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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
Photograph

Girl and Three Young Men

Date: 03 15 1946
Description: Teenage girl with three young men, one in uniform, at a soda fountain. The boys are admiring her necklace and bracelet.
Print

Nabu-naa-kee-shick, Or One Side Of The Sky

Date: 1835
Description: Nabu-naa-kee-shick, or the One Side of the Sky, a Chief of the Chippewa (Ojibwa) Tribe. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at ...
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Family Outside of One-Story House

Date: 1898
Description: Eight people posing in front of a one-story clapboard house holding possessions. The man on the far left is holding a gun and wears a ammunition belt aroun...
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Child with Injured Foot

Date: 08 1957
Description: A young Algerian girl has her foot treated by a Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker in a tent. The man is wrapping the girl's foot in bandages. She ...
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Harriet Rhoads

Date: 1862
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Harriet Rhoads at the time of her marriage to Lieutenant D.G. Hudson of Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois (1862).
Photograph

Three Women at YWCA Tea

Date: 04 26 1944
Description: Silver tea, benefiting the YWCA at the Governor's residence, 130 E. Gilman Street. Shown standing around a silver tray and bottle, tokens of the christenin...
Photograph

Australian War Bride

Date: 07 01 1944
Description: Madison's first Austrailian war bride, Mrs. William R. Curkeet Jr., the former Bryony Helen Dutton, is shown on the right with her sister-in-law Mrs. Ralph...
Photograph

Lieutenant W. James Atkins

Date: 06 22 1944
Description: Portrait of Lieutenant W. James Atkins, son of Mrs. Margaret M. Atkins, served with the British Eighth army of the American Field Service in the Middle Eas...
Photograph

War Bond Sellers

Date: 12 12 1944
Description: One of a series of portraits of war bond sellers, part of the national retailer's Series E War Loan Campaign, representing Manchesters, Sears, Rennebohms, ...
Photograph

Doris Neff and David Gibson

Date: 07 1945
Description: Engagement photograph of Doris E. Neff and David V. Gibson Jr. He is in a Army Air Force uniform.
Photograph

Confiscated German Jewelry

Date: 10 17 1946
Description: Harry B. Haley (right) bought the diamond pin and 662 jewel bracelet held by George H. Brown, chief deputy U.S. Marshal for the Western Wisconsin District ...
Book or Pamphlet

44 - Woman Grooming Angora Rabbit

Date: 1943
Description: Woman holding angora rabbit in her arms and grooming it with a brush. Text on page says, "Wollpflege".
Book or Pamphlet

45 - Woman Grooming Angora Rabbit

Date: 1943
Description: Woman grooming angora rabbit on table with a brush.
Book or Pamphlet

46 - Woman Holding Angora Rabbit

Date: 1943
Description: Angora rabbit being held on table by woman, in preparation for the shearing of the rabbit fur. Text on page says, "Angora-Wollschur".
Book or Pamphlet

48 - Woman Shearing Angora Rabbit

Date: 1943
Description: Woman shearing angora rabbit on table. The rabbit is shown in various stages of being shaved, and there is also a group of woman shearing rabbits on a long...
Book or Pamphlet

47 - Woman Shearing Angora Rabbit

Date: 1943
Description: Woman shearing angora rabbit on table. Shows the rabbit in various stages of being shaved.
Postcard

World War I Soldier and Woman

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a woman seated in a chair, and a soldier dressed in a First World War uniform sitting on the arm of the chair. They are posi...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Little Soldier and Wife

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Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man and woman posing sitting and wearing regalia. The man is holding a rifle and another object upright with his left hand. L...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Charlie Saunders and Family

Date: 1900
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a European American man, and two Ho-Chunk women. The man is wearing a military hat and suit j...

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