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President F.D. Roosevelt Signs the Social Security Measure

Date: 08 14 1935
Description: President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act. Surrounding him are: Robert L. Doughton, Senator Barkley, Senator Wagner, Congressman John Dingell, Secr...
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Railroad Men

Date: 1897
Description: Group of railroad employees standing in the doorway of a store.
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Man Working at Desk

Date: 1900
Description: Man, seen from the side, seated working at a small desk or table and smoking a cigar. Behind him is a wooden gate and a metal fence.
Print

Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul and Pacific Railway Lounge and Buffet Service Menu

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Description: Buffet luncheon and drinks menu for the CMSP&P railway, with a waiter ready to serve a table of three men sitting at a table in the lounge car with drinks ...
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The Day's Catch

Date: 1904
Description: Group portrait of men and boys standing in front of two houses all holding a long stringer of fish. Three women are standing in the yard in the background....
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Record Breaking Catch

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Description: Group portrait of five local youth showing off a record breaking catch of thirty large Carp hanging on a stringer. Town elders, all men, pose in the backgr...
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Studio Portrait of Two Unidentified European American Men

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young men wearing hats and suits. The man on the left is posing standing with a cigar in ...
Print

Gridiron Club Menu Art Souvenir

Date: 05 1947
Description: Cartoon, mounted on board, by Clifford K. Berryman of candidates wearing spring dresses and hats or headbands, and dancing around a maypole, with the Washi...
Book or Pamphlet

Press Club of Chicago Dinner Menu

Date: 05 02 1902
Description: Front cover and first two pages of the menu and program for a dinner honoring newspaperman Opie Read. There is a tipped-in drawing of Read on the cover, dr...
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Sauk County Conscripts

Date: 05 27 1918
Description: A group of more than 70 draftees poses on the steps of the Sauk County Courthouse on the day they left Baraboo for Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois. Most...
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United Nation Official Addresses Madison Civics Club

Date: 10 14 1960
Description: Sir Leslie Munro of New Zealand, former president of both the United Nation General Assembly and Security Council, is in Madison to address the Madison Civ...
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Freight Yard

Date: 1910
Description: Men posing in the Winneconne Freight Yard. Some of the men stand and sit on two hay wagons, and three men stand on the ground, in front of a box car. Some ...
Book or Pamphlet

Old Settlers' Club Banquet Menu

Date: 02 22 1908
Description: Front cover and menu page of the annual banquet for the Old Settlers' Club. On the top left of the cover is an oval portrait of club president George Willi...
Photograph

S.M. Babcock

Date: 1888
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of group of nine men, identified on the reverse as associates of the Geneva, New York Experiment Station. St...
Photograph

C.E. Mower General Store

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Description: Outdoor view of a European American boy wearing a cap who is entering the shop of C.E. Mower. Probably located on the north side of Main Street. There is a...
Photograph

Portrait of a Ho Chunk Group

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Description: Three women and a young man pose in front of the wood door of a brick building. The man stands behind the three woman, and is wearing a hat, suit coat and ...
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The Duck Hunters

Date: 1910
Description: Five duck hunters stand in front of Mike Gavin's Buffet holding guns, paddles, and stringers of dead ducks.
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Korn Brothers

Date: 1910
Description: Three men (Korn brothers), all wearing hats, and two of them in suits, hold a bamboo pole holding stringers of fish between them. They are standing on a do...
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University of Wisconsin Athletic Department Dinner

Date: 02 28 1956
Description: Two University of Wisconsin assistant coaches attend a dinner hosted by maintenance foreman Joe Betlach. Pictured are Vern Woodward (left), boxing, and Tho...
Postcard

Man with Gilt Edge Liberty Furnace

Date: 1920
Description: A man holding a cigar stands near a Gilt Edge Liberty furnace. The R.J. Schwab and Sons Co. in Milwaukee sold Liberty and Pipeless furnaces for over fifty ...

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