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Holiday Canned Food Drive

Date: 11 22 1955
Description: Thomas Constable (left) and Walter Medenski (right), pose in front of canned food gathered by pupils at the Center Street school for the Salvation Army's T...
Photograph

Lexington Market

Date: 1905
Description: People standing and posing outdoors. Caption reads: "Lexington Market."
Manuscript

Country Life at Syene

Date: 01 1913
Description: Cover of manuscript keepsake souvenir scrapbook titled "Country Life at Syene." The photograph of canned items and bins of fruit and vegetables in the cell...
Photograph

J.J. Emmerich Cranberry Company

Date: 09 21 1922
Description: Elevated view of the J.J. Emmerich Cranberry Company showing the bog in the background with the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indian cranberry pickers' camp at the ...
Photograph

Man Bobbing for Apples

Date: 11 10 1963
Description: A college male successfully plunges for an apple while a college female looks on.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: This is the Kind of Peaches We Raise

Date: 1924
Description: Photomontage of three women lifting baskets filled with giant peaches. The foreground as lines with other giant peaches. The top of the image is trimmed ...
Photograph

Picnic Behind Highlander

Date: 1935
Description: A student at Highlander having a picnic behind the school.
Photograph

"The Fruit Boat"

Date: 1950
Description: A Coca-Cola vending machine is on the right, near a table with a scale and boxes of fruit, under an awning. On the left is a car near the curb.
Photograph

"The Fruit Boat"

Date: 1950
Description: A two-door sedan is parked in front of the market, near a large sign.
Print

If You're Screwy Roosevelt Sticker

Date: 1944
Description: Campaign sticker for the re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The use of the apple theme was a subtle reminder to those who might be tempted to vote for ...
Photograph

Our Lady of the Valley

Date: 1950
Description: View of three Trappist monks from Our Lady of the Valley abbey harvesting apples. Two men are standing on ladders and picking the fruit, while the third ma...
Postcard

With Best Christmas Wishes

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard with Santa Claus, surrounded by pine boughs and candles, spilling toys and treats out of his sack. He is wearing a brown coat, mittens and...
Photograph

Watermelon Time

Date: 1900
Description: View of a family posed with slices of watermelon sitting in the yard near a log cabin. There is a large mortar and pestle in the right foreground.
Print

Wisconsin Strawberries, Label

Date: 07 12 1940
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Red and yellow label with the words: "Selected Wisconsin Strawberries." A box of stra...
Print

Cherefresh, Label

Date: 06 20 1936
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "The Original Refreshing Cherry Drink." Depicts a bunch of cherries, and a glass of t...
Print

Hotel Badger Dinner Menu

Date: 10 29 1908
Description: Front cover and menu listing from the Hotel Badger, with an etching of a fox sitting on the ground looking up at a bunch of grapes hanging on a vine over a...
Print

L’Etoile Restaurant Wine Tasting Dinner with Terrance Leighton Menu

Date: 03 23 1993
Description: One-page autographed menu for a six-course food and wine-tasting event with Terrance Leighton, with the outline of a wine bottle and a bunch of grapes in i...
Print

L'Etoile Restaurant Farmers' Market Dinner Menu

Date: 1994
Description: One-page menu for a dinner at L'Etoile Restaurant based on ingredients sourced from the farmers market, with listings of farms and farmers, as well as illu...
Print

L'Etoile Restaurant 20th Anniversary Dinner Menu

Date: 08 1996
Description: One-page menu for the twentieth anniversary of L'Etoile Restaurant, with a side illustration of vegetables, fruit, leaves, and other plant life.
Print

L'Etoile Restaurant Wine Dinner Menu

Date: 01 15 1999
Description: One-page menu for a wine dinner at L'Etoile Restaurant with vintner Heidi Schrock and importer Terry Theise, with a side illustration by Rebekkah Luce of g...

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