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The Union House Tavern

Date: 1900
Description: The Union House Tavern, known as Schulkamp's Corner Saloon, 2601 East Washington Avenue at Milwaukee Street. A group of men are standing on the porch holdi...
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Farmers Hauling Goods in Columbus Wagon

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Description: Two farmers standing in the bed of a wooden Columbus wagon loaded with groceries and other goods. The original caption reads: "One of the reasons why Alaba...
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Hayride

Date: 1930
Description: View of a hayride on the lawn outside a residential-type building. A group of girls stand in a wagon driven by two horses. Banners line the side of the wag...
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People Posing Around Farm Machinery

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Description: People posing in field, with a barn in the background among trees. In the center a man, three women and a boy are standing in front of a wire fence. Behind...
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Men and Wagon

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Description: Group of people posing with a wagon from which several dead prairie-chickens are hanging. One man is sitting in the wagon with a dog. Seven men are standin...
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Alfred Hitchcock and Joel McCrea

Date: 1940
Description: Alfred Hitchcock and Joel McCrea stand on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent" with an unidentified woman wearing a rain poncho. Hitchcock and the w...
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Gridiron Club Spring Dinner Menu

Date: 05 21 1949
Description: Menu, mounted on board, for the spring dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by (Clifford K.?) Berryman of "Dr. Truman's Utopia Elixir: Relief for Ev...
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Winneconne Volunteer Fire Department

Date: 1910
Description: Group portrait of men and boys posing on and around a fire wagon, with a large hose attached to the front. The back of the photograph identifies the man wi...
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Freight Yard

Date: 1910
Description: Men posing in the Winneconne Freight Yard. Some of the men stand and sit on two hay wagons, and three men stand on the ground, in front of a box car. Some ...
Book or Pamphlet

Cleaning Fish

Date: 1900
Description: Herman Riebe, Alexander Krueger, and an unidentified man are kneeling next to a pile of fish they are cleaning. All the men are holding several of the fish...
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Sunday Ride

Date: 1908
Description: Members of the Krueger family, including Edgar, Florentina, Jennie, and Sarah, sitting together in a lumber wagon on a Sunday ride. A two-horse team is pul...
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Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Speaking from Wagon

Date: 1897
Description: Robert M. La Follette, Sr., with his arms spread wide, speaking from the back of a wagon. It was in part due to his vigorous speaking style that La Follett...
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Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Speaking from Wagon

Date: 1897
Description: Robert M. La Follette, Sr., with his fist in the air, speaking from the back of a wagon. He is wearing a hat and a suit without the coat. It was in part du...
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Exterior of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. Dealership

Date: 1900
Description: View across street towards men standing in front of the dealership. Two men wearing suits stand on the sidewalk near an entrance on the left. Two man weari...
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Conrad F. Kreuz and Curtis Shoes

Date: 1888
Description: View of three men standing together on the board sidewalk outside Kreuz and Curtis Shoes, 21 S. Pinckney Street. The men are wearing suits, ties and hats, ...
Print

Place Card

Date: 1944
Description: Printed place card created for the fiftieth wedding anniversary celebration of Clara Seipp and Henry Bartholomay Jr. which features head and shoulders phot...
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Man Using Horse-Powered Hay Stacker

Date: 04 27 1905
Description: View of a man, wearing a hat and a shirt with a necktie, using a horse-powered hay stacker. In the background on the right a group of men are standing near...
Postcard

Montello Granite Works

Date: 1906
Description: Charles Richter, second from left, poses in front of a building at the top of the Montello granite quarry. His wife stands at the front of the group, weari...
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Judging Horses

Date: 1925
Description: View across unpaved road towards a Native American man wearing a plaid overcoat with two work horses. A crowd of men are watching from the elevated wooden ...
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Learning to Select Good Horses

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of a Native American man holding the lead of a horse as it is evaluated by another man, possibly Joseph Wojta, who is wearing a hat and long ...

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