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Family Portrait

Date: 1895
Description: A family group of 19 people pose in front of their house. The photographer's umbrella can be seen at the top of the frame.
Photograph

Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 07 01 1957
Description: Chester L. "Grandpa" Gill cooking for his family at a backyard cookout two months after surgery that required several blood transfusions. Several members o...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Play School

Date: 1932
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House with images from the Play School: a group of children posing outdoors with buckets and a parasol, director...
Drawing

Republican National Convention

Date: 06 1880
Description: Illustration of the Interstate Exposition Building,the site of the Republican National Convention.
Photograph

Group on Europe Bay Beach

Date: 1915
Description: A group of children and adults enjoy a sunny day at the beach. Those identified include Mrs. Ferdinand (Clothilde Schmidt) Hotz, on left with hat and light...
Print

Taking a Header

Date: 12 20 1879
Description: Engraved image of a man falling off of a high-wheel bicycle. Two people in the background are watching the accident.
Photograph

Women Picking Vegetables

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Description: A woman on the left is standing holding an umbrella looking down at a woman who is bending over picking vegetables. In the background on the right is a hou...
Photograph

Group of People Outdoors

Date: 1966
Description: A large group of people gathered outdoors on a lawn at a primary election for the LCFO (Lowndes County Freedom Organization). There are buildings in the ba...
Photograph

Country Club Women Leaders

Date: 06 17 1958
Description: Portrait of Elsa Johnson on the Maple Bluff Country Club porch overlooking the swimming pool. All activities of the Maple Bluff Country Club Women's Group ...
Photograph

Visitors at Camp Douglas

Date: 1887
Description: A group of visitors to Camp Douglas are gathered at the edge of an open field, perhaps observing military exercises. Several carry umbrellas.
Print

Southern Flowers Face Powder Advertisement

Date: 1924
Description: An illustrated advertisement for Southern Flowers face powder, "the unusual new face powder of the Southland". there is a sticker in the upper right corner...
Photograph

Girl with Colt and Puppies

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Description: View across yard toward a girl in frilly white dress posing in bright sunlight with her arm raised holding the bridle of a colt, standing near a barn. On t...
Photograph

Group Picnic

Date: 
Description: View across lawn towards the end of a table where a group of people are posing sitting for a picnic under the shade of trees. More men and women are standi...
Photograph

Group Picnic

Date: 
Description: View across the grass towards a group of women sitting and standing near a long table for a picnic. A group of men are gathered under a tree on the left. P...
Photograph

Ringling Brothers Elephants

Date: 08 17 1892
Description: Elevated view of large crowd of people watching elephants from the Ringling Brothers Circus turning the corner of First and Main Streets.
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...
Postcard

Ringling Brothers Circus Parade

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Description: Photographic postcard of an elevated view of the Circus Parade on a rainy day. Crowds of people line the street, and many are holding umbrellas.
Postcard

Wreck of No. 33 on May 28, 1913

Date: 1913
Description: Photographic postcard view of the aftermath of a train wreck. Survivors and onlookers are gathered on and around the railroad tracks. Caption reads: "Wreck...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 187-191

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Description: First-rate minds to write books, guide the young and lead the nation
but the target runs close to the ground
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 400-412

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Description: We were promised, we were told
that candy came in stripes and boxes

But some was stacked,
like lost rewards, the chocolate-coated paradoxes

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