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Grignon Bedroom

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Description: View of a bedroom in the restored Charles A. Grignon House in Kaukauna. The bed has a tall Victorian headboard and is covered with a quilt. A toddler is po...
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Working Conditions on Railroad Car Ferries

Date: 09 10 1946
Description: Worker's bunks on a railroad car ferry. The spare room has a calendar, light, radiator, table, locking closet and two bunks. Workers' clothes hand on the w...
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Working Conditions on Railroad Car Ferries

Date: 09 10 1946
Description: Worker reads union newspaper while sitting on a bunk and smoking a cigar. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries....
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Student Room at Hillside Home School

Date: 1906
Description: Interior of Cecil W. Smith's room at Hillside home school showing the bedroom area.
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Flight Nurse with Her Parents

Date: 1943
Description: Flight nurse, Gwen Jensen, visiting with her parents as she prepares to leave U.S. soil. Jensen is kneeling on the floor as her parents are sitting on a be...
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Easter Seals Beneficiaries

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Elsie Smavy (right), bedridden in her seventh year of polio and with limited movement in her lower arms, creates embroidery. Her children, Molly, 7, and Ni...
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Shipmate Off-Duty

Date: 06 1942
Description: Off- duty shipmate on United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta. The man is wearing a first mate hat and a white t-shirt. Behind him is a sink with a ...
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Crewman in Bunk

Date: 06 1942
Description: A member of the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta relaxing in his bunk while reading a book in Spanish and smoking a cigarette. The man is on ...
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Bedroom in the Home of John Johnston

Date: 1900
Description: Bedroom in the home of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker, located at 645 Franklin Place, also known as "The Lion House." The ho...
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Commandos L Radio Testing

Date: 1963
Description: A member of the anti-Castro group Commandos L sitting on a bed testing a new radio transmitter-receiver.
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Commandos L Radio Testing

Date: 1963
Description: Member of the anti-Castro group Commandos L sitting on a bed testing a new radio transmitter-receiver.
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Heat Rationing

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Description: After Pearl Harbor American diplomats and journalists were interned at the Grand Hotel in the German resort community of Bad Nauheim until their release in...
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Longfellow's Wayside Inn

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Description: Interior view of Longfellow's Wayside Inn, which opened in 1716. The bedroom features a fireplace, rocking chair, and an elaborately decorated bed.
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Longfellow's Wayside Inn

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Description: Interior view of Longfellow's Wayside Inn, which opened in 1716. The bedroom features an imposing fireplace and an intricate canopy on the bed.
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Longfellow's Wayside Inn

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Description: Interior view of Longfellow's Wayside Inn, which opened in 1716. The Thomas W. Parsons Room features a canopy bed and a fireplace.
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Longfellow's Wayside Inn

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Description: Interior view of Longfellow's Wayside Inn, which opened in 1716. The Lafayette Room features wallpaper and carved bed posts.
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Longfellow's Wayside Inn

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Description: Interior view of Longfellow's Wayside Inn, which opened in 1716. The spacious Longfellow Room features an elaborate bed and ornate floor rugs.
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Judson House

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Description: Interior of Judson House, built by Captain David Judson in 1750. The bedroom features a four-poster bed and a baby cradle.
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Martha Washinton's Bedroom

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Description: Interior view of Martha Washington's bedroom. A canopied bed stands near dressers and a mirror.
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Ernie Terhall House

Date: 08 08 1954
Description: Portrait of Sharon Terhall in her bedroom, complete with two twin beds with reading lamps on headboards, a desk, a wallpapered wall, and upholstered chairs...

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