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Book or Pamphlet

Walter A. Wood Catalog Cover

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog cover featuring a chromolithograph illustration of flowers around a red scroll with blue ribbon, advertising the Mowing & R...
Photograph

International 824 Tractor

Date: 1971
Description: View towards a man plowing a field with an International 824 tractor in Germany. The picture commemorates the launch of the 824 tractor at Neuss Works in E...
Photograph

Registration of Enemy Aliens

Date: 05 23 1917
Description: Unnaturalized Germans registering as enemy aliens at the New York Federal Building. Registration was necessary for them to be able to travel within the va...
Photograph

Armory Tower

Date: 1955
Description: Armory tower with crenels and narrow arched windows. The building is on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and is also known as the Red Gym or Old ...
Photograph

Children and Woman with Cream Separator

Date: 10 27 1926
Description: A girl us turning the crank on a cream separator as a boy and a woman are looking on. The woman and children are standing in a kitchen, and the woman is wa...
Photograph

Rev. Wright at Emmett Till Murder Trial

Date: 09 1955
Description: Rev. Moses Wright and his son Simon outside the Sumner courthouse where two white men were on trial for the murder of 14 year-old Emmett Till (Wright's nep...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Ramon Novarro

Date: 1922
Description: Hoover Art Studio publicity photograph of Ramon Novarro, apparently used for the 1922 production Trifling Women.
Photograph

Priscilla Dean and a German Shepherd Dog

Date: 1920
Description: Original caption: "For a dog whose breed is alleged to possess great intelligence, this Belgian police dog seems rather indifferent to Priscilla Dean's 'V...
Photograph

Monument to the Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Date: 1915
Description: A monument dedicated to the 36th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Companies B, E, F, and G. These companies were part of the Army of the Potomac, who fought a...
Photograph

Henry B. Harris

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Description: Portrait of Henry Harris, seated, wearing a bow tie and suit.
Photograph

"The Incredible Shrinking Man" Publicity Still

Date: 1957
Description: Still from the 1957 Universal film "The Incredible Shrinking Man," featuring Grant Williams (as Scott Carey), a tiny man sitting on top of medicine bottles...
Photograph

Autographed Portrait of Fleet Admiral C.W. Nimitz

Date: 04 30 1945
Description: An autographed quarter-length portrait of Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz in his office at CinCPac/CinCPOA Advanced Headquarters on Guam. He is standi...
Photograph

Mrs. Joseph Smith

Date: 1908
Description: Mary E. Smith seated in a bedroom in the Belvedere Hotel (?), probably in Washington, D.C. or vicinity. Her reflection is in the mirrored door behind her. ...
Photograph

Group of Four Women

Date: 1965
Description: Group of four standing women conversing informally at a social occasion.
Book or Pamphlet

Williams Harvester Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1882
Description: Front cover featuring a rake, pitchfork, and shock of wheat advertising the catalog of harvesting machines.
Photograph

Charles D. Robinson

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Description: Oval framed head and shoulders portrait of Charles D. Robinson.
Photograph

Leo Lania with Cigarette

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Description: A casual studio portrait of Leo Lania. He is wearing black, round eyeglasses and is smoking a cigarette.
Photograph

CapitolAires

Date: 06 26 1979
Description: An outdoor performance at a stadium by the CapitolAires, an all-female drum and bugle corps. In the foreground a woman is dancing while buglers are marchin...
Photograph

Marcelaine Hobson

Date: 05 1945
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Marcelaine "Marcy" Hobson (1925-2010) looking to the right. Marcy is wearing a dark suit jacket and a white ruffled collar. Her ...

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