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Poster

Lily Cream Separators Advertising Poster

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for Lily brand cream separators featuring a color illustration of a woman operating a hand crank cream separator. Below is a scene of co...
Photograph

Farm near Stream

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Description: View from hill over a valley dotted with farmsteads and a meandering stream in the foreground. A group of three or four people are posing at the opposite s...
Poster

Bluebell Cream Harvester Calendar

Date: 1913
Description: Calendar advertising International Harvester's Bluebell brand Cream Harvester (more commonly called a cream separator). Features a large illustration of tw...
Photograph

Women at Minnehaha Falls

Date: 1900
Description: Group of three women, including Ada Bass, at the base of Minnehaha Falls. Minnehaha Creek in foreground.
Photograph

Woman on Footbridge at Minnehaha Falls

Date: 1900
Description: Unidentified woman standing on the footbridge at the base of Minnehaha Falls. Minnehaha Creek in foreground.
Photograph

Three Girls Sitting in a Stream

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Description: Three small girls wearing dresses sit in a stream near a shoreline.
Photograph

Men and Woman on Bridge

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Description: Two men fish from an earthen bridge while a woman stands holding a fish. There is a house or barn in the background.
Photograph

Women Dancing in Field

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Description: Two women dance barefoot in tall grass while another woman sits on the ground and tends to her feet, probably Mrs. J.J. McGillivray.
Photograph

Hattie Taylor and Daughter Tannisse

Date: 1912
Description: Hattie Taylor and daughter Tannisse walk under a Milwaukee park culvert.
Photograph

Falls at Parfrey's Glen

Date: 1910
Description: Two girls stand in the foreground, and a man and woman sit on a log over the stream in the background at the Parfrey's Glen waterfall near Devil's Lake.
Photograph

Below the Falls

Date: 1910
Description: Two women stand on a ledge at Skillet Falls.
Photograph

Skillet Falls in Winter

Date: 1909
Description: Elevated view of a woman holding a walking stick and wearing a hat and fur coat with a fur stole sitting on a ledge of ice at Skillet Falls. Bare trees fra...
Photograph

Two Women at Skillet Falls

Date: 1909
Description: Two well-dressed women stand at the foot of Skillet Falls. The trees in the background are bare; the hill behind is covered with tree stumps. The hill is...
Photograph

Skillet Falls in Winter

Date: 1909
Description: A well-dressed woman with a walking stick stands on ice at the partially frozen Skillet Falls. Bare trees frame the scene. There are patches of snow and tr...
Photograph

Parfrey's Glen

Date: 1909
Description: Two women pose behind a log which has fallen across the stream in Parfrey's Glen. One woman holds a small pail.
Photograph

Young Woman

Date: 1915
Description: A young woman sits on a log which lies over a stream bed in a wooded area.
Photograph

Crossing the Stream

Date: 1912
Description: A woman and small girl balance on a log crossing a small stream in a ravine. The trees and bushes are bare.
Photograph

Dam at Taliesin

Date: 1935
Description: Five women pose at the dam built by Frank Lloyd Wright at his home near Spring Green, Wisconsin. A sixth figure is obscured by tree branches on the right. ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 110-115

Date: 
Description: I'll show you all the imported graces
and you shall see New Fontainebleau
Photograph

Ballerinas in a Wooded Glen

Date: 1958
Description: Girls of a visiting ballet company, in costume, posed in a rocky wooded glen along a stream.

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