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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
| Date: | 05 25 1962 |
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| Description: | A general view of the "War museum," originally in the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.), Civil War Memorial hall, on the top floor of the Wisconsin State... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View of the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention's exhibit at the 1928 American Medical Association Convention, prepared and conducted by the College of Pharmacy ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Office supply show sponsored by Bill Goff, Inc., featuring Ediphones produced by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Employees(?) learning about a chain drive gear at the St. Paul Flax and Twine Mill. Portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and an advertising p... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | International Harvester Service Bureau poster for speaker "Frank Stockdale, The Mirthful Orator With A Message." |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for speaker Frank Stockdale and his program: "An Illustrated Story, the Dawn of Plenty." The program is described as a "Vital Entertaini... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for speaker Frank Stockdale and his program: "An Illustrated Story, the Dawn of Plenty." The program is described as a "Vital Entertaini... |
| Date: | 04 02 1987 |
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| Description: | Three school children are posing for a video camera portrait, one attraction at a school fair sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Certificate issued to E.M. Griffith, the Wisconsin State Forester, so that Griffith could prove that he had flown at an altitude of 1600 feet in the "flyin... |
| Date: | 09 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Inc., window #7, "Were you a September baby?" 14 photographic portraits on display for Photo Studio, Second Floor. |
| Date: | 01 05 1935 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Governor Albert G. Schmedeman, painted by Merton Grenhagen, in the gallery of governors at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Mary and Shurley, daugh... |
| Date: | 10 19 1931 |
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| Description: | Edison kinetascope, patented in 1897, one of the first motion picture projectors invented by Thomas A. Edison. It is hand cranked and chain driven. |
| Date: | 10 03 1900 |
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| Description: | View from audience of William Jennings Bryan, as Democratic nominee for election to the presidency, addressing a crowd, estimated at 15,000 people, at a st... |
| Date: | 09 19 1900 |
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| Description: | Pamphlet of Robert M. La Follette's first speech of the campaign that took place at Schlitz Park. The pamphlet contains the full speech. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | The G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Memorial Hall, on the top floor of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | The G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Memorial Hall, on the top floor of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 05 07 1944 |
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| Description: | John Steuart Curry, University of Wisconsin Artist in Residence, and Wesley Kanuse with his painting of his brother, Kendall Kanuse. Kanuse won the major a... |
| Date: | 11 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Members of the Wisconsin Banking Commission shown examining a State Historical Society collection of coins and currency, and bank notes signed by some of W... |
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