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| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Stereograph over rooftops towards the Ferris wheel at the Chicago World's Fair. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Stereograph through a Ferris wheel at the Chicago World's Fair. The sensation of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the Ferris wheel, the... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Van Steiner (15 years-old) of Argyle, Wisconsin, the 1957 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion, crouching next to his Wisconsin State Journal-sponsor... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Van Steiner (15 years-old) of Argyle, Wisconsin, the 1957 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion, working on the steering of his Wisconsin State Journa... |
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| Description: | A bisque doll of a woman with her face and hands painted black. She is wearing a red plaid dress with two aprons. The doll was made in Germany in 1890-1910... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Lydia Willms (b. 1896), center, with her twin sisters Emma (1893-1974) and Marge (1893-1973) holding their dolls posing standing outside a building, probab... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View looking towards shoreline of three men and one woman setting up a fire on the rocks for a picnic. There is a picnic basket on the log on the right, an... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Group of people setting up for a picnic on a beach at Apostle Island. |
| Date: | 07 04 1913 |
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| Description: | Indian "pow-wow" and lacrosse contest between various reservations. |
| Date: | 07 04 1913 |
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| Description: | Indian "pow-wow" and lacrosse contest between various reservations. |
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| Description: | Group of people at a picnic on the shoreline at Bass Island. Names written on back of print: Mrs. Abernathy, chair; Mrs. Hull; Mrs. Baker. |
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| Description: | Man standing and displaying a horse outdoors. There are other men and children behind him on the left, and on the right is another horse. Perhaps a fairgro... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Manuscript map of the Chequamegon Bay area on Lake Superior drawn by Warren W. Witmer and illustrated with sketches by Mary L. Wright Witmer in ink and wat... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | The cover of a Milwaukee Braves scorebook featuring a caricature of a Native American man. |
| Date: | 02 02 2017 |
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| Description: | Two Duncan yo-yos, side by side. One the left is the "Imperial" version and on the right is the "Butterfly" style. |
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