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Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company, manufacturers of harvesting machinery. The cover features a framed inset of a scene of...
Photograph

Group Posing on Ice Skates

Date: 1901
Description: Winter scene with four women, a man and a child, all well-dressed, posing on the ice wearing ice skates. Other skaters are behind them. Caption reads: "Syl...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Advertising Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Advertising catalog for grain cutting (harvesting) machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features an illustration of children sitting with...
Photograph

Generational Family Portrait

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Description: Five adults and one child pose outside in what appears to be a park, with two tents in the background.
Photograph

H.H. Bennett's Family Portrait

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Description: Henry Hamilton Bennett and his extended family posing outdoors with umbrellas.
Photograph

Syl and Grandma in Front Stoop

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Description: A very young Syl wearing a wide brimmed hat stands holding hands with his grandmother on a front stoop. A bicycle is leaning up against the porch to the ri...
Photograph

Storch Family Reunification

Date: 03 06 1952
Description: Peter Storch, engineer at Ann Emery hall, and his children are shown at the Milwaukee Road depot where they met their son and brother, Alois Storch with hi...
Photograph

Little Red Inn — Exterior

Date: 01 02 1998
Description: "Our group is joined by Larry & Kay Hren and their children, Parker & Carly at the Little Red Inn in St. Lawrence." Top row, from left to right; Kay Hren, ...
Photograph

Callahan's Grill & Bar — Exterior

Date: 02 20 1998
Description: "Our group is joined by Kay Widmer-Hren, Parker & Carly, at Callahan's Grill & Bar at 121 North Pioneer Road, Fond du Lac." From left to right; Shirley ...
Photograph

Northwinds Supper Club

Date: 08 18 2000
Description: "The Northwinds Supper Club is located on Highway 45, just south of Eden, WI." Carly and Parker Hren lean against the sign. The fish fry group stands in th...
Photograph

Wendt's on the Lake — Exterior

Date: 07 06 2007
Description: "We visit Wendt's On The Lake, at N9699 Lakeshore Drive, Van Dyne. Pictured are (left to right): John Bodden, Buddy Ruecker, Dan and Sue Minneck, Conner Mi...
Photograph

Bodden Family Reunion

Date: 08 1981
Description: "Bodden family reunion. From left; Herb, Oscar, Armella, Clara, Joe, and John Bodden, are parents of all these offspring."
Photograph

Group Portrait of Children and Adults

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Description: Group portrait. In front an elderly man, and a woman holding a child in her lap are sitting in chairs. Standing behind them are three men, three women, a g...
Photograph

People in front of Frame House

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Description: Three women, one holding a child, are posing sitting in chairs in the yard of a frame house, along with a woman holding an infant, three girls, and one boy...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 776-783

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Description: That instinct path to the waiting door
is a mile of running
beyond the last ounce of bursting heart
Photograph

Silver Wedding of Bradford and Alice Gillett

Date: 1905
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the 25th wedding anniversary of Bradford and Alice Gillett — Sherwin Gillett's uncle and aunt, seated in the center. The other gu...
Photograph

Conrad Schmitt Family

Date: 1916
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Conrad Schmitt family. Sherwin and Emma (nee Schmitt) Gillett are standing on the far left. Sherwin is holding infant son, Lo...
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of Elderly Woman and Three Children

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Description: Group portrait of an elderly woman and three small children, including an infant. The woman is seated in a chair with the infant on her lap. A boy stands o...

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