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| Description: | The World's First Typist, Lillian Sholes, daughter of Christopher Sholes, who invented the first successful typewriter. It was during Mr. Sholes' residence... |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Engraving depicting the defeat of Black Hawk by General Henry Atkinson at the Battle of Bad Axe on August 2, 1832. The engraving depicts Federal Regulars a... |
| Date: | 06 22 1927 |
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| Description: | The interior of the first floor of Blied Office Supplies Store. Three men and a women are behind counters and a desk. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | The machine shop at the "Normal School for Negroes" or the Tuskegee Institute in action. The students are diligently working at the machinery in the shop. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Josie Jepson (or Jepsen) at the telephone switchboard on Washington Island. |
| Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of five women workers in an Oscar Mayer Company test kitchen and laboratory. A low wall is separating two women working at desks on ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Cluttered work space of the librarian responsible for the Historical Society's newspaper collection during the period when the Society occupied rooms in th... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Canal and Congress streets, with Sprague's Building on the right. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Antenna Reflector Array used on the Saturn/Apollo Mission, 1967-70. The Array was manufactured by International Harvester Company's sub... |
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| Description: | An illustration titled "The Battle of the Brule" based on an 1840's battle between the Ojibwe and Dakota Sioux over territory in the Ashland, Wisconsin are... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | An architect's rendering of the Heeb Automotive Equipment Company building, 401 West Gorham Street; Law, Law, and Potter, architects. The building was boug... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard entitled "Kickers." A boy wearing waders and holding a rifle stands with his arms ... |
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| Description: | Clock made by John Muir while a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1860, on display at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. John Muir (1838-19... |
| Date: | 03 1942 |
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| Description: | Byron Price and W. Preston Corderman seated at a table behind a microphone. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Foreground: Sasha Auerbach (brother of Esther Chulew). Back, from left: unidentified woman, Manny Chulew, Esther Chulew (sister-in-law), Baruch Chulew (bro... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Susanne Hafner Goldfarb (right), Max Hafner (left), and Martha Hafner (center) on S.S. Jerusalem en route to the United States. |
| Date: | 04 1971 |
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| Description: | From left: Louis Koplin's nephew, Lanny Lichter, son Steven, wife Lorraine, Louis Koplin; on a visit to Joe Fink, the man responsible for bringing Koplin t... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Ralph Hilgers, wearing sunglasses, is seated on his 74 Harley-Davidson twin cylinder, late 1920's model motorcycle. His motorcycle is shown with a prototyp... |
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