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Poster

Gammon and Deering Advertising Poster

Date: 1876
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog

Date: 1891
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer working in a field with a grain binder. A young man holds a par...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Coeds

Date: 1920
Description: University of Wisconsin students sitting on the base of the Lincoln statue on Bascom Hill.
Photograph

International Bus

Date: 11 09 1926
Description: Laura Stewart and her Jazz Pirates pose alongside an International bus. The bus features windows with curtains and luggage rack(?) on top. There is a monum...
Photograph

Fashionable Couples

Date: 1869
Description: Two well-dressed couples standing behind a wood fence in front of a frame house with hipped roof.
Photograph

First School House in DeForest Wis.

Date: 1875
Description: The first school house in DeForest is a frame, one-story building with shutters. The group posed in front consists of the woman teacher and her students. B...
Photograph

Group of Men at Digging Site

Date: 1936
Description: A group of well-dressed men gather at the digging site at Interstate Park.
Photograph

Woman Standing Near Fence

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Description: Woman posed standing by a barbed wire fence.
Photograph

Women Crossing Street

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Description: Four women crossing a street. One of the women in the foreground is dressed in a fashionable dress and hat.
Photograph

Pedestrians near the Wisconsin National Bank

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Description: Several pedestrians walking near the Wisconsin National Bank building.
Photograph

Group of Women Crossing Street

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Description: A line of pedestrians cross a busy street near a building with a sign for Gimbels Brothers.
Photograph

Pedestrians Crossing Street

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Description: Two women and a man in the foreground hold onto their hats on a windy day as they cross a street.
Photograph

Two Women in Buggy

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Description: Two fashionably dressed women sit in a buggy that is pulled by a horse. The corner of a building is in the background on the right.
Photograph

Women in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Two women wearing large hats stand in a field carrying a pail. Farm buildings are in the far background.
Photograph

Krueger Family in the Snow

Date: 02 1905
Description: Winter scene with Jennie, Flora and Edgar Krueger standing at the end of a path shoveled in extremely deep snow. Farm buildings and the base of what may be...
Photograph

Women in Fur Coats

Date: 1926
Description: Three women pose together wearing fur coats and fashionable hats. The woman in the middle is perched on a column near a storefront, and the woman on the ri...
Photograph

Woman with Bird on her Head

Date: 1936
Description: A woman stands on a golf course with a bird (a crow?)on her head. She is wearing a hat and sweater, and holds something (food?) in her right hand near the ...
Photograph

Skillet Falls in Winter

Date: 1909
Description: Elevated view of a woman holding a walking stick and wearing a hat and fur coat with a fur stole sitting on a ledge of ice at Skillet Falls. Bare trees fra...
Photograph

Two Women at Skillet Falls

Date: 1909
Description: Two well-dressed women stand at the foot of Skillet Falls. The trees in the background are bare; the hill behind is covered with tree stumps. The hill is...
Photograph

Skillet Falls in Winter

Date: 1909
Description: A well-dressed woman with a walking stick stands on ice at the partially frozen Skillet Falls. Bare trees frame the scene. There are patches of snow and tr...

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