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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
Photograph

Christening the S.S. Harvester

Date: 07 15 1911
Description: Christening ceremony for the S.S. Harvester. The ship was built for the Wisconsin Steel Company, a subsidiary of International Harvester. The 545-fo...
Photograph

First Honors — Fall Festival

Date: 1927
Description: Sons of Norway group in traditional Norwegian costume standing on a replica of a viking ship as part of the Fall Festival. A large American flag flies from...
Photograph

Mrs. Brandel with the Tionesta

Date: 1930
Description: Mrs. Brandel poses on a dock in front of the ship the Tionesta.
Poster

Chicago and North Western Railway System Anniversary Travel Poster

Date: 1948
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the Chicago and North Western Railway's 100th Anniversary from 1848 to 1948. The poster features the artist Paul...
Poster

Food Will Win the War

Date: 1917
Description: World War I poster urging newly arrived immigrants to conserve food to aid the allied cause. People in ethnic costume being ushered into the United States ...
Photograph

Stranded Ship "Galena"

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Description: A bark, the "Galena," stranded on Clatsop Beach, with three men and two women on the beach in the foreground.
Photograph

Sailing in Dering Harbor

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Description: View of a family sailing in Dering Harbor. The sailboat is carrying a man, woman, and girl. In the background is a small ship.
Photograph

Sampan Boat in Hong Kong Harbor

Date: 09 1951
Description: A sampan boat in Hong Kong harbor. Perhaps what caught the photographer's eye was the laundry on the boat hanging out to dry.
Photograph

Dorothy Dignam on S.S. "Geo. Washington"

Date: 05 1929
Description: Dorothy Dignam, one of the first women in the advertising field, worked in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York City, and was active in raising the status o...
Photograph

Olaus Pederson Grimsrud

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Description: Full-length portrait of Olaus Pederson Grimsrud standing on the deck of a ship. Other people are sitting and standing behind him.
Print

Milwaukee River, at Milwaukee

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Description: Engraved view of the Milwaukee River.
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...
Print

Norddeutscher Lloyd Lunch Menu

Date: 03 23 1901
Description: Luncheon menu from the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company, Bremen, with a three-quarter illustration of peop...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 334-342

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Description: Star of our Jesus, so extra bright
Make me a country child just for tonight

Bur Grinnerung an die
Jubiläumsfeier der Freien Gemeinde von Sauf ...
Print

S.S. Hamburg Farewell Dinner Menu

Date: 07 08 1936
Description: Farewell dinner menu in the form of a house decorated with folk art painting and trim, and a man and a woman in traditional dress perched at the two open w...
Print

M.S. Kungsholm Dinner Menu

Date: 01 13 1934
Description: Handwritten menu and "Bon Voyage" greeting in a card from the Swedish American Line, with a Swedish castle on the cover, and on the inside of the card, a t...
Print

Red Star Line Dinner Menu

Date: 09 17 1908
Description: Dinner menu for the S.S. Marquette, with people in a rowboat near a larger ship, with windmills in the distance on shore. The image is signed "Heuss...
Print

Red Star Line Luncheon Menu

Date: 09 20 1908
Description: Luncheon menu from the S.S. Marquette, with women and a man in traditional Dutch clothing, standing or sitting on shore and looking out at a ship. ...
Photograph

Crossing the Atlantic

Date: 1906
Description: Group of men and woman on the deck of a steamship crossing the Atlantic. Dr. Joseph Smith is seated second from the right and Mary E. Smith is seated thir...

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