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Drawing of The Milwaukie Steamboat

Date: 1832
Description: An early type of sidewheel passenger and freight steamboat The Milwaukie, also known as The Milwaukee. It was used on Lake Erie and upper lak...
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First Graders

Date: 06 01 1989
Description: First graders writing and drawing while lying on the floor.
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International Harvester's Milwaukee Works

Date: 1910
Description: Birds-eye view of International Harvester's Milwaukee Works located at 1714 West Bruce Street. The factory was originally owned by the Milwaukee Harvester ...
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Manitowoc, Wis.

Date: 1870
Description: Bird's-eye view of the city of Manitowoc with a population of 5,168 inhabitants as it appears in 1870, the year the village was granted a city charter by t...
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6th Grade Art Class Listening to the Radio

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Description: A sixth grade class listening to an art lesson on the WHA-FM Wisconsin School of the Air program "Let's Draw" conducted by James Schwalbach.
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Kids Drawing

Date: 05 02 1964
Description: Sitting on the school lawn, students draw Highway 51, Marathon Mill, Rib mountain and the Wisconsin River.
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Native Americans near Keshena

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Description: Native Americans on the Menominee Reservation near Keshena, Wisconsin. A white man in the foreground appears to be drawing something out of camera range. T...
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Cheese-Mobile

Date: 1964
Description: Principals in the "world's largest cheese" promotion, study the artist's sketch of the "Cheese-Mobile" that will send the cheese to the New York World's Fa...
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Alice in Dairyland Dress Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: A sketch of the winning dress designed by Betty Lou Jahn of Milwaukee for the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948. Not only was the design worn by the first A...
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Art Class at the State School for the Deaf

Date: 1893
Description: Female students practice painting and drawing in an art class session at the State School for the Deaf as a teacher assists in the background.
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Old Mission House Buildings (Lakeland College)

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Description: View of a few buildings with a grove of trees in the yard, and a fence running across the foreground. The school buildings of the old Mission House, showin...
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Jourdain Homestead

Date: 1900
Description: Jourdain's homestead, built by Joseph Jourdain in what was then Ft. Howard, Wisconsin. Eleazer Williams is said to have married Joseph Jourdain's daughter ...
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Caroline Cauliflower

Date: 1936
Description: Page from the book "The Garden Party of Vegetable Folks" featuring Caroline Cauliflower, who will sing.
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Producing Land Cover Map

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Description: Person's hands, one with with wedding ring on left hand, using a ruler, pencil, and protractor to draw a land cover map for Wisconsin Land Economic Invento...
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Temperance Rebus

Date: 1885
Description: Rebus from the National Temperance Advocate, 1884-1886 p.207. Solution is: "What harm can there be in a glass of beer? None, my man, in one or two. 'Tis...
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Cartoon of Rejected Bill

Date: 1961
Description: A cartoon of a rejected bill being sent away by a man in a top hat, who is holding back a dog on a leash.
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Senator Horace Wilke and Four Men

Date: 06 1957
Description: Senator Horace Wilke poses with four other men, one of whom is holding a drawing of a badger/deer creature.
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Comparison of Tractor Farming and Horse Farming

Date: 1936
Description: A drawing titled: "The Life of Two Farmers" illustrating the difference in work loads between a horse farmer and a Farmall tractor farmer. According to the...
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Canton Works Illustration

Date: 1919
Description: Chart or sign illustrating the "New Plow Works of the International Harvester Co. Canton, Illinois." The middle of the poster features an article titled "H...
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Horse-Power Cartoon

Date: 1917
Description: Cartoon illustrating "the layman's idea of how horse-power is determined." The cartoon shows an automobile in a "tug-of-war" with a large number of horses.

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