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Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling. |
Date: | 10 05 1931 |
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Description: | Portrait of George Stahl, chimney sweep, with a pipe in his mouth, and wearing a tall hat and carrying a bag and a rope around his shoulder. He is standing... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Jack Carson at the age of ten posing on front steps wearing a hat and leaning on a walking cane. |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | Double head and shoulders shot of Spencer Tracy in a sailor hat, from when he was in the Navy in the last days of World War I. |
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Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Vinnie Ream Hoxie, when she was a clerk in the Post Office Department and at the beginning of her art career, age 15. |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Portrait of Carl Schurz, seated, holding a hat and cane. |
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Description: | "Buffalo Bill" Cody and David Franklin Powell ("White Beaver") posing in in front of a painted backdrop in a Racine, Wisconsin gallery. This image was in t... |
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Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Menominee Indian chief Aquanama and Menominee Indian Paul Ackenebowa, seated, facing front, both wearing hats, coats and n... |
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Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a couple, who are the parents of Tom (?) Wallace. The woman is sitting with a blanket around her shoulder... |
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Description: | Arm in arm, Socialist Victor Berger and colleague Robert Hunter take a stroll in downtown Milwaukee. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | John R. Commons, a University of Wisconsin professor, is shown standing outside Sterling Hall with his hat on the ground at his feet. |
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Description: | Candid portrait of Osmund Johnson as an older man, wearing his hat askew. He served in Company K of the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. According to the... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Two men posing for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. James Gorman, standing, has a pipe in his mouth; the seated man holding a guitar is un... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Portrait of James Garland Sturgis in his West Point(?) cadet uniform. Born January 24, 1854; son of Samuel Davis Sturgis I and younger brother of Nina Stu... |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | Quarter-length profile portrait of a man with goatee wearing a fez. The details in the face, hair, and clothing are highlighted in charcoal. Unknown relat... |
Date: | 08 25 1936 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Historical Society employees Dawn Young and Ray Lamb who are staffing the museum's historical drugstore exhibit. |
Date: | 01 07 1937 |
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Description: | A traveling salesman with Willson's Monarch Labs is standing beside the horse-drawn wagon that took him on sales routes in rural Wisconsin. Willson manufac... |
Date: | 1965 |
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Description: | Buster Keaton (right) appraises a costume for a Seneca Grape Juice TV commercial with J. Wolcott, the company's Vice President. |
Date: | 1929 |
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Description: | Young Robert Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Bailey, holding up a baseball catcher's mitt. |
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Description: | Big Bear (a Ho-Chunk Man) sitting on the ground in front of Diamond Grotto. |
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