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Drawing

Gaddis Sketches

Date: 11 08 1906
Description: Two Civil War watercolor drawings by John Gaddis, Company E, 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, showing the regiment in bivouac, and later their headquarte...
Print

Hunting of the Grizzly Bear

Date: 1832
Description: Hunting of the grizzly bear.
Photograph

Mexican Snookum Bear (Coati)

Date: 06 03 1931
Description: Jim McWilliams, "Pianutist" vaudeville actor, and Fred Winklemann, Zoo director, with the Mexican Snookum bear (coati), at Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo).
Print

The Bear Dance

Date: 1844
Description: Indian dance, with some wearing bear masks (Plate 18).

"Next in importance to the buffalo hunts, and not less exciting and spirited in its character, is ...

Print

Attacking the Grizzly Bear

Date: 1844
Description: Indians on horseback trying to kill a bear (Plate 19).

"The preliminaries of the hunt for the Grizzly Bear having been settled in the manner described in...

Photograph

Two Men and a Bear

Date: 
Description: Two men, one watching the other feeding a black bear honey. They are standing in front of a sign that reads, "Western Honey Producers, Salix, Iowa."
Photograph

Smokey Bear and Homer C. Pickens with Airplane

Date: 1950
Description: Smokey Bear cub and his handler, Homer C. Pickens, pose by a Piper Aircraft Corporation airplane named in Smokey's honor prior to flying to Washington, D.C...
Photograph

Smokey Bear with Dr. Edwin J. Smith

Date: 1950
Description: Smokey Bear cub receives treatment from Dr. Edwin J. Smith of Santa Fe, for burns he suffered in a forest fire.
Drawing

Solomon Juneau House

Date: 1836
Description: Drawing of the Solomon Juneau house on East Michigan. There are tethered bears on either side of the front door. Two people are leaning on the fence, watch...
Photograph

Man Feeding a Bear

Date: 1948
Description: A man feeds a bear in a large cage at the Gateway Inn. A group of people are gathered at the right side of the cage.
Photograph

Men with Two Bears on Leash

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Description: View of two men with two bears on leashes standing on a lawn. The bears are wearing muzzles and the men have staves. A large house is in the background.
Print

Southern Menagerie Is Coming

Date: 1860
Description: A circus traveling on the road has three cages, the first and second are flying the Confederate flag. A stone at the side of the road says "TO BOSTON." "T...
Photograph

Lone Pine Camp

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Description: A hunter poses with a large bear hainging in a wooded area at Lone Pine Camp. His rifle leans against the bear.
Map or Atlas

Recreational Map of Glacier National Park, Montana: Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta

Date: 1930
Description: Pictorial map of Glacier National Park, Montana and Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. Illustrated by Joe Scheurle, it depicts white people, American ...
Photograph

Dairy Days Parade

Date: 1950
Description: Bernard Arms holding a firearm poses on a parade float decorated in an autumn theme, including a stuffed bear, fox, and squirrel. The parade was a part of ...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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