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| Date: | 12 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Charles H. Cashin (right) of Stevens Point being sworn in by Clerk of Court Herbert C. Hale as the U.S. Attorney for the Western Wisconsin District. |
| Date: | 07 17 1881 |
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| Description: | First page of a letter written by Walt Whitman regarding the publication of a book he was writing. |
| Date: | 07 17 1881 |
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| Description: | The second page of a letter written by Walt Whitman regarding publishing a book he was writing. |
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| Description: | Humorous photograph of Koplin, Bloch, and Gauer dressed as college boys wearing letter sweaters that spell out SOL, for shit-outta-luck. Gauer states they ... |
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| Description: | August Derleth posed with part of his comic collection. The image is from a tinted photograph by Carmie Thompson. |
| Date: | 03 02 2001 |
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| Description: | "Eve, is our waitress at Jeff's on Rugby in Oshkosh." Note the book at the head of the table. It is volume C of the fish fry collection. |
| Date: | 03 14 2008 |
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| Description: | "Nick was our waiter at the American Legion in Horicon." From left to right; Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, Carl Bernhard, Nick, and Shirley Widmer. An album of th... |
| Date: | 12 30 1953 |
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| Description: | Helen Jansky, head of the circulation department at the Madison Free Library, displays a few of the books used to help library patrons use their Christmas ... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Bookshelves in a law office, with a deer trophy mounted on the wall above. Below the shelves are chairs and a calendar for November 1901. |
| Date: | 01 15 1980 |
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| Description: | "New Voters — It was "Swear In to Vote Day' at Pulaski High School. Students who have reached 18 were sworn in as voters during a ceremony at the school, a... |
| Date: | 09 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Three women are attending an autographing tea at Graham's Book and Stationary Store, 3238 University Avenue. They are, left to right: Helen Fairchild, Hele... |
| Date: | 09 27 1957 |
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| Description: | Robert Gard, University of Wisconsin speech professor, is standing beside Elizabeth Bardwell and Harriet Bunn at an autographing tea at Graham's Book and S... |
| Date: | 09 21 1957 |
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| Description: | William F. Steuber Jr. autographs a copy of his book, "The Landlooker," for Mrs. Robert Cromey at an autographing tea at Graham's Book and Stationary Store... |
| Date: | 09 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Tere Rios (Mrs. H.J. Versace), left, chatting with the store proprietor who holds a copy of her book "An Angel Grows Up." They are at an autographing tea a... |
| Date: | 11 29 1944 |
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| Description: | Back and front covers and inside menu listing, of a die cut three-quarter view of a cloth-bound book with an inset title plate, and a guest list with a few... |
| Date: | 05 13 1950 |
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| Description: | Menu, mounted on board, for the sixty-fifth birthday dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by Jim (James Thomas) Berryman of Father Time carrying a s... |
| Date: | 05 02 1902 |
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| Description: | Front cover and first two pages of the menu and program for a dinner honoring newspaperman Opie Read. There is a tipped-in drawing of Read on the cover, dr... |
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| Description: | Newton Minow is sworn in as Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman. He has his right hand raised and the left hand on a bible as he takes the oat... |
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| Description: | View from sidewalk of Sid sitting in jail with a cigar in his mouth while reading a Gideon Bible. Sid is looking out of the iron gate of a stone building, ... |
| Date: | 06 13 1975 |
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| Description: | A man is looking at a copy of E.E. LeMasters' book, Blue-Collar Aristocrats, at a book signing party at the Club Tavern. The author is holding the b... |
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