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Marlin Perkins and Zebra

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Description: Marlin Perkins shaking hands behind a zebra.
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Making Friends

Date: 1950
Description: A small raccoon sniffs the head of an unsure-looking baby sitting in a car seat outdoors on a sidewalk against the side of a building.
Book or Pamphlet

Dennett Harvesting Machine Co. Catalog

Date: 1881
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Dennett twine binding harvesters, light mowers, and reapers manufactured by the Dennett Harvesting Machine Company. Fea...
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Tiger Cubs at Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 05 25 1932
Description: Tiger cubs, Apollo and Hercules, standing in a cage at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), purchased through a fund drive by The Capital Times and...
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Tiger Cubs at Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 05 25 1932
Description: Tiger cubs, Apollo and Hercules, reclining in a cage at the Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), purchased with a fund drive by "The Capital Times" and RKO th...
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Mastodon

Date: 06 18 1972
Description: A Mastodon Americanus Cuvier on display in the Science and Natural History Museum in Science Hall on Langdon and Park Streets at the University of Wisconsi...
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Uncovering Bison Bones

Date: 1936
Description: Three men looking over the process of uncovering bones of a bison in Interstate Park.
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Bison Bones

Date: 10 09 1936
Description: Bones of a bison still in the earth as found.
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Bison Jaw in the Peat Pit

Date: 1936
Description: The jaw bone of Bison Occidentalis in the peat pit at Interstate Park.
Drawing

The Teenie Weenies: An Unwelcome Guest

Date: 06 17 1916
Description: "An Unwelcome Guest." Three Teenie Weenie women walk into a bedroom surprised to see a mouse peacfully sleeping - in a Teenie Weenie bed!
Photograph

Studio Portrait of William Massey, Grace Decorra Twocrow

Date: 1890
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk group in front of a painted backdrop. On the left is William Massey (ChawRoChooChayKah), sitting with his arm aro...
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Shorewood Hills Community League "Shindig" Event

Date: 10 20 1950
Description: Magician Jack Hurlbut, right, pulls a skunk out of a hat in front of Charles Copp, master of ceremonies at the Shorewood Community League's "Shindig" party...
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Mastadon Skull

Date: 1904
Description: A mastodon skull unearthed at Quartz Creek at a depth of 42 feet. Photograph taken at Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada. Text on photograph reads: "Copyrigh...
Postcard

Leopard Cage

Date: 1940
Description: Leopard in a cage at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo).
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Night Hunters

Date: 1890
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two hunters, Jacob Gross, sitting and holding a lantern, and Henry Herold, standing and holding a rifle a...
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Dairy Days Parade

Date: 1950
Description: Bernard Arms holding a firearm poses on a parade float decorated in an autumn theme, including a stuffed bear, fox, and squirrel. The parade was a part of ...
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Dyer Barn — Exterior

Date: 2004
Description: Dale and Pam Dyer with Elisa (8) and Napoleon, the dog, live at N7863 Hwy P (Section 27). The Dyers, who moved here in 1989, have a host of animals, includ...
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Junior Division of the University League

Date: 09 27 1953
Description: Richard and Ruth Shackleford posing with a prize white mink outside of the small animal house at 2105 Herrick Drive. Richard, a member of the U.W. genetics...
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Mink Trapping on the Wolf River

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Description: A hunter, sporting cold weather attire and thigh-high rubber boots, pulls a mink in a trap off the shoreline and on to his small, motorized, fishing boat. ...
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Slaughtered Pigs

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Description: Two men in the process of butchering three large hogs. The hogs hang off of hooks from a track on the ceiling of the slaughterhouse. The man on the right c...

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