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Delivering "Fresh Beef Guts" with International Truck

Date: 1920
Description: Driver delivering "Fresh Beef Guts and Provisions" in an International Model H 1 1/2 ton truck. The truck was owned by A. Levine. The Model H was produced ...
Document

Looking Back in Ripon

Date: 03 24 1983
Description: Newspaper clipping showing the demolishing of the Long House. The man on the right is believed to be M.V. Adkins, son of Chester Adkins, the last survivor ...
Photograph

Winners of Golf Tournament

Date: 07 21 1948
Description: Top prize winners in the annual Wisconsin Medical Society golf tournament at Maple Bluff Country Club. Left to right: Dr. Paul Purtell, Milwaukee; Dr. Har...
Photograph

Post Office

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Description: A stagecoach full of people is outside the post office on snow-covered ground, waiting to leave town. Text on image reads: "Stage, Leaving Arbor Vitae, Wis...
Postcard

George Staty, Mary Staty Marx & Margaret Staty

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio group portrait of (left to right) George Staty, Mary Staty Marx and Margaret Staty. They are standing in front of a paint...
Photograph

Migrant Mother Variation

Date: 1936
Description: Florence Thompson with several of her children in a tent shelter as part of the "Migrant Mother" series.
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Police Surveillence of Farm Workers

Date: 1961
Description: Four of the deputy sheriffs that were part of the growers strike-breaking techniques during the important Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike.
Photograph

Lt. Ronald Reagan and Corp. Craig Stevens in "This is the Army"

Date: 1943
Description: Lt. Ronald Reagan and Corp. Craig Stevens on the set of the Warner Brothers' film "This is the Army."
Photograph

Ronald Reagan in "This is the Army"

Date: 1943
Description: Ronald Reagan on the set of the Warner Bros. film "This is the Army."
Photograph

Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman Bicycling

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Description: Magazine clipping of Ronald Reagan and first wife Jane Wyman bicycling together.
Print

William Wilson, Medical Electrician Ad

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Description: Advertisement for William Wilson, Medical Electrician that features a Greek godlike figure wearing various electrical medical garments and holding a placar...
Photograph

David R. Obey

Date: 1964
Description: Official portrait of David R. Obey from the 1964 Wisconsin Blue Book.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 543-553

Date: 
Description: The first time out of doors in shirtsleeves is a moment of kindlier feeling,
of stern and lonely reservations gladly set aside.

With the passing ...
Print

Apostle Islands Visit

Date: 07 2001
Description: David Obey poses with Park Ranger Geoffrey Smith on the left and Martin Hanson on the right. They are standing on the beach with water and land in the back...
Photograph

VF-192 Tandem Dump Truck

Date: 1956
Description: International VF-192 tandem dump truck with load of coal. Powered by V8-478 CID gas engine. Painted on the driver's side door: "Black Nugget Coal Mining Co...
Photograph

Richard Esselstyn Fowler

Date: 
Description: Quarter-length vignetted studio portrait of Richard Esselstyn Fowler.
Magazine or Periodical

Edison's Electric Generator in Scientific American

Date: 10 18 1879
Description: Depiction of Edison's Electric Generator in the weekly journal of practical information, art, science, chemistry and manufactures. It is an electrical gene...
Photograph

Burntside Lake Campsite

Date: 1911
Description: The Gang at their camp in a shady spot by Burntside Lake. The canoes are in the water on the left.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Violence Erupts at Kahane Lecture

Date: 1990
Description: An article in The Badger Herald written by Risa Berg about a lecture by Rabbi Meir Kahane which was disrupted by protesters. It includes an image of...

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