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WMAQ Radio Station

Date: 1924
Description: Interior of WMAQ Radio Station with Chief Engineer Donald Weller standing.
Painting

Joshua E. Dodge

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Description: Joshua E. Dodge.
Photograph

Man Delivers Lecture on Tuberculosis in front of Church

Date: 04 1924
Description: Man appearing to deliver a lecture on tuberculosis prepared by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. The man is pointing to an "agri...
Photograph

Preacher Delivers Sermon on Tuberculosis

Date: 04 1924
Description: Preacher Chas V. Reed delivering a sermon on tuberculosis in conjunction with an International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department lecture. Mr. Ree...
Photograph

Wright Flyer in England

Date: 1938
Description: After his "mistaken" trans-Atlantic flight to Great Britain, Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan visited the original 1903 Wright Flyer then on display at the Sci...
Photograph

Clara Bewick Colby and Group

Date: 06 1913
Description: Clara Bewick Colby posing with a large group of women in Vienna.
Photograph

Family Outside of Stone House

Date: 1876
Description: Family of sixe seated in front of large stone house that has glass trim around the centrally placed door. Lightning rods are on the two chimneys. A man on ...
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Arthur McArthur

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Description: Judge Arthur McArthur (1815-1896). Grandfather of General Douglas MacArthur and Wisconsin's fourth governor.
Photograph

Brown and Telex

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Description: Journalist Cecil Brown reading communication being printed on a telex machine.
Photograph

Wedding at Black Point

Date: 06 13 1953
Description: Claire Chapin, granddaughter of Clara Seipp Bartholomay, with her husband, William Frederick Carr, on their wedding day at Black Point Estate. Geneva Lake ...
Photograph

Professor J.H. Persey

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a European American man, with a moustache, posing standing with his legs crossed and leaning ...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of a Man with a Trumpet

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified man posing standing and holding a trumpet.
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Alvin Baldus

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Congressman Alvin Baldus. Baldus served in the U.S. House of Representatives from the Wisconsin 3rd Congressional Distric...
Print

Vignette of Alexander Randall

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Description: Small vignette of an oval framed head and shoulders engraved portrait of Governor Alexander Randall. The words "Hon. Alexr. W. Randall" are typed under the...
Photograph

Newton Minow and Leo Solomon

Date: 11 1962
Description: Newton Minow and Leo Solomon shake hands in front of a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plaque. Minow appears to be receiving an award.
Print

Governor Cadwallader Colden Washburn

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Description: Quarter-length vignetted portrait of Governor Cadwallader Colden Washburn. He is facing slightly towards the left.
Photograph

Winner in Health Contest

Date: 05 1928
Description: Portrait of young man, wearing a suit and tie, standing in front of a mirror on the wall looking at his reflection.
Photograph

Allcott Family

Date: 1852
Description: Whole plate daguerreotype of the Allcott family. The parents, Sidney S. and his wife Julia, are seated. Sidney faces partially left, Julia forward. Their t...
Photograph

Unidentified Couple

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Description: Portrait of a woman and a man standing and posing together. They are surrounded by ferns, flowers, and candles. The woman is wearing a dress, presumably a ...
Manuscript

Page 13 from "A Few Glimpses of Stanley McCormick School"

Date: 02 08 1921
Description: Page from booklet with a photograph at top with caption that reads: "The girls class in wood working." Caption for photograph at bottom reads: "A boy's cla...

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