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Painting

Reid House

Date: 1842
Description: Watercolor of the Reid House, residence of William Reid at the head of Big Foot Lake (Lake Geneva). Two children and a woman are in the foreground.
Photograph

Salesman at Drugstore

Date: 1889
Description: Junior Jones acts as a salesman at the 30th Street & Broadway branch of the J.N. Hegeman & Co. Drugstore.
Photograph

Showing Wares to a Customer

Date: 1889
Description: Druggist Junior Jones shows a customer some items from the J.N. Hegeman Pharmacy, 1218 Broadway.
Photograph

Native Americans and Whites

Date: 
Description: An unexplained group consisting of two white men, two white children, and two Native American women standing in front of a tent. The original caption stat...
Photograph

Isabel Bacon La Follette

Date: 1920
Description: Studio portrait of Isabel Bacon La Follette, familiarly known as Isen, taken about one year before her graduation from the University of Wisconsin. She ma...
Photograph

Pharmaceutical Laboratory

Date: 1890
Description: Interior view of the pharmaceutical laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Photograph

Signed Arnold Gesell Portrait

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Arnold Gesell, which includes his autograph.
Print

Matthew Fontaine Maury, Scientist and Historian

Date: 1855
Description: Engraved portrait of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873) American astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and ...
Document

"Wisconsin. What It Offers to the Immigrant" Report

Date: 1879
Description: Blue cover design of an official report entitled "Wisconsin. What It Offers to the Immigrant".
Photograph

Waukesha Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Waukesha Public Library. In the foreground is a chandelier hanging from a tall ceiling. Three columns frame a room with bay windows.
Print

Col. O.C. Johnson

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Description: Head and shoulders steel engraved portrait of Ole C. Johnson, a colonel in the 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following information was obtained from the Reg...
Photograph

William F. and Conrad Petersen

Date: 1926
Description: William F. Petersen holds his son Conrad in the waters of Geneva Lake off the shore of Black Point. There are sailboats in the background.
Photograph

Conrad Petersen

Date: 1926
Description: Conrad Petersen steps off the pier onto the shore at Black Point Estate. A small boat is moored to the shore in the background under a tree trunk leaning ...

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