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Book or Pamphlet

La Follette on the Firing Line

Date: 04 1907
Description: Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing an audience of 12,000 in Los Angeles. The photograph is on the cover of a pamphlet entitled "La Follette On The Firi...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Assembly of 1881

Date: 1881
Description: Composite of photographic portraits of men in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Along the bottom a numbered list of names identifies each man.
Photograph

McCormick Auto-Mower at Paris Exposition

Date: 1900
Description: Man sitting in a McCormick Auto-Mower in front of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company building at the Paris Exposition in France. Several men, a woman...
Photograph

McCormick Auto-Mower in Paris

Date: 1900
Description: Man sitting in a McCormick Auto-Mower at or near the Paris Exposition in France. The Auto-Mower was an experimental gasoline-powered mowing machine. This i...
Photograph

Shooting a Refrigerator Advertisement

Date: 07 31 1950
Description: A woman wearing an apron posing with a refrigerator in a photography studio while a photographer takes a picture for advertising.
Magazine or Periodical

Frank Lloyd Wright on the Cover of "Harvester World"

Date: 08 1950
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright posing on the cover of "Harvester World" magazine. Wright is sitting at a desk at Taliesin.
Photograph

Hon. William D. Hoard

Date: 
Description: Quarter-length portrait of William Dempster Hoard. He is wearing a suit and a striped tie. Hoard's signature is reproduced below the portrait.
Photograph

Governor Patrick J. Lucey

Date: 
Description: Signed portrait of Governor Patrick J. Lucey, Wisconsin's 38th governor. He is sitting in an elaborate chair behind a desk. In the background hangs the Wis...
Photograph

George B. Goodwin

Date: 1860
Description: Quarter-length oval-framed portrait of George B. Goodwin.
Drawing

"I'm a Lifeguard for Good Meats"

Date: 
Description: Advertising design for Nepco Meats, Co. showing a man in a sailor hat and overalls floating in a life buoy. Text on the right reads: "I'm a lifeguard for g...
Photograph

Queen Maryann Kromrey

Date: 12 29 1955
Description: A woman in a formal gown is sitting and smiling, and holding a corsage. A statue of the Virgin Mary is standing on a table next to her. Caption reads: "The...
Print

Wisconsin Coat of Arms

Date: 
Description: 1881 version of the Coat of Arms of the State of Wisconsin.
Photograph

United Bavarian Society Winter Festival Concert

Date: 02 10 1957
Description: A man playing a two-necked contraguitar while another man is playing a zither. Caption reads: "A bass guitar and zither were played by Hans Glieber ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Youth Hostel Group Scrapbook Page

Date: 06 1940
Description: Second page of the log book of bike hostel trips taken by participants in the Neighborhood House summer program for girls, with images of bicyclists restin...
Manuscript

Hostel Highlights

Date: 06 1940
Description: Page of the log book of bike hostel trips taken by participants in the Neighborhood House summer program for girls, with three images from the trip and han...
Print

Samuel Adams

Date: 1774
Description: Engraved portrait of Samuel Adams, a Founding Father of the United States and 4th Governor of Massachusetts (1792-1794). Adams' portrait is framed in an ov...

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