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Florence Lawrence Demonstrates Emotions

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Description: Series of eight head and shoulders portraits of Florence Lawrence using facial expressions to depict hilarity, piety, concentration, horror, determination,...
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Bear Cubs

Date: 05 1942
Description: An unidentified woman and a man are tending to two small bear cubs that are wearing harnesses, at the counter of a display in the All-Wisconsin Outdoor Sho...
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Oscar Mayer Sales Room

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Description: Elevated view of men sitting at a row of cubicles. Some of the men are talking telephones, and other men are writing on legal pads. Oscar Mayer advertiseme...
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Smokey Bear

Date: 1944
Description: A figure of Smokey Bear is posed standing with a paw resting on a sign advertising the Wisconsin Conservation Department. Behind him is a sign with his mot...
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Launch of "This is Wisconsin" Booklet-State Map Surrounded by Wisconsin Grown Foods

Date: 03 29 1954
Description: Food from every food-producing county in the state and seventy-one candles - one for each county - frames a 25-foot long map of Wisconsin at the preview ev...
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Paul Jones Liquor Display

Date: 07 1955
Description: Hy Novis (?) holding a bottle by a Paul Jones liquor display.
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Rexall Christmas in June

Date: 06 04 1959
Description: A man in a pharmacist smock is examining a large toy as two other men are looking on. They are at the Hotel Loraine at a merchandise display for all mercha...
Postcard

The Friendly Buckhorn

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "The 'Friendly Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wisconsin". Text on reverse reads: "No vacation trip to Northern Wisconsin is complete without a ...
Postcard

The Friendly Buckhorn

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "The 'Friendly Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wisconsin." Text on reverse reads: "No vacation trip to Northern Wisconsin is complete without a ...
Postcard

The Buckhorn

Date: 1925
Description: Text on front reads: "'The Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wis." The Buckhorn Tavern had an amazing display of taxidermy and curios, including some hoaxes: a shovel-...
Postcard

The Friendly Buckhorn

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "The 'Friendly Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wisconsin." Text on the reverse reads: "No vacation trip to Northern Wisconsin is complete withou...

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