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Manuscript

The Short Cut Route

Date: 1920
Description: Cover of an advertisement and timetable for the Peninsula & Northern Navigation Co. of Milwaukee. The S.S. United States and the S.S. Arizona...
Poster

Un dernier effort et on l'aura

Date: 1917
Description: Poster depicting American soldiers climbing up a rock. The rock is topped by an Imperial eagle and the symbol of the iron cross. The bird's claws and the c...
Poster

Exposition des dons Americains

Date: 1916
Description: Poster with text and a border of laurels or garland. On one side of the border is a structure with a bird above it (dove?). The other side features a chain...
Poster

President Wilson's Great Message

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of President Wilson, with his address to Congress framed by an eagle, and red, white, and blue bunting. Text reads, in part: ...
Photograph

After the Hunt

Date: 1935
Description: Oswald Neesvig is posing in a snowy landscape with dozens of dead crows attached to his clothing and at his feet. Neesvig was the founder and president of ...
Painting

Student's Earth Day Art

Date: 1970
Description: Young student's crayon and watercolor art inspired by Earth Day, consisting of a sun with a smiling face surrounded by a field of blue filled with birds an...
Painting

Student's Earth Day Art

Date: 1970
Description: Young student's crayon and watercolor art inspired by Earth Day, consisting of Earth seen from space overlapping the Moon. A fish, a bird, and a sun decora...
Photograph

C.C. Lincoln

Date: 1903
Description: Ceylon Childs Lincoln standing near a bench in the Wisconsin Historical Society museum. He was the museum attendant and janitor. There are sculptures and p...
Photograph

Stone Fireplace

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Description: Stone fireplace in lodge, with two rocking chairs in front of it. A stuffed owl is on the mantle.
Map or Atlas

Map to Little Bohemia

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Description: Map showing the location of the Little Bohemia lodge and restaurant, with major routes from Chicago and eastern and central Wisconsin.
Photograph

Sitting on the Beach with a Bird

Date: 1931
Description: Peter DeWitt and a friend or cousin are sitting on the sand beach near logs. A bird is perched nearby on a wooden pier.
Postcard

Merry Christmas and Bright New Year

Date: 12 31 1908
Description: Christmas and New Years postcard with a Bluebird and holly on a metallic gold background. The text: "To Wish you a merry Christmas and a bright New Year" i...
Postcard

Greetings from Prairie Du Sac

Date: 1910
Description: Handwriting on front reads: "Greetings from Prairie Du Sac, Wis." and "Merry Christmas". A scene of a man on the shoreline of a river with a small boat. Sw...
Postcard

Pine River

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Pine River." A river scene with a boat tied up to a birch tree on the left. Trees are on the shoreline. There are either two birds st...
Postcard

Rock Ledge

Date: 1951
Description: Text on reverse reads: "'Rock Ledge' Wisconsin's most picturesque gift shop located on the historical site at the Falls of the Sheboygan River, Sheboygan F...
Photograph

Oscar Zerk in his Office

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Description: Oscar Zerk is sitting at his desk in his office holding a Zerk grease gun in his hand. There is a taxidermied owl on the cabinet on the right, and a large ...
Photograph

Oscar Zerk at a Desk

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Description: Oscar Zerk is sitting at a desk holding a paper in his hand. The room is decorated with two taxidermied birds, and a large picture window is behind the des...
Photograph

Dolores del Rio in "Ramona"

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Description: Dolores del Rio appears as the title character in the 1928 film "Ramona". She wears a dress, a crucifix around her neck, and long braids while sitting nex...

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