: The building has many classical architectural elements, including a dome. There is a large totem pole in front of the building. Pedestrians are walking on ...
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Fred Stone in an Early Automobile.

Date: 1905
Description: Comic actor Fred Stone holding the tiller of an early two-seat runabout. The automobile may be a Woods Electric or Woods Dual Power. Stone had been a circu...
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Old Abe Composite

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Description: Composite paste-up intended to represent "Old Abe," eagle mascot of the Eighth Wisconsin Regiment in the Civil War with his bearer. At the Northwest Sanita...
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Zebulon Pike

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Description: Copy of a steel engraved portrait of Zebulon Montgomery Pike.
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Scene Still of Florence Lawrence and Owen Moore in "The Advent of Jane"

Date: 1912
Description: Dr. Jane Bixby (played by Florence Lawrence), wearing a white duster and with her medical bag by her feet, wraps a bandage around a child's ankle on the po...
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Lewis Anderson

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Description: Full-length cabinet card portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Lewis Anderson, a private in Company G, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following informat...
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Ole Everson Luten and Andrew Ellickson

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Description: Full-length cabinet card portrait in front of a painted backdrop of (right) Ole Everson Luten [as on the photograph backing; also written as Ole Everson on...
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Dorothy Lillian Solomon and Lillian Russell

Date: 1886
Description: Half-length portrait of actress and singer Lillian Russell with her young daughter Dorothy Lillian Solomon, who later performed under the name Dorothy Russ...
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Owen Moore, Florene Lawrence, and two other actors

Date: 1912
Description: The farmer's wife (played by an unidentified actress) and hired hand (Owen Moore) cower as Betty the cook (Florence Lawrence) threatens to dose the wife wi...
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Florence Lawrence and Owen More in a kitchen scene still

Date: 1912
Description: The farm's hired hand John (played by Owen Moore) carefully approaches Betty the cook (Florence Lawrence) who has fallen asleep while peeling a potato in a...
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Studio Portrait of Seated Man

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of European American man posed sitting. He has his right ankle crossed over his left leg at the ...
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Unidentified Man

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of European American man posed sitting. He is wearing a dark-colored suit coat, vest, and striped n...

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