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| Description: | Quarter-length formal oval painting of Samuel Marshall, (1820-1907), banker, co-founder and President of the Marshall & Ilsley Bank. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | A pharmacist is standing behind the sales counter at the Pharmacie Werner in Boulay, France. At the time, Boulay was part of Germany. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing outside of Soldiers' Orphans Home, located on Spaight Street between Paterson and Brearly Streets. The building was originally const... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | This composite portrait of David G. Farragut, William T. Sherman, George H. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, George G. Meade, Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Hooker, Phil... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Magnus Swenson. He was a Norwegian immigrant who made his name in business and as an inventor. He served on the Wisconsin Capitol Buildi... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Employees of the business office of the Insurance Department. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View from the foot of Carroll Street with the Angle Worm Station at Barnes boat landing on Lake Monona. Shows the Scutt II taken from the first succ... |
| Date: | 07 30 1965 |
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| Description: | President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Medicare bill. Former President Harry S. Truman, "who started it all," is present with Mrs. Bess Truman, Hubert H... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | The Insurance Building, located at 119-123 Monona Avenue. |
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| Description: | A portrait of a young woman wearing a hat and dress, and holding a bouquet of flowers, standing in a clearing. In the background is the darkroom horse-draw... |
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| Description: | A hand-drawn poster, including a star design and two photographs, advertising Oak Hill Farm, founded by Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Harris. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Children of unemployed members of the Amalgamated Clothing workers picket with their parents to protest low-wage clothing imports. They carry signs that re... |
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| Description: | View from across street of storefront of Wm. C. Raue. at 202 Main Street. Signs on the building say: "Wallpaper, Paints, Oils." |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Bunde & Upmeyer jewelers with a drawing of a butterfly-winged faerie holding a jeweled nacklace and hovering among several gemstones. The... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Gray tractor "with the Wide Drive Drum." The color illustration depicts a man using the tractor to work in a fiel... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertisement for Best tractors featuring a color illustration of a man using a plow pulled by two oxen to work in a field. The headline ... |
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| Description: | View from street of the Farmers and Merchants Bank after a fire. All that's left standing is its neo-classical marble facade with columns framing a doorway... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Boy dressed in work clothes and covered with soot from working in a mine. He wears a hat with a rudimentary lantern on top. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Martin James Gillen, Racine-born business leader, economist, and philanthropist. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Arthur J. Altmeyer, a key figure in the creation of the United States Social Security system. Altmeyer was a student of John R. Commons at UW-M... |
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