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Autographing Tea

Date: 09 21 1957
Description: Three women are attending an autographing tea at Graham's Book and Stationary Store, 3238 University Avenue. They are, left to right: Helen Fairchild, Hele...
Photograph

Worker Stocking Freezer Cabinet with Ice Cream

Date: 1977
Description: A routeman for Lilly Ice Cream of Bryan, Texas, is stocking a freezer cabinet with a sign that reads: "Lilly Ice Cream." The man is wearing dark blue slack...
Print

Norddeutscher Lloyd Supper Menu

Date: 03 21 1901
Description: Supper menu from the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company, Bremen, with an illustration of people on the top d...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 690-696

Date: 
Description: For any master line drawn fine enough or spoken well
let us call all professionals to wear the laurel
and deck the Halls of Fame
Photograph

Woman Posed with Book

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Description: Sixteenth plate ferrotype/tintype of an old woman. She is seated with her hands in her lap and is holding a book. She is wearing a white bonnet tied with a...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of a Teenage Boy

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a smiling boy, possibly Ho Chunk, posed standing with books under his right arm with his hands in his trouser pockets. He is...
Drawing

New Beekeeper with Books

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Description: Black and white drawing of a beekeeper sitting on a hive box leaning against a tree, his chin resting on his hand. He is holding a book titled "The Hive an...
Photograph

La Follette, Harper, Roe & Zimmerman Law Office

Date: 1899
Description: Two views of the interior of the La Follette, Harper, Roe & Zimmerman law office. Mr. Zimmerman is sitting in his inner office; the lady in the foreground ...
Photograph

Library at Lind's Shop

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Description: Interior view one of of Hillsboro's early libraries. The library was located in the back of Addie Lind's millinery shop where it connected to an adjoining ...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Calendar — February and March

Date: 1893
Description: Calendar with the months of February and March, 1893. Features an illustration of a woman sitting on the top of a globe. She is holding a wreath, and is re...
Photograph

Home Economics Class

Date: 1910
Description: Home economics students (all women) dressed in aprons, dresses, and hats, stand in rows at counters tending pots at the Winnebago County School of Agricult...
Book or Pamphlet

Frost and Wood Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Cover of catalog with a color illustration of a man wearing boots and holding a hat writing in a large book. The text reads: "Twentieth Century Fame, the F...
Photograph

Indoor Group Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Indoor group portrait of an unidentified family group. There is a woman posing sitting in a chair between two men posing standing on either side of her. On...
Photograph

Outdoor Group Portrait of European Americans

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a very large group of unidentified men, women, and children posing standing in front of a wooden building.
Photograph

Mary Krueger Reading Outdoors

Date: 1901
Description: Mary Krueger is sitting in a chair outdoors reading a book. Her hat and umbrella are resting against a bush next to her.
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 a man reclining in a chair, while holding a large sheet of pape...
Photograph

Outdoor Group Portrait of the Twins with their Grandfather

Date: 1904
Description: Outdoor portrait of August, Jennie, and Edgar Krueger in the yard. August is sitting in a wicker rocking chair with a book open in his lap, while the twins...
Photograph

Boy Sitting at Table

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Description: A boy is sitting on a book or box on top of a chair at a small wooden table holding playing cards. Against the wall in the background are bookshelves, cove...
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of August, Mary, and Sarah Krueger

Date: 1909
Description: Outdoor portrait of August Krueger sitting in a wicker rocking chair supporting an open book on his lap, while Mary and Sarah Krueger are standing behind h...
Photograph

Outdoor Group Portrait of the Thwaites Family

Date: 1899
Description: Outdoor group portrait of eight members of the Thwaites family. Three of the women are sitting, and one has a young boy sitting in her lap. Two men, a woma...

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