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| Date: | 06 17 1929 |
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| Description: | Advertising placard for McCormick-Deering tractor service showing a cartoon of men playing baseball with onlookers peering over a fence. Dialog balloons co... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Engraving of a woman sitting in a chair with light from an attic window shining on her face. Next to her is a rumpled bed and a pull-toy overturned on the ... |
| Date: | 07 24 1932 |
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| Description: | "Bring 'em back alive" coloring contest display in the Capitol Theatre, at 209 State Street. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Cartoon of "Santa Claus Belated" by a fireplace delivering toys and speaking to a figure representing New Year 1878 saying: "Here we are again." |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view drawing of the grounds of Villa Louis, the estate of the fur trading Dousman family. After the death of H. Louis Dousman's mother in 1882, ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A sketch of the winning dress designed by Betty Lou Jahn of Milwaukee for the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948. Not only was the design worn by the first A... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Cartoon of young Hank Aaron swinging a bat, surrounded by other images of him, and text. Aaron broke his ankle as a major league rookie, on Sept. 5, 1954. ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Rebus from the National Temperance Advocate, 1884-1886 p.207. Solution is: "What harm can there be in a glass of beer? None, my man, in one or two. 'Tis... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Views of popular sites in Madison. Numerous different types of recreation are depicted, along with popular sites such as the Wisconsin State Capitol buildi... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Magazine illustration of the home, titled: "Soldiers' National Asylum at Milwaukee, Wisconsin". The building is in the background, and in the foreground ar... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Rolf "Pucks" Anderson and Herbert "Chub" Fowler playing cards on a train. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Drawing of a tent stretched between two trees and a fire with cookware in the rain. |
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| Description: | A group portrait in a studio of four women and three men posing behind a canvas with comical drawings of characters with the faces cutout. |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of a sign which is advertising "All Kinds of Bargains at the Fair" and is surrounded by drawings of men and women. A painted backdrop can... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Several women and one man wade in Lake Flora Dell. Delia Drew King is second from left, in a white straw hat. A hand-drawn caption beneath the photograph r... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Delia Drew King wades in Lake Flora Dell. There is a hill and shoreline in the background, and a group of people stands near a pier behind Delia. A hand-dr... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Frank Drew stands on the railroad tracks that run between Tunnel City and Lake Flora Dell. The tracks run into a tunnel in the background. A decorative bor... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A group of men, women, and children pose on a bluff above Lake Flora Dell. In the background are several cottages surrounded by trees near the shoreline of... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A group of individuals pose for a photograph while seated on and around a log lawn swing in the yard of the Drew cottage. Caption reads, "Well, well, here ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A group of individuals sit on a log lawn swing in the yard of the Drew cottage. Features a caption that reads, "Charter members of lunchgrabbers league." H... |
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