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Indian Duck Hunting

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Description: Watercolor of Canadian Prairie Indian at lake's shore with gun in hand and a recently hunted duck on the ground. A dog is at his feet. On the far shoreline...
Photograph

Club Chanticleer

Date: 05 29 1935
Description: Club Chanticleer, exterior view across road from the south, with a Heileman's Old Style Lager beer sign suspended from posts on the lawn in front. The sign...
Photograph

Woman Washes Clothes with Power Washer

Date: 05 16 1928
Description: Woman washing clothes with a washing machine powered by a a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 HP engine.
Postcard

Soldiers' Monument

Date: 1935
Description: View looking up street towards the Soldiers' Monument on the median. People are standing near a cannon in the median in the foreground. Caption reads: "Sol...
Photograph

Main Street View

Date: 1963
Description: View across main street of storefronts along the slope of a hill. At the top of the hill is a church with a steeple.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1935
Description: Exterior view of the Wisconsin State Capitol during a rain shower.
Photograph

Monument Square

Date: 1927
Description: View towards Monument Square on the right, with multiple vehicles parked along the street to the left.
Photograph

Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Group Posing Outdoors

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Description: A Ho-Chunk group dressed in regalia standing behind an elderly woman, sitting, and child who is standing. The man with the rifle has an appliqué blanket wr...
Photograph

Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man and Boy Outside Tent

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Description: Portrait of a Ho-Chunk man sitting cross-legged on the ground outside of a tent, holding a gun and wearing a vest and hat. A dog is on the ground near his ...
Photograph

Smithsonian Institute

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Description: A view of the Smithsonian Institute's 'Castle' building from a nearby lawn. The sprawling, crenelated, multi-part stone structure is bordered by some tree...
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City Park Plaza

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Description: An elevated view of a city park plaza featuring a fountain, stone walkways and stairs and a central domed stone building.
Photograph

New York Botanical Gardens

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Description: Fountain of Life in front of Mertz library at the New York Botanical Gardens.
Photograph

E.B. Trimpey Hunting

Date: 1913
Description: Ephraim Burt Trimpey poses while hunting, holding a shotgun. He wears a hunting jacket and cap, corduroy pants and high boots. He also sports a vest with...
Photograph

Workers' Unity House

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Description: View down driveway toward the house. The dirt path diverges on both sides of the house, leaving a grassy area that includes flowers, a fountain, trees, and...
Photograph

A Girl at United Nations Plaza

Date: 1968
Description: A girl stands on at the top of some stairs in United Nations Plaza and looks down onto the paved and fenced park. The decorative metal fencing makes geome...
Photograph

Tift Hall at Bessie Tift College

Date: 1920
Description: View from the porch of Upshaw Hall toward Tift Hall, completed in 1904. The buildings were erected on the campus of Bessie Tift College, founded in 1849.
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Bessie Tift College

Date: 1925
Description: A view of the campus green space at Bessie Tift College, with buildings in the background. The outdoor space includes trees, shrubs and lamp posts.
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Montauk Manor

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Description: Guests walk toward the entrance of Montauk Manner and automobiles are parked in front of the building. The English Tudor-style hotel opened in 1927.
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Freshwater Swimming Pool at Playland

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Description: View of an outdoor freshwater swimming pool, which opened in 1928. Two people lean over the fence to look into the pool and, behind them, a building with ...
Photograph

Pearl Street Looking North

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Description: View of Pearl Street, looking north from the library. A lamppost marks the street corner on the right and an automobile drives toward the intersection in t...

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