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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The doorway of the Lucius Fairchild house at 302 South Wisconsin Avenue (renamed Monona Avenue in 1877) near Lake Monona. The house was constructed in 1850... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Chromolithographed card issued by the Woolson Spice Co. to present Christmas greetings to its customers. The card depicts children around a Christmas tree,... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | The First Universalist Church, built in 1861. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Smith Hall at Ripon College features a three-story porch, supported by columns and which shelters the entrance. Brackets add decoration to the roof. Vines ... |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Two holiday cards with European Robins. Robins are a symbol of Christmas in Great Britain. Caption reads: "A merry christmas." Chromolithograph. Images and... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | A black and silver, hand-drawn, pen and ink holiday card with an Asian theme. A woman and a young man are facing each other, and a dried flower and sprig o... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Holiday card featuring a boy and his dog. The boy is wearing a white and blue sailor suit. The dog is sitting up and begging with a sprig of holly in his m... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Holiday card featuring a girl and her dog. The girl is wearing stockings, a red dress with a white lace collar, and black shoes. The dog is standing uprigh... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with flowers and gold and white flourishes. Text at bottom reads: "Ever Thine." It has been mounted to a piece of paper and a silhouet... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with a cornucopia filled with flowers and foliage. On the edge of the mouth it reads: "Let the Smiles of Youth Appearing." Music notat... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with a flower and large leaf. A verse is printed on the leaf. It reads: "Vainly shall we list for voices, made by absence doubly dear,... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with a center oval-framed image of a woman and a cherub leaning on an ornamental stone wall. A column with an ornate top is to the rig... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card of three, die cut pieces. On top is a little girl inside of orchid leaves and blossoms. She is wearing a long white dress and a headba... |
| Date: | 09 1887 |
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| Description: | Lunch menu from the souvenir booklet of the Complimentary Excursion to General Passenger & Ticket Agents, with an embossed illustration of a spider in her ... |
| Date: | 08 01 1889 |
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| Description: | Exterior and interior menu listing of the Fountain Spring House, with visitors strolling the grounds of a tree-filled park with the hotel in the background... |
| Date: | 10 14 1887 |
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| Description: | One-page menu for the visit of President Grover Cleveland to Memphis, with a woman with an upswept hairstyle and a choker, wearing a low-necked Delftware-p... |
| Date: | 12 15 1888 |
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| Description: | Front and inside front covers of a menu with a three-dimensional violin, a stringed bow, a sprig of cloth holly leaves and three berries, and a blue ribbon... |
| Date: | 09 02 1897 |
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| Description: | Interior of the John A. Landfair home, showing floral decorations for the wedding of Kate Landfair and Marvin B. Rosenberry, later Chief Justice of the Sup... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph card featuring an illustration of a man (or boy) perched barefoot on a rope ladder at the edge of a balcony. He is trying to kiss the woma... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover with an illustration of a framed portrait of a red headed woman wearing an off-white hat and pink dress, surrounded by foliage and flowers. |
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