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Pastoral Needlework Scene

Date: 1800
Description: Needlework scene on silk worked in colored silk thread using running and crewel stitches. The hands and faces of the figures are watercolor on paper. Sce...
Photograph

Mendota Yacht Club Moonlight Regatta

Date: 07 08 1952
Description: Two couples use a sailboat near the Edgewater Hotel pier during the Mendota Yacht Club moonlight regatta and picnic supper. They are Edmund and Marianne Ho...
Print

Red Star Line Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Louis Auer & Son, Milwaukee passenger agents for the Red Star Line, with a bearded man in a cap and uniform steering a ship's wheel. The name...
Book or Pamphlet

H.M.S. Terror

Date: 1838
Description: Position of H.M.S. Terror on the 22nd of February, 1837. The sailing ship was immobilized in the sea ice near Southampton Island, at the entrance to...
Print

Red Star Line Luncheon Menu

Date: 09 18 1908
Description: Luncheon menu from the S.S. Marquette, with a framed illustration of a white-bearded man in profile holding a pipe and turning away to look at a sai...
Print

Souvenir Menu for Dinner for Kletzsch, Ott, and Kremer

Date: 10 08 1914
Description: First and last pages of the souvenir menu for a dinner by Mr. Edward A. Uhrig to Mr. Alvin P. Kletzsch, Mr. Emil H. Ott, and Mr. Waldemar Kremer at Republi...
Print

Red Star Line Dinner Menu

Date: 09 17 1908
Description: Dinner menu for the S.S. Marquette, with people in a rowboat near a larger ship, with windmills in the distance on shore. The image is signed "Heuss...
Postcard

Government Dam and Bridge

Date: 1910
Description: View across river, with a man standing on the bridge on the right, looking at the government dam on the left. There is a sailing ship with three masts dock...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1986
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Capital Times on May 3, 1986 with Sid's caption: "Before fish, all men are created equal. Fish,...

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