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Drawing

Barman — Pete

Date: 1932
Description: Pete bartending at Club Simplon.
Book or Pamphlet

William Deering and Company Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering and Company farm machinery. Features an illustration of a young woman in a wheat field surrounded by bi...
Photograph

Women's Relief Corps Parading down Street

Date: 1902
Description: Women's Relief Corps with umbrellas parading down the street. Stuffed eagle parading as "Old Abe." Directly behind the two flags are, from left to right: ...
Photograph

Fourth of July Crowd at Humboldt Park

Date: 07 04 1917
Description: Children canoeing in the pond with swans, while other children are watching. There are adults and children in the background near a building.
Manuscript

Commemorative Roster of Company B, 35th Wisconsin Infantry

Date: 
Description: A commemorative roster of Company B of the 35th Wisconsin Infantry, including imagery, including a soldier with women and children, an eagle and the Americ...
Photograph

Dove Flight Opens Christmas Seal Sale

Date: 11 20 1949
Description: Delores Wilkinson, member of the Madison Come-Back Club, and Sylvan Lipski, Milwaukee All-City Flying Club member are shown just before they released five ...
Photograph

Tom Roddy and Others with Ho-Chunk Artifacts

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Description: Two European American men posing sitting in front of two European American women and a Ho-Chunk woman posing standing. They are all wearing Ho-Chunk regali...
Photograph

Portrait of Tom Roddy and His Wife

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Description: A European American man is posing reading on the left, and a European American woman is posing standing on the right in a room decorated with Ho-Chunk arti...
Photograph

Tom Roddy and Others Posing with Ho-Chunk Artifacts

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Description: Two European American men are posing sitting on the floor cross-legged and kneeling on the right, and two European American women and a Ho-Chunk woman posi...
Poster

The Red Cross War Fund Poster

Date: 1914
Description: "If You Can't Go Across With A Gun Come Across With Your Part Of The Red Cross War Fund." Poster depicting a man, wounded and bleeding with his arm in a sl...
Photograph

Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry

Date: 1968
Description: View of Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry, with a couple standing in the foreground. The woman is wearing a leopard print coat, and seagulls wheel in ...
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....
Postcard

Paul A. Seifert

Date: 06 1908
Description: Paul A. Seifert, and unidentified woman seated indoors. He lived in Richland Center, now known as Gotham, Wisconsin. He was a taxidermist and curio collect...
Photograph

Stained Glass Window

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Description: View of a stained glass window erected in 1920 in honor of the women of Plymouth Plantation. On the center panel, a ship is in the bay while a man and wom...
Photograph

Basswood Eagle Carving

Date: 1961
Description: Basswood carving of an eagle, inspired by "Old Abe" of the Civil War 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, in the American Club Restaurant of the Kohler Compan...
Drawing

Vacation Party on Seashore Cliff Stairwalk

Date: 1900
Description: View of a vacation party on a cliff stairway overlooking a seashore. Several men and women in formal dress walk down the stairway. Heavily retouched image.
Photograph

Sarajevo Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: A street scene with Sarajevo.
Print

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...
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...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Fun Map : Picturing the Vacation of Opportunities of this Great Outdoor State

Date: 1936
Description: This pictorial tourist map from the Wisconsin Conservation Commission depicts vacation activities and identifies tourist destinations throughout the state....

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