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Governor's Mansion — Bathroom

Date: 1930
Description: The bathroom in the former Wisconsin Governor's Mansion on Gilman Street in Madison. This was the only bathroom at the residence where many official state ...
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Staircase at 675 Rush Street

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Description: Entrance hall and main staircase of 675 Rush Street [?].
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Office Farmers Exchange Employees

Date: 06 10 1924
Description: P.M. Phillips, manager of the Office Farmers Exchange, sits behind a desk, with a woman typing on one side and a seated man on the other. A McCormick-Deeri...
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Thelma Mothershed Reading a Book

Date: 1957
Description: Thelma Mothershed, one of the Little Rock Nine, reading a book.
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Milwaukee Public Library

Date: 1904
Description: Interior of library with large open reading area and long tables and Windsor style chairs, a two-story high ceiling, and a balcony around the second level....
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Aircraft Torpedo Manufacture

Date: 01 13 1943
Description: Factory workers inspecting aircraft torpedo parts at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "Women are employed by the company to insp...
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Landaal Brothers Office

Date: 07 16 1937
Description: George J. Landaal sits at a large wooden desk and examines a piece of paper taken from a box in the Landaal Brothers office while Alfred Faller looks on ov...
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Lucius Fairchild

Date: 1855
Description: Portrait of Lucius Fairchild as a young man.
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William O. Douglas

Date: 04 12 1939
Description: Informal portrait of William O. Douglas with his feet on a desk, autographed to read "For my dear friends Bob Allen - who taught me how, where, and when to...
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Grand Army of the Republic, John H. Williams, Post No. 4

Date: 1931
Description: Portrait of the five surviving members of the Grand Army of the Republic, John H. Williams, Post No. 4. Standing from left to right around the framed chart...
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Home Canning

Date: 1915
Description: A woman wearing a dress and bonnet is using a wire potato masher to remove a jar of peaches from a vat of boiling water. Several jars of canned goods are s...
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Dave & Pauline Coleman

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Description: Magicians Dave (left) and Pauline Coleman performing their famous "Hindu Torture Board" trick using an anvil on a board full of nails positioned on the abd...
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Kitchen Implements

Date: 1917
Description: A display of metal kitchen utensils including cookie cutters, cake pans and molds.
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Mr. Lambrigger's Chimpanzee

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Description: Chimpanzee dressed as a cowboy in hat, overalls, and bandanna, seated in a chair and smoking a cigarette. The animal also wears a gun in a holster, shoes, ...
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Portrait of an Unknown Woman

Date: 1897
Description: Full-length indoor portrait of an unknown woman. She is wearing a long dress with puffy sleeves, and underneath a white blouse with lace collar and cuffs. ...

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