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William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt

Date: 1899
Description: Campaign poster with the title "Posterity" for Theodore Roosevelt and William McKinley featuring their portraits. In the center is an illustration of a wom...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Front cover of a Canadian advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of harvesting machines, tillage and seeding implements. Features a...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Appleton

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye view of Appleton.
Painting

A Sunday on the High Seas during my Crossing to America

Date: 1856
Description: The main deck of The Tuisco, showing groups of immigrant men, women, and a child in brightly colored clothing, conversing while standing below a ful...
Photograph

First Honors — Fall Festival

Date: 1927
Description: Sons of Norway group in traditional Norwegian costume standing on a replica of a viking ship as part of the Fall Festival. A large American flag flies from...
Photograph

Leaving Chicago & "Going over to Michigan"

Date: 1919
Description: Florence (Bis) Lloyd Jones on a ship, possibly the City of St. Joseph, on Lake Michigan when the Richard Lloyd Jones family was moving from Madison ...
Photograph

Susanne Hafner Goldfarb on Deck of S.S. Conte Bianco Mano

Date: 01 1939
Description: Holocaust survivor Susanne Hafner Goldfarb as a young girl, on deck of the S.S. Conte Bianco Mano, en route to Shanghai.
Photograph

Susanne Hafner Goldfarb on Deck of S.S. Castel Bianco

Date: 1949
Description: Susanne Hafner Goldfarb on deck of S.S. Castel Bianco en route to Israel.
Poster

Chicago and North Western Railway System Anniversary Travel Poster

Date: 1948
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the Chicago and North Western Railway's 100th Anniversary from 1848 to 1948. The poster features the artist Paul...
Photograph

Family on the Dock

Date: 1908
Description: The photographer's family poses on the dock beside the ship "Sailor Boy" of Sturgeon Bay. Clothilde Hotz holds the hand of Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy); daught...
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Milwaukee River, at Milwaukee

Date: 
Description: Engraved view of the Milwaukee River.
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Norddeutscher Lloyd Supper Menu

Date: 03 21 1901
Description: Supper menu from the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company, Bremen, with an illustration of people on the top d...
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Norddeutscher Lloyd Lunch Menu

Date: 03 23 1901
Description: Luncheon menu from the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company, Bremen, with a three-quarter illustration of peop...
Photograph

Disembarking at Archangel

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view looking down gutter of roof towards the British volunteer forces parading in Archangel [Archangelsk], Russia right before they disembarked fr...
Print

Menu for Farewell Dinner on Board R.M.S. Volendam

Date: 01 22 1939
Description: Exterior and page from the interior of the menu for the farewell dinner aboard the R.M.S. Volendam, with party streamers and dinner guests in formal...
Map or Atlas

Bird's Eye View of Appleton Wisconsin

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye view map of Appleton, Wisconsin. Map reads: "NOTE.-Since the above cut was engraved, the Fox River Pulp & Paper Co.'s Mammoth Mills have been er...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 334-342

Date: 
Description: Star of our Jesus, so extra bright
Make me a country child just for tonight

Bur Grinnerung an die
Jubiläumsfeier der Freien Gemeinde von Sauf ...
Print

Red Star Line Luncheon Menu

Date: 09 20 1908
Description: Luncheon menu from the S.S. Marquette, with women and a man in traditional Dutch clothing, standing or sitting on shore and looking out at a ship. ...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Calendar — October and November

Date: 1893
Description: 1893 calendar with the months of October and November. Features an illustration of a woman sitting at a desk using a telegraph key, near the words: "The Ca...
Photograph

Crossing the Atlantic

Date: 1906
Description: Group of men and woman on the deck of a steamship crossing the Atlantic. Dr. Joseph Smith is seated second from the right and Mary E. Smith is seated thir...

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