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Women in Motorboat

Date: 1941
Description: Two bathing suit-clad women demonstrating their Evinrude motorboat on a Wisconsin lake.
Photograph

Pressing Curd

Date: 1941
Description: Two men pressing the curd into a form at the Swiss Cheese Factory.
Photograph

Fred Bear and Deer

Date: 1941
Description: Bow-hunter Fred Bear poses with his bow and a deer carcass.
Photograph

Two Women in Swiss Costume

Date: 1941
Description: Two women in Swiss costume, possibly for the Wilhelm Tell Festival.
Photograph

Quinney Family

Date: 1941
Description: Bridget, Floyd, Katherine (Kate), Earl (Richard) and Ralph Quinney with visiting friends in front of their family's farmhouse.
Photograph

Wisconsin Senate

Date: 1941
Description: Composite photograph of the Wisconsin Senate of 1941.
Photograph

Lora Lee

Date: 1941
Description: Portrait of Lora Lee holding a cane and wearing a top hat, dancing costume and ballet shoes. It is inscribed "To Marian, who is my pal at Normal School & c...
Photograph

"Citizen Kane" Production Still

Date: 1941
Description: Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel...
Photograph

Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan in "Kings Row"

Date: 1941
Description: Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan in a scene from the Warner Brothers' film "Kings Row."
Print

Here I Come!

Date: 1941
Description: Holiday card of a puppy wearing a sweater and scarf, rolling down a snow-covered hill inside of a giant snowball. In the background is the text of part of ...
Print

Twas the Night Before Christmas

Date: 1941
Description: Holiday card with a winter nighttime landscape. At the bottom half of the card is a snow-covered house with two pine trees. The roof of a second house is i...
Print

Greetings

Date: 1941
Description: Holiday card with man sitting in an easy chair in front of a fireplace. He is smoking a pipe and reading a book. There is a model sailing ship on the mantl...
Photograph

Houdini Award

Date: 1941
Description: Ben Bergor, a Madison magician, receiving the Houdini Award from the widow of Harry Houdini. Behind him is the trunk from which Bergor had escaped, and fou...
Photograph

Cast of a Play

Date: 1941
Description: Female cast members of the play “How the Story Grew” performed during the Milwaukee Turners Winterfest.
Poster

Elect! Loomis

Date: 1941
Description: Campaign poster in red, white and blue that reads: "Wisconsin needs a Governor. Elect! Loomis." Includes a head and shoulders portrait of Orland Steen Loom...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Afghan for Red Cross

Date: 1941
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with women from the Good Times Club holding up an afghan they made for the Red Cross. A group of women, ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Character Studies

Date: 1941
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two views each of four women, each posing in a chair, casting a shadow on the wall behind her.
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Easter Egg Hunt

Date: 1941
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with children crossing the street in front of the settlement house, gathering Easter eggs in the park, po...
Photograph

American Legion Convention Parade

Date: 1941
Description: Slightly elevated view of celebrants at an American Legion convention parade riding on a float made to represent Wisconsin fishing.
Photograph

Civilian Conservation Corps Truck

Date: 1941
Description: A man in a uniform stands beside a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) truck. The photograph is annotated as: "The Gravy Boat." There is a building in the ba...

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