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Trimpey House

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior of the residence of Edwin B. and Alice Kent Trimpey, showing front entrance with columns, with a porch and plants above. A cat looks out of the wi...
Photograph

Mabel Taliaferro, an American Staffordshire Bull Terrier Puppy, and a Cat

Date: 1917
Description: Taliaferro sits in an overstuffed chair and holds her pets still for the photographer. Original caption: "Mabel Taliaferro, Metro Star, in the library ...
Photograph

Clara Kimball Young Holding a Black Cat

Date: 1915
Description: Heavily retouched seated portrait of the silent film star Clara Kimball Young with a black cat on her lap. Original caption: "Clara Kimball Young who w...
Photograph

Radio and Cat

Date: 1940
Description: Cat standing on top of a well-used radio.
Photograph

Family in Living Room

Date: 1910
Description: View of a family relaxing in the living room of their home. Features men, women, and children sitting around a table. Caption reads: "A Happy Home in Orogr...
Photograph

Emma Ketel Sewing

Date: 1900
Description: Emma Ketel sits on a sofa sewing with a cat curled up next to her.
Print

Merry Christmas From All of Us

Date: 1936
Description: Holiday card for the Bancroft Dairy Company in Madison, Wisconsin. The card is folded so that as you open each panel, you see a new scene. Many different e...
Print

Neverland, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Date: 1965
Description: Holiday card with a drawing of a vacation home on the front, and a picture of the family in front of their Volkswagen bus on the inside. The family has a C...
Photograph

Nellie Arms and Her Cat

Date: 10 24 1954
Description: Nellie Arms, aunt of Lewis Arms, holds a cat outdoors at the farm she shared with her husband Bernard.
Print

I Have Nine Lives of Love for You, My Valentine

Date: 1925
Description: Valentine's Day card of a black cartoon cat made of five pieces. It has a metal paper fastener in the center that allows movement of the head, legs and tai...
Print

Goff's Restaurant Menu

Date: 01 16 1958
Description: Dinner and children's menu from Goff's Restaurant, with two illustrations of a woman in an apron filling a coffee cup: in the one accompanying 1893, when t...
Photograph

Kissinger Family Greetings

Date: 10 1968
Description: Judy and Clark Kissinger, along with their daughters Jennifer and Jessica, send greetings to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the form of a popular finger gest...
Photograph

Kitten

Date: 12 1905
Description: A kitten enjoying the sunlight while sitting on a piece of fabric on a table near a window. There is a pincushion on the table, a lace curtain in the windo...
Historical Object

The Fargo Children at Play

Date: 1908
Description: Five photographs mounted on an album page showing the Fargo children at play. At top left, in a posed studio portrait, Dorothy Fargo, sitting at left, "tea...
Photograph

Presidential Political Campaign Buttons

Date: 1996
Description: Framed assortment of political campaign buttons for Bill Clinton and running mate Al Gore, and Bob Dole and Jack Kemp. One button favors Clinton's cat Sock...
Photograph

Mary Griggs Standing Next to her Pony

Date: 1927
Description: Mary Livingston Burke is sitting on Mary's pony as daughter Mary and two unidentified women are standing alongside. Daughter Mary is wearing a wool coat wi...
Postcard

Kelnhofer's General Store

Date: 09 09 1910
Description: The text on front reads: "Int. of Geo. J. Kelnhofer's General Store. Rib Lake, Wis." A man is standing in the central aisle, and a girl, holding a cat, is ...
Postcard

With Best Christmas Wishes

Date: 12 25 1908
Description: Christmas postcard, with two cats wearing bows around their necks, surrounded by holly. Their paws are on a scroll that reads: "With Best Christmas Wishes....
Book or Pamphlet

Four Panel Pamphlet with Photographs

Date: 1960
Description: A two-sided four panel folded pamphlet. The photographs are, from left to right: a young girl standing with her arms crossed and looking directly at the ca...

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