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Pheasant Banding

Date: 03 07 1945
Description: Robert McCabe, University of Wisconsin Arboretum biologist, and Jim Hale, his assistant, study the band on one of the pheasants caught in the trap in the b...
Photograph

Elderly Man and Children

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Description: A studio portrait, in front of a painted backdrop, of an elderly man with a beard sitting and holding a stuffed bird to attract the attention of two childr...
Photograph

Henry Greencrow, William Hall and Charlie Greengress with Specimens of Taxidermy

Date: 1898
Description: Full-length studio portrait of three young Ho-Chunk men wearing suit jackets, trousers, and neckties in front of a painted backdrop. Two are wearing hats a...
Postcard

Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 1940
Description: A postcard of the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo) depicting aquatic fowl, with an inset of a sea lion on a rock. Caption reads: "At the Zoo, Madison, Wis....
Magazine or Periodical

The American Velocipede

Date: 1886
Description: Engraved image from a sketch by Theodore Davis showing four men bicycling.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Fold-Out Card — Inside

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Description: Front of foldout card for Wm. Deering & Co. harvesting machinery. This scene depicts a young girl standing on an upturned basket feeding chickens with feed...
Print

L.A. May & Co. Advertising Card

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Description: Advertising card with color illustration of a man on hands and knees in the water holding the end of a firearm which is sticking out of the water. His hat ...
Poster

McCormick-Deering No. 60 Combine

Date: 1937
Description: Advertising poster for the "Efficient, Low-Cost Harvesting," and "A One-Man Combine For Any Man's Farm." Features a color illustration of a man on a tracto...
Photograph

Good People, Bad Product

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Description: Three people behind a fenced gate with two signs. One reads: "U.S. Air Force: Good People, Bad Product," and the other sign, on the right, has a peace dove...
Photograph

Military Homing Pigeons

Date: 02 18 1919
Description: Outdoor photograph of a man's arm and hand holding a military homing pigeon. A sign on the cage in the background reads: "Military Homing Pigeons. These ar...
Drawing

Farm Scene

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Description: Pen and ink drawing farm scene of a man digging in a small, fenced-in plot of bare earth land. The scene includes two cows, two birds, a haystack, windmill...
Photograph

Hunting on a Shooting Preserve

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Description: Two men holding rifles with two black labs in a field. The man on the right is kneeling in the snow and holding a pheasant which one of the dogs is carryin...
Photograph

Netting Pheasants

Date: 04 1946
Description: A man, probably a game warden, wearing a necktie and woolen jacket is capturing pheasants in a net. There is a chicken wire fence behind the birds. Beyond ...
Photograph

Aviary

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Description: Children and adults are observing the various birds, including flamingos, in the aviary at the Milwaukee County Zoo.
Photograph

Our Naval Infantry at the Antwerp Zoo

Date: 1914
Description: German forces occupied Antwerp on October 10th, 1914 after a two week siege.
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...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Commencement of Spring Work

Date: 01 1884
Description: Illustration of a man attaching a plow to a horse team. A boy is adjusting the bridle for one of the horses, and a dog sitting in the foreground is looking...

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