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Loggers in Bateaux

Date: 1900
Description: Log driving crew on river in five bateaux. In the background on the left is a bridge.
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Ganna Walska in Operatic Costume with Lyre

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Description: Full-length portrait of Polish opera singer Ganna Walska adorned in operatic costume holding a lyre. Ms. Walska was the second wife of Harold Fowler McCorm...
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Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a Milwaukee grain binder and a young...
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Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway

Date: 07 20 1886
Description: Group of people posing in the rail yard of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Omaha Railway.
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International 724 Tractor

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Description: Man driving a German International 724 tractor through a field of tulips in Holland(?).
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Portrait of Benjamin Butts

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Description: Studio portrait of Benjamin Butts wearing bow tie and suit.
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Windrow-Harvester

Date: 1912
Description: Farmer operating the 12-foot ground drive windrow-harvester.
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International G/61 Electric Company Truck

Date: 04 14 1923
Description: An employee operates an International Model G or 61 truck with Mead-Morrison under-slung winch and derrier equipment for the Lowell Electric Lighting Compa...
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McCarthy and Eisenhower

Date: 03 03 1954
Description: During the first months of his administration, President Dwight Eisenhower handled Joseph R. McCarthy by publicly ignoring him. However, after the abuse t...
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Special Machine Tool Shop

Date: 06 02 1942
Description: Original caption reads: "Walter R. Hallberg, superintendent of Harvester's special machine tool shop, inspects a rebuilt milling machine placed in operatin...
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Publicity Still of Valeska Suratt for The Red Rose

Date: 1911
Description: Publicity still of Valeska Suratt for the 1911 Broadway production The Red Rose in which Suratt played Lola, a Parisian artist's model who falls in ...
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Mr. & Mrs. Houdini

Date: 1926
Description: Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis.
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Nell Craig in "The Queen of Sheba"

Date: 1921
Description: Nell Craig playing Princess Vashti in the 1921 Fox production "The Queen of Sheba."
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Worker at Milwaukee Public Library

Date: 1958
Description: Construction worker at a conference on economic problems at the Milwaukee Public Library. The subject is Albert Pearson.
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Young Woman on a Corner

Date: 1916
Description: Girl standing on a small town street corner.
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Elsa Seipp Madlener

Date: 01 04 1898
Description: Waist-up standing portrait of Elsa Seipp Madlener on her wedding day. She is wearing a long-sleeved dress with a high collar, lace bodice and a lace veil w...
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Portrait of Governor Jeremiah Rusk

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Description: Quarter-length engraved vignette portrait of Wisconsin's 15th governor Jeremiah Rusk. He is wearing a suit, and has a beard and moustache. Rusk's signature...
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Portrait of Governor Walter J. Kohler Sr.

Date: 02 12 1929
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Governor Walter J. Kohler Sr.
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Portrait of Leo Lania

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Leo Lania (born Lazar Herrmann), wearing round eyeglasses. He has a cigarette in his mouth.
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Bald Cypress

Date: 1962
Description: Noted Kenosha County "citizen conservationist" and environmentalist Phil H. Sander (1906-2006) holding a tape measure around the trunk of the Rhodesdale ba...

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