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Clara Bewick Colby

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Clara Bewick Colby.
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Creek and Cherokee Woman

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Description: Miss Nina Porter, the niece of General Porter, born to a Creek father and a Cherokee mother.
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Governor Dreyfus Christmas Card

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Description: Photographic Christmas card from Governor and Mrs. Lee Sherman Dreyfus, governor of Wisconsin 1979-1983. Front of card depicts the governor and his wife in...
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Thore Knudson

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Description: Head and shoulders studio portrait of Thore Knudson, a musician in Company E, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following information was obtained from the Regi...
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Moline Model D Universal Tractor Booklet

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising the Moline Model D Universal Tractor featuring a color illustration of a man using the tractor and plow in a farm fiel...
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Professor Richard Ely

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Description: Waist-up portrait of Professor Richard Ely, head professor of political economy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Geared Rotary Honey Extractor Advertisement

Date: 1872
Description: Advertisement for the Improved Geared Rotary Honey Extractor for 1872. Manufactured by Gray and Winder of Cincinnati, OH. Illustrations of two different mo...
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R.M.S. Lusitania Menu

Date: 09 07 1907
Description: Dinner menu from the maiden voyage of the R.M.S. Lusitania from Liverpool to New York, with a flag with a lion rampant in a decorative cartouche and...
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Banquet to President Porfirio Diaz Menu

Date: 1896
Description: Front cover and interior of banquet menu for Mexican President Porfirio Diaz, to celebrate the construction of a drainage canal between Lake Texcoco and La...
Drawing

Card on Unrequited Love and Loss

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Description: Pen-and-ink drawing of an eye with a single tear superimposed on a doily heart decorated with stars. Piercing the heart from top to bottom is a sword. Two ...
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Chief Daniel Bread

Date: 1911
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Daniel Bread, an Oneida political leader who was known for collaboration and compromise with the United States government an...
Photograph

Edward Alsworth Ross

Date: 1923
Description: UW-Madison sociology professor Edward Alsworth Ross poses in the doorway of a building.
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Edward Alsworth Ross with Chinese Friends

Date: 1910
Description: UW-Madison sociology professor Edward Alsworth Ross poses between two men. Behind them is a building with a sign that reads: "[?]: ten thousand-year law/[?...
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Edward Alsworth Ross

Date: 1886
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Edward Alsworth Ross as a young man.

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