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Syttende Mai

Date: 1875
Description: Large group at Syttende Mai celebration. Group posing with what may be the national and merchant flag of Norway flag. A number of people are holding croque...
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Drafting the Declaration of Independence

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Description: An engraving of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Philip Livingston, and Roger Sherman, drafters of the Declaration of Independence gathered...
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Alfred C. Clas

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of Alfred C. Clas (1859-1942), Milwaukee architect whose firm designed the Wisconsin Historical Society Headquarters building. The architectural f...
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Practical Joke

Date: 1950
Description: Mounted on a ladder, a man is poised to empty a bucket onto the open umbrella of a man sitting on a sidewalk bench.
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Peterson Family at Home

Date: 1915
Description: Mr. Peterson is sitting in a rocking chair reading the newspaper and smoking a pipe, while Mrs. Peterson is standing at the stove with their young son, Jam...
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Portrait of Tabaiwatang or De-Bwawen-Dunk

Date: 02 1901
Description: Studio portrait of Tabaiwatang or De-Bwawen-Dunk (Sound of Eating), called John, in partial native dress with ornaments and fan. Part of Algonquian and Chi...
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Apiary of Sophia Leonard

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Description: Sophia Leonard's 185 colony apiary.
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Stacy Apiaries

Date: 1916
Description: Stacy Apiaries with beehives in the foreground and a house and people in the background.
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Man with Stack of Papers

Date: 1922
Description: An office worker, most likely an employee of International Harvester, stands behind a table with his hand held on top of a stack of papers.
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Tractor and Golfer on Golf Course

Date: 05 26 1928
Description: A man on a Fairway tractor with a mower waits while a golfer tees off at a golf course.
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Man Reading in Rocking Chair

Date: 1923
Description: Mr. Lutfring sitting in a wicker rocking chair while reading a newspaper. The room is furnished with an upholstered divan, lamp with fringe shade, carpetin...
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Soil and Crop Improvement Association

Date: 1918
Description: A man is leaning on the passenger side of an automobile marked: "Kankakee County Soil and Crop Improvement Association." Another man is sitting inside. The...
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Blue Plum Tree

Date: 08 1895
Description: A man poses with his four-year-old Lombard blue plum tree in his fruit orchard in Sawyer, near Door County. The image of the man appears to be composited i...
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Blue Plum Tree (negative)

Date: 08 1985
Description: A negative version of Blue Plum Tree, illustrating the staining and composite nature of the original negative.
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Muscoda High School Basketball Team

Date: 1903
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Muscoda High School Girls Basketball Team and their coach. The frame has the S. Gillett imprint, but ...
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R.M.S. Mauretania Dinner Menu

Date: 08 30 1951
Description: Dinner menu from the R.M.S. Mauretania, with a watercolor illustration of a thatched-roof cottage and a large tree near a bend in the road. Other ho...
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Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hobbins Wedding

Date: 1902
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hobbins smile at one another and hold hands as a full-length wedding portrait is taken. She is standing, and he is sitting in a chair on...
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Irving Brown in an Ice Boat

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Description: View across ice towards a man identified as Irving Brown sitting in an ice boat on a lake. Large houses are in the background along the shoreline.
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John and Belle Mengel

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Description: Oval-framed studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman and man posing sitting together. The woman is sitting on the arm of the chair, and is...
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"Posking" (Chippewa)

Date: 10 15 1907
Description: Outdoor portrait of a man standing outside the open door of a wooden home with one hand on his hip, and in his other hand holding what may be a pipe restin...

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