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Peshtigo Fire

Date: 11 25 1871
Description: Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak...
Photograph

Men Wanted Poster

Date: 1930
Description: A U.S. government poster encouraging citizens to invest their money in banks and especially to buy U.S. Reconstruction bonds.
Magazine or Periodical

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

Date: 1870
Description: Magazine illustration of the home, titled: "Soldiers' National Asylum at Milwaukee, Wisconsin". The building is in the background, and in the foreground ar...
Photograph

Eagle Regiment Car

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Description: Dr. James A Jackson, Sr., who was a hospital steward for the 8th Wisconsin Regiment during the Civil War, riding in an open car during a GAR parade in Madi...
Photograph

Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 1918
Description: Two pelicans and other waterfowl on the lagoon in Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), opened in 1911.
Photograph

Duck Hunters

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Description: Two men standing holding guns, with birds draped around their necks from hunt. Line strung between trees shows additional kill from duck hunt. A dog is sit...
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Holiday Card with Three Singing Children

Date: 1925
Description: Holiday card with three children singing. They are sharing a songbook and a long striped scarf. Pine boughs, two candles, holly, two birds and a rectangula...
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Holiday Greetings

Date: 1929
Description: A combined holiday card and birth announcement with Santa Claus and a stork holding a banner between them that says "Holiday Greetings from the Knowltons i...
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Santa Claus with Candy Cane

Date: 1962
Description: Holiday card with Santa Claus holding a candy cane, surrounded by many symbols of the season: angels, stars, candles, birds, stockings, ornaments, gifts, b...
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Joyeux Noel!

Date: 1918
Description: Holiday card with a soldier walking while carrying a child who is waving an American flag. The soldier is wearing a uniform and a campaign hat. Two childre...
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My Valentine

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Description: Valentine's Day card showing a male bird standing on a tree branch with a top hat, cane and bouquet of flowers. To the right is a female bird wearing a hat...
Postcard

Scene at Arcadia

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Description: A man is watching deer eating grass. There is also a turkey on the right. Caption reads: "Scene at Arcadia, Wis."
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Tigerton Post Office Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Post Office at Tigerton, Wisconsin, with a stock Chinoiserie image of a man standing and a woman holding a fan sitting in either a boat o...
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Red Star Line Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Louis Auer & Son, Milwaukee passenger agents for the Red Star Line, with a bearded man in a cap and uniform steering a ship's wheel. The name...
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Evinrude Division Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Evinrude Division of Outboard Motors Corporation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with the corporation logo and a man racing along in a boat with...
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Wise's Axle Grease is the Best

Date: 1881
Description: Advertising card featuring an illustration of a man doffing his hat to a woman who is standing on a path holding an umbrella. Above their heads is a large ...
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L.A. May & Co. Advertising Card

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Description: Advertising card with color illustration of a man on hands and knees in the water holding the end of a firearm which is sticking out of the water. His hat ...
Manuscript

Ben Bergor Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of magician and entertainer Ben Bergor, promoting his availability as an after dinner speaker ("a truly new and humorous approach in storytellin...
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Ben Bergor Letterhead

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Description: Ben Bergor letterhead, promoting Bergor as a theatrical agent and entertainment consultant, with a cartoon of a bird wearing a top hat and a bow tie, and c...
Manuscript

Ben Bergor Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Ben Bergor, with illustrations of theatrical masks, Bergor's head, his "Remember this bird!" symbol, and a cartoon of Bergor at the bottom of...

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