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Girl's White Leather Gloves

Date: 1845
Description: These girl's gloves are made of off-white kid leather. They are completely hand-stitched in beige thread, top stitched around the fingers and thumb, with t...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 304-311

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Description: Always looking at the vacancy in that great sea of people

All there ever was was a greeting card
and that one a mirage
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 319-324

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Description: There used to be a quiet. It wasn't deafness, it was roses

But they don't make it any more
They think it was a toy
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 359-369

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Description: Everybody was wonderful

Stars kept rising, pink and gold
Trailing threads of breathless music
barely out of reach
Hand to hand around the n...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 690-696

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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
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St. Paul Knitting Works Yarn Samples

Date: 1889
Description: Seven yarn samples from St. Paul Knitting Works, dated between April 7, 1888 and February 21, 1889, affixed to a page in an Appleton Woolen Mills sample bo...
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Appleton Woolen Mills Fabric Samples

Date: 1881
Description: Colorful patterned wool fabric in an Appleton Woolen Mills sample book.
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Medal from the Exposition Internationale

Date: 1914
Description: Medal from the Exposition Internationale pinned to a board.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Floor Mosaic

Date: 1899
Description: Mosaic in the central lobby floor of the Wisconsin Historical Society, near the statue "Forward." This is the printer's mark of the Riverside Press. It was...

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