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Photograph

Wilbur J. Cohen Standing at a Lectern

Date: 
Description: Wilbur Cohen, emphasizing a point, clenches his fists at a lectern. This is probably during a talk for Save Our Security, a non-profit coalition of nationa...
Print

"The Columbine" Union Pacific Dinner Menu Exterior

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior of the dinner menu for The Columbine, a Union Pacific passenger train that traveled between Chicago and Denver, with columbine flowers and the sea...
Print

"The Columbine" Union Pacific Dinner Menu Interior

Date: 1930
Description: Interior of the dinner menu for The Columbine, a Union Pacific passenger train that traveled between Chicago and Denver, with columbine flower borders and ...
Book or Pamphlet

Eclipse Wind Engine Co. Catalog

Date: 1880
Description: Page from Eclipse Wind Engine Co. [Beloit, Wisconsin] catalog featuring an illustration of an Eclipse Wind Engine installed in a barn. A cut-away view show...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1902
Description: Front cover of catalog for grain and grass cutting machinery, featuring an art deco style frame with a landscape scene of a wheat field with trees, a windm...
Photograph

Anita McCormick in Bridesmaid Dress

Date: 1888
Description: Group portrait of four women in front of a painted backdrop. Original caption reads: "Elizabeth King (left), possibly Katherine Isham,---, and Anita McC [M...
Photograph

Quivey's Grove Oak

Date: 1982
Description: A bare, large bur oak appears almost as a silhouette against the sky and snow-covered ground. It is standing on the grounds of Quivey's Grove Restaurant at...
Photograph

Signal Oak

Date: 1982
Description: A tall bur oak at the corner of Ransom and West Thorne Streets dwarfs adjacent houses and their garages. The tree is bare and there is snow on the ground. ...
Photograph

White Oak

Date: 1982
Description: A mature white oak with multiple large branches standing in the backyard of the Robert Carberry house on Millston Avenue. The rear of the house and a bird ...
Photograph

Willow Drive

Date: 1982
Description: Large specimens of Salix alba line Willow Drive on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Some of the trees date from the 1890s, and many have ...
Photograph

The Goff Larch

Date: 1982
Description: This European Larch with two trunks was planted on the lawn of the Agricultural Dean's House on Babcock Drive on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus...
Photograph

Autumn Purple White Ash

Date: 1980
Description: A mature white ash (Fraxinus americana) standing on a snow covered slope on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Van Hise hall is on the left...
Historical Object

"The Great Society" Comic Book

Date: 1966
Description: Cover of a comic book about Lyndon B. Johnson as a superhero named "Super LBJ." The cover features a full-color illustration of a man wearing a red and whi...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota Border

Date: 
Description: A map captioned: "Diagram of the Region Destitute of Drift and Boulders in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota."
Photograph

Patricia Williams

Date: 05 16 1958
Description: A young woman is smiling and holding up a certificate. Caption reads: "The top salesmen in the Junior Achievement sales contest showed her certificate prou...
Photograph

White Pine

Date: 1940
Description: Lear Shewano is dwarfed by a grove of huge virgin white pine trees in the Menominee Indian Reservation. He is wearing a white hat and plaid shirt.
Photograph

Banner on South Boston Home

Date: 1975
Description: Hand-drawn banner hanging from the bay window of a home. The banner features a cartoon, rear view, of a boy holding an American flag, with his arm around a...
Photograph

Ku Klux Klan Sign

Date: 1975
Description: A man, sitting on porch steps, is holding up a sign that reads: "K.K.K. + S.B + H.P." (Ku Klux Klan plus South Boston plus Hyde Park.) Standing on the porc...
Photograph

Bronwyn Jones

Date: 09 11 1963
Description: A woman is smiling while posing with her right leg lifted. She is wearing a dress and standing in front of a fireplace and wood-paneled wall. Caption reads...
Photograph

Verso of Dr. Jesse Thomas Photograph

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Description: The verso of a photograph of an oil painting of Dr. Jesse Thomas, including this description: "Dr. Jesse Thomas, born in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio in 1811. Came t...

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