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Manuscript

339th Regimental Combat Team New Year's Day Menu

Date: 01 01 1919
Description: Front and back sides of a one-page menu in the "Officers Mess" with an illustration of two soldiers in profile marching along a road towards a castle on th...
Manuscript

Cannon Company - 339th Infantry Thanksgiving Menu

Date: 11 23 1944
Description: Front cover and menu page of the Thanksgiving Day menu of the 339th Infantry, which served in Italy during World War II. On the front cover is an illustrat...
Photograph

Veterans Parade through the "Welcome Home" Arch

Date: 05 20 1919
Description: Elevated view of a crowd lining the street near the "Welcome Home" Arch anticipating a parade of returning veterans. The facades of the buildings are decor...
Photograph

James W. Gorum

Date: 
Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of James W. Gorum in front of a painted backdrop. Seated three-quarter figure with beard and mustache, facing front with elbo...
Photograph

Granville Johnson

Date: 
Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Granville Johnson, who fought and died in the Civil War. Waist-up portrait facing forward.
Photograph

Jacob Witting, Jr.

Date: 1885
Description: Jacob Witting, Jr., was born January 15, 1837 in Renhoff, Prussia. He was a soldier in the Iron Brigade during the Civil War. Jacob is posing standing with...
Poster

The Disabled Man Can Win

Date: 1918
Description: A man in a military uniform is covering his mouth with one hand and holding a crutch with the other. Poster text reads: "The disabled man can win. Your loc...
Photograph

Two Men Standing with Cannon

Date: 08 1900
Description: Handwritten text on back reads: "Mr. Prescott and Mr. Damon at Old Soldier's Home, Madison, Wisc." The building behind the men appears to actually be the t...
Photograph

Lucy Rumsey Holt Driving a Car

Date: 1910
Description: Lucy Rumsey Holt driving a car. Her father Captain I.P. Rumsey, a Civil War veteran, is sitting on the passenger side. Men are standing in front of the Hol...
Photograph

Ralph Abernathy

Date: 
Description: Three-quarter profile portrait of World War II veteran, Baptist minister, and civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy, the 2nd President of the Southern Chri...
Photograph

James Abourezk

Date: 
Description: Close-up photograph of James George Abourezk, a Korean War veteran and Democratic politician from South Dakota. Abourezk was a member of the US House of Re...
Photograph

Harvey R. Abraham

Date: 
Description: Portrait of Harvey R. Abraham, World War I veteran and Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the Winnebago County district, 1947-1960.
Photograph

Robert J. Matheson and Harvey R. Abraham Fishing

Date: 1953
Description: Group portrait of Republican State Assembly members Bob Matheson and Harvey Abraham (with a third, unidentified person) standing on a dock. Abraham is hold...
Photograph

Goose Hunting at Horseshoe Lake

Date: 12 1957
Description: Harvey R. Abraham, a State Assembly Republican. He is seated at a table with a younger man, identified as "Ted [or Jed] Sanborn, Minneapolis, Minn." Captio...
Photograph

Harvey Abraham and George Talsky

Date: 
Description: Two men are seated together. The man on the left is George J. Talsky, a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, 1957-1960. The man on the right ...
Photograph

Harvey Abraham, Gilbert Hipke, and Everett Bidwell

Date: 05 1959
Description: Three men pose together around a wood desk. They are identified as (from left): Harvey Abraham, Gil Hipke, and [Everett] Cy Bidwell. All three were Republi...
Photograph

Governor Walter Kohler and Oshkosh Delegates

Date: 
Description: Four men stand together, looking at a booklet entitled "Oshkosh: Wisconsin's City of Opportunity." They are (from left): Governor Walter Kohler, Connie Car...
Photograph

Governor Vernon W. Thompson Signing Assembly Bill 26-A

Date: 04 02 1957
Description: Three men are seated, and four are standing. Governor Vernon Thompson is signing Assembly Bill 26-A. Those present are: (Seated, left to right) Vernon W. T...
Photograph

Gordon Allott

Date: 09 1966
Description: Quarter-length portrait of George Allott a Republican politician from Colorado. Allott served in World War II as a major in the US Army Air Forces. He was ...
Photograph

Leonard Allen

Date: 1962
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Leonard Allen, who was NBC's Washington bureau director of the news operation from 1963-1973. He had a decades-long career in ne...

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