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My Valentine

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Description: Valentine's Day card showing a male bird standing on a tree branch with a top hat, cane and bouquet of flowers. To the right is a female bird wearing a hat...
Photograph

Palm Tree Garden

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Description: Several flamingos stand in a pool or lake amidst a palm tree garden.
Photograph

Asa Bennett Family

Date: 1903
Description: Asa Curtis Bennett family holding cranberry rakes and other manual farm implements. The family is gathered around an owl standing on the ground in front of...
Map or Atlas

Indian Legend Map of Lake Mendota

Date: 1941
Description: Hand-drawn, watercolor and ink, map of Lake Mendota. Locations and many small figures appear around the shore with explanations referring to Indian legends...
Photograph

Churning Butter

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Description: Woman using a dasher churn to make butter. She is seated on the stoop of a house and a young girl watches behind her.
Postcard

Scene at Arcadia

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Description: A man is watching deer eating grass. There is also a turkey on the right. Caption reads: "Scene at Arcadia, Wis."
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Chas. Goehner Racine Wire Works Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Racine Wire Cloth Works (previously named Chas. Goehner's Wire Works) of Racine, Wisconsin, a manufacturer of wire cloth and wire goods, ...
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Cazenovia Post Office Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Post Office in Cazenovia, Wisconsin. On the left is an eagle resting on a pile of U.S. Mail bags. On the right is an image of a railroad ...
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Hilbert, Wisconsin, Post Office Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Post Office in Hilbert, Wisconsin, with a center image of an eagle holding a banner, the ends of which read U.S. and Mail, in its beak, und...
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Prentice Post Office Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Post Office in Prentice, Wisconsin, with a banner that reads "Post Office" in red letters, and an eagle perched on a shield with stars an...
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Tigerton Post Office Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Post Office at Tigerton, Wisconsin, with a stock Chinoiserie image of a man standing and a woman holding a fan sitting in either a boat o...
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Red Star Line Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Louis Auer & Son, Milwaukee passenger agents for the Red Star Line, with a bearded man in a cap and uniform steering a ship's wheel. The name...
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Adel Bräu, Beer Label

Date: 1934
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "The Original Adel Bräu, Brewed and Bottled by the Wausau Brewing Company." Also prin...
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Bevo, Label

Date: 1917
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. The label features an image of a crane and an eagle. Bevo was a non-alcoholic drink p...
Document

Evinrude Division Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Evinrude Division of Outboard Motors Corporation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with the corporation logo and a man racing along in a boat with...
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Elim Waukesha Mineral Spring Water

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Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. The green and white label features the words, "Wisdom Prescribes 'Elim'" around the i...
Photograph

Clara Kimball Young and her Parents

Date: 1918
Description: Silent film star Clara Kimball Young, center, with her parents Edward M. Kimball and Pauline Maddern Kimball drinking coffee or tea outdoors. They are seat...
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McGovern '72

Date: 1972
Description: Two-color silk screened political poster for George McGovern. An ecology symbol is printed in dark red, and within the symbol is the color orange. Inside t...
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Park Hotel Dinner Menu

Date: 04 06 1884
Description: Front cover and menu of the restaurant at the Park Hotel, with an etching of a building with a steeple amidst many trees set against a circular frame ornam...
Book or Pamphlet

DDT in Avian Tissues

Date: 1961
Description: Table compiling data about the amount of DDT found in dead or diseased birds of several species found in areas treated with DDT.

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