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Central High School Girl Tennis Players

Date: 03 21 1929
Description: Group portrait of large group of female tennis players from Central High School.
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Portrait of Mrs. Sutherland

Date: 12 10 1927
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Sutherland.
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Group Portrait of Three Women and a Child

Date: 08 02 1927
Description: Portrait of three women and a child for Mrs. Dowling of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Telegraph Operator

Date: 09 27 1956
Description: Miss Nellie Millane sits at the telegraph key at Western Union Telegraph Co. where she worked as a Morse Code operator for 49 years.
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Farm Equipment Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Milwaukee line of farm implements featuring a chromolithograph illustration of a woman ...
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Fish Bait

Date: 08 02 1963
Description: Contestant baits her hook in Washington Park at the annual Milwaukee county park commission's fishing rodeo.
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Assembly Work

Date: 1950
Description: A woman looks over parts used as bases for miniature Christmas trees.
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Metalworker

Date: 1950
Description: The components of a necklace come together under the skilled hands of a jewelry maker.
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Gem Cutter

Date: 1950
Description: Arthur Virthaler, professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the studio with materials and tools for making jewelry. He was known for sim...
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Elizabeth Wickenden

Date: 1960
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Professor Elizabeth Wickenden, professor of urban studies and technical consultant on public social policy to the Nationa...
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Native Americans near Keshena

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Description: Native Americans on the Menominee Reservation near Keshena, Wisconsin. A white man in the foreground appears to be drawing something out of camera range. T...
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Carrie Chapman Catt

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Description: Portrait of Carrie Chapman Catt, a leader in the women's suffrage movement, peace advocate, and first president of the League of Women Voters.
Print

A Man of Nootka Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 38. Portrait from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
Photograph

Tecumsa and Family

Date: 1922
Description: Tecumsa, a Potowatomi, and his family. Tecumsa is standing in the back in the center, and a man is sitting in front of him on a blanket holding up an hatch...
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Woman Dressed in Ho-Chunk Clothing

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young woman dressed as a Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indian woman in fine jewelry and clothing.
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Alice in Dairyland, Barbara Brown

Date: 1955
Description: Alice in Dairyland for 1955, Barbara Brown, milking a cow by hand.
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Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen McCabe

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Mary Ellen McCabe, 1954 Alice in Dairyland, enters State Fair Park in her official convertible, escorted by police officers on Harley-Davidson motorcycles ...
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Ho-Chunk Man with Drum

Date: 07 24 1946
Description: Unidentifed man with drum who was probably recorded for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas, probably at Winnebago (HoChunk) Indian Village.
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Storefront on State Street

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Description: 216 - 216 1/2 State Street, with storefront of T.F. Dresen.
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Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen Jenks

Date: 09 02 1953
Description: Mary Ellen Jenks, the 1953 Alice in Dairyland, visits a Boy Scout camp, where she is surrounded by admiring scouts and a member of the navy.

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