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I Cannot Bear to Lose You

Date: 1903
Description: Valentine's Day card with a bear standing in the center. He has his paws folded over his tummy. On his right is a jar of honey and on his left is a honeyco...
Photograph

Walter Lofblad and His Carvings

Date: 08 12 1960
Description: Walter Lofblad, a Cumberland farmer, with miniature Milwaukee Braves figures he carved from basswood. The carved set includes the entire starting lineup, m...
Postcard

Bear Cubs at the Corner Bar

Date: 07 21
Description: Photographic postcard of two bear cubs at the Corner Bar. They are hanging out of a cardboard Blatz Beer box. The caption reads: "A Shot & a Beer & a Gin f...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Milk Coolers Brochure

Date: 1938
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering Milk Coolers. Features a color illustration of a polar bear on an iceberg and a photo of a man putti...
Print

"Three Bears for Work!" Sales Flyer

Date: 1939
Description: Sales flyer for International Harvester's Farmall tractor line, showing a photograph of three bears and the text: "Three Bears for Work!" Also includes the...
Book or Pamphlet

International Refrigeration Brochure

Date: 1941
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for International refrigeration, including "walk-in" and "reach-in" milk and beverage coolers. The cover features an illus...
Photograph

Young Girl with Teddy Bear

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Description: A young girl stands in a yard near the corner of a house with her Teddy Bear in one arm. She is shading her eyes from the sun and is looking down. She is w...
Drawing

Polar Frozen Custard Label

Date: 07 02 1935
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Features a polar bear licking a large ice cream cone. There are floating blocks of ic...
Photograph

Film Still of "The Clodhopper"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still exterior of a group of people at a picnic. A man is holding a bear with a chain in the center of the image. Booths can be seen in background, on...
Photograph

Title I PreSchoolers

Date: 1978
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey with pre-schoolers and their teacher at Ellis School, a program supported in part by Title I federal funding. Throughou...
Photograph

Public Museum #960

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Description: Stereograph view of stuffed kangaroo, bear, fox, giraffe, llama, and ram behind a glass enclosure at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Text at right: "Milwaukee...
Map or Atlas

Prairie Potawatomi Legends of the Mukwonago Lakes

Date: 11 14 1942
Description: This pictorial map illustrates Potawatomi Indian legends from the region of Lower Phantom Lake, labeled Howitt Lake on the map, Phantom Lake, and Mukwonag...
Photograph

Beehives Destroyed by Bear

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Description: View of an apiary that has been destroyed by a bear. Trees and stumps in background. Writing on back reads: "What a bear did to Outcelt's yard."
Postcard

A Complete Deer Season, Cornucopia, Wis.

Date: 1950
Description: Photographic postcard of a man holding a rifle, squatting on ground on the right, with his trophies: Carcasses of a deer, a bear and a wolf hanging from pi...
Photograph

Mental Patients Visit the Zoo

Date: 10 20 1961
Description: Several men and women patients from Mendota State Hospital are watching the bears at the Vilas Park Zoo. A volunteer took them for the outing in her person...
Photograph

Chippewa Woman Cooking Bear Meat

Date: 1907
Description: Chippewa woman standing outdoors stirring one of three pots suspended over an open fire.
Book or Pamphlet

Scrapbook Cover

Date: 1950
Description: Two pandas "scrap" on the embossed leather cover of a scrapbook bearing the title "Snaps and Scraps." Metallic gold highlights the embossed areas. The scra...
Photograph

Vilas Zoo Animals

Date: 08 07 1965
Description: A Grizzly bear is sticking its nose out between the steel bars of a cage at Vilas Park Zoo.
Photograph

Caveman Sid

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Description: View of Sid, with a cigar in his mouth and holding a club, sitting on an animal-skin rug outdoors in what may be a quarry. He is wearing a rag mop on his h...
Map or Atlas

Trails to Adventure, Gardner Dam Camp - White Lake, Wisconsin : 1,600 Woodland Acres Under Forest Management and Dedicated to the Outdoor Program of the Valley Council, Boy Scouts of America

Date: 1966
Description: This map shows trails, roads, creeks, alleged location of George Gardner's trading post, Boulder and Mud Lakes, and a portion of the Wolf River. The map al...

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