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Playing Cards

Date: 05 10 1955
Description: Members of a musician's union playing cards together.
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1902
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne & Co. harvesting machines showing three old men. Two of the men appear to be listening to the third man. I...
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Badger Kennel Club Dog Show

Date: 06 19 1950
Description: Forrest Gillett, Chair of the Grounds Committee for Badger Kennel Club Dog Show, is shown with his Irish Setter, Mr. Chips of the Terrace.
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NARCE Convention

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Description: Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin (left) at a convention in Wausau sponsored by the National Association of Civil Employees. Although undated, the pho...
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Happy Birthday Medicare

Date: 07 29 1995
Description: At a celebration for the 30th anniversary of Medicare, Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey and guests blow out the candles on a cake.
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Running for Re-election

Date: 1970
Description: Running hard for re-election after having served less than a full term, Congressman David R. Obey greets card-playing seniors.
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John Carr

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of John Carr wearing a dark suit with a white shirt and dark necktie. A pair of eyeglasses are resting on the ...
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Health Care Concerns

Date: 1991
Description: Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin (seated, second from the right) listens while Virginia McGinley testifies at a public forum on health care. This was...
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Gillett Reunion at Vilas Park

Date: 06 24 1920
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the extended Gillett family at a reunion.
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Father #31;— Mother Golden Wedding

Date: 06 1916
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Conrad and Mary Schmitt's (Emma Gillett's parents) Golden Wedding Anniversary.
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Conrad Schmitt Family

Date: 1916
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Conrad Schmitt family. Sherwin and Emma (nee Schmitt) Gillett are standing on the far left. Sherwin is holding infant son, Lo...
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Sherwin and Emma Gillett — 60th Wedding Anniversary

Date: 1966
Description: Sherwin and Emma Gillett posing for their 60th Wedding Anniversary with their 1906 portraits in a frame behind them.
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Sherwin and Emma Gillett's 50th Wedding Anniversary

Date: 1956
Description: Guests gathered for Sherwin and Emma Gillett's 50 Wedding Anniversary banquet.
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Portrait of John Bissett

Date: 1957
Description: Quarter-length portrait of a middle-aged man with a flower in his lapel. The subject is John Bissett, 900 Emerson Avenue, South Milwaukee.
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Joseph Olver and Family

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Description: Outdoor family portrait of three young European American men posed standing behind a middle-aged European American man and woman posed sitting. The younger...
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Seated Senators

Date: 1902
Description: Group of United States Senators seated on the porch of a country estate house. Left to right: Senator Platt, Senator John Coit Spooner of Wisconsin (U.S. S...
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Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Jones

Date: 1932
Description: Informal double portrait of Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Jones, 81 and 80, respectively at the time of their 60th wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Jones were both bo...
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Class of 1884

Date: 06 16 1934
Description: Members of the University of Wisconsin Class of 1884 at their 50th reunion.
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Mr. and Mrs. Sawles

Date: 1939
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Sawles stand with floral tributes at their golden wedding anniversary.
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Studio Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of unidentified family. Two women are posing sitting on the left and right, and between them is a girl stand...

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