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Drawing

Dash Coil with Switch

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Description: Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo...
Drawing

Rhumkorff Coils

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Description: Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo...
Photograph

Camp of the 2nd Wisconsin

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Description: A group of people at the headquarters tent of the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry. Seated (left to right) are officers Lucius Fairchild, Colonel Edwin O'Connor, an...
Photograph

East Side of Main Street

Date: 1860
Description: Elevated view of east side of Main Street, with Langlois & Robilliard visible at 137 Main Street.
Photograph

Khomeini Drive 55 Billboard

Date: 1979
Description: Billboard urging Wisconsin motorists to obey the 55 miles per hour speed limit that is illustrated with a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini, the spiritual lea...
Photograph

Wausaukee Free Library

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Description: Exterior view of the Free Library at Wausaukee located above a restaurant.
Photograph

Washburn Public School

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Description: Exterior view of the Public School.
Photograph

Aune & Overby's Opera House Block

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Description: Exterior view of Aune & Overby's Opera House. (Incorrectly identified on the front of the photograph as Anne & Overly's Opera House.)
Photograph

W.H. Lemke General Store

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Description: Exterior view of W.H. Lemke's store, which features dry goods, carpet, and more.
Photograph

Walter S. Rait's General Merchandise

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Description: Exterior view of Walter S. Rait's Merchandise.
Photograph

Elevator and Coal Docks

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Description: Elevator and coal docks, including ships.
Photograph

East Bayfield Street

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Description: East Bayfield Street including a wagon on the street and a livery.
Photograph

West Bayfield Street

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Description: West Bayfield Street.
Photograph

Washburn Lumber Mills

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Description: Lumber mills.
Photograph

Man Holding Slipover Bowling Shoe

Date: 04 10 1945
Description: A man, possibly inventor Leo Kay, holding a slipover bowling shoe, which attaches to a regular street shoe.
Photograph

Farmall H Tractor with Steel Wheels

Date: 1939
Description: Studio shot of a Farmall H tractor with steel wheels and H Spade, showing seat decal and IHC's "Safety First" below the seat. The tractor may be an experim...
Magazine or Periodical

The American Velocipede

Date: 1886
Description: Engraved image from a sketch by Theodore Davis showing four men bicycling.
Photograph

Florence Vidor and Lloyd Hughes in a Scene Still

Date: 1921
Description: Nellie Steel, a cabaret dancer played by Florence Vidor, and Dick Revel, the young man who loves her (Lloyd Hughes), are having a crucial conversation in t...
Photograph

Studio Group Portrait of Unidentified European American Men

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Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of six men posing sitting and standing. They are all wearing suit coats and hats.
Document

King Ghazi Cinema Takings Summary Sheet for "Spellbound"

Date: 09 03 1949
Description: Takings summary sheet of the box office receipts for the film "Spellbound" at the King Ghazi Cinema in Baghdad, Iraq on September 3, 1949.

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