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Float Honoring St. Norbert's Father Inama

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Description: A sign above a large map of Wisconsin counties is in Latin: "Pro Deo Et Patria," meaning For God and Country, and on the left is a decorated cross, on top ...
Photograph

Civil War Soldier

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Description: A tinted tintype of a Civil War soldier posing with an officer's sword in front of an elaborately painted studio backdrop depicting a tent, an American fla...
Photograph

Senator McGovern

Date: 1977
Description: George McGovern photographed during an interview by Robert Novak. Behind McGovern is a desk, American flag, and a large map of the world.
Photograph

Chicago & Northwestern Railway Poster

Date: 1853
Description: Poster advertising Chicago & Northwestern Railway featuring a map of the route, and an image of an eagle with a banner in its beak and an American flag.
Photograph

Classroom at State School for the Deaf

Date: 1893
Description: Male and female students sitting in desks while writing on what appear to be slates. A group sitting in a circle at the back of the room are possibly pract...
Photograph

Senator Wiley With Missile Model And Map Of Cuba

Date: 10 24 1962
Description: Senator Alexander Wiley posing with a model of a missile pointed at a map of Cuba.
Photograph

Oil Progress Week Proclamation Signing

Date: 10 12 1951
Description: Madison mayor George Forster signs the proclamation to observe Oil Progress Week, while Arnold Wake (center), the general chairman for the observance, and ...
Postcard

Promotional Postcard

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Description: Promotional postcard with three city scene sketches and thirty-one characteristics of the city listed. Caption reads: "Kankakee the Rising City Beautiful."
Print

International Truck Advertising Proof

Date: 07 1941
Description: Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring color illustrations of a truck and the United States, largely in red, white and blue. Includes the te...
Photograph

International Civil Defense Directors

Date: 09 13 1954
Description: Wisconsin's civil defense director, Major General Ralph Olson (seated), hosts four European civil defense directors on a tour of civil defense units in the...
Photograph

Obey and Audrey Hepburn

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Description: Actress Audrey Hepburn, then a representative of UNICEF, visiting Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey in his office. She was in Washington to testify on b...
Postcard

The Schoolhouse

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Description: Color postcard of the classroom of the Muddy Hollow School at Stonefield. Slate tablets are on the desks.
Print

Hansen's Scandia Restaurant Menu

Date: 1953
Description: Front and back of one-page menu from the Scandia Restaurant, with a whimsical cartoon map rendering by Hakon Mielche of the Scandinavian countries and the ...
Book or Pamphlet

Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company Brochure Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front cover of a brochure for Champion Mowers and Binders. Features a color illustration of the office building of the Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Compan...
Photograph

Gathering of Men

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Description: Group portrait of a group of men posing sitting and standing around a table. There are several female nude photographs hanging on the wall behind them.
Photograph

Brooks McCormick with Group of Men Holding Minuteman Flag

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Description: Group portrait of three unidentified men and Brooks McCormick standing and holding a Minuteman flag in front of a large world map.
Poster

The Teacher Serves the Nation in War — in Peace

Date: 1941
Description: World War II poster published by the National Education Association, showing a teacher working at a globe with a girl and a boy. The boy is holding a book ...
Photograph

The Truck that Crossed the Sahara

Date: 03 18 1929
Description: "The Truck that Crossed the Sahara" on display in a showroom.
Photograph

Hostesses for the Wisconsin Capitol Information Booth

Date: 07 01 1958
Description: Governor Vernon W. Thomson looks over a Wisconsin road map with three college student hostesses at the information booth in the Capitol rotunda. The studen...
Photograph

"Truck That Crossed The Sahara"

Date: 04 06 1929
Description: View through a show window of a display of the truck that crossed the Sahara. There is a map on an easel on the left. A poster on an easel on the right has...

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