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In the Emigrant Train

Date: 01 1874
Description: Interior of a coach on an emigration train to the west.
Poster

Pennsylvania Railroad Travel Poster: Building The First White House

Date: 1932
Description: An original lithograph promoting Washington, D.C., and the Pennsylvania Railroad through artist N.C. Wyeth's depiction of the 1798 construction of the firs...
Poster

Pacific Railway Pullman's Palace Dining Car Poster

Date: 1900
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the Pacific Railway's route from New York to California, encouraging people to "Go and See the Great American Pa...
Poster

Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway Poster

Date: 09 1882
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway, also "Known as The Royal Route." The poster features the...
Photograph

Polio Victims

Date: 08 02 1951
Description: Bonnie Wainscott (left), age 16, and her mother Mrs. Grace Wainscott are greeted by Francis M. Higgins, President of Wisconsin Central Airlines. The Wainsc...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Journal Editor Leaving for World Tour

Date: 01 15 1952
Description: Roy L. Matson, editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, boarding a plane to start a 25,000-mile air tour of Europe and the Near East under the sponsorship of...
Photograph

Danny Kaye

Date: 1960
Description: During a visit to Japan, Danny Kaye, then one of the best known comedians and actors, prompted a typical response from Martha Brown, the wife of Cecil Brow...
Photograph

Anna Mae Davis

Date: 1932
Description: Anna Mae Davis, a Madison attorney, economist, and perennial candidate for attorney general on the Wisconsin Socialist Party ticket. This portrait is from ...
Photograph

Arrival at Barbados Airport

Date: 1969
Description: Three travelers stand at the pickup location for gate 4 at the Barbados Airport. On the back of the photograph they are identified as "Jim Hoge (editor of ...
Photograph

Workers Arranging Trays of Food

Date: 1970
Description: Two male food service employees preparing trays of food laid out on a table for a Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 in-flight meal. A woman is standing...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 750-757

Date: 
Description: Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell
Photograph

We Saw You Being Good Neighbors

Date: 07 28 1960
Description: Joseph E. O'Brien (center) and his daughter, Mary Beth, 8, are shown at their Shorewood Hills home visiting with South American labor union leaders. Carlos...
Photograph

We Saw You Being Good Neighbors

Date: 07 28 1960
Description: Elizabeth O'Brien and her daughter, Lu Ann, 4, are shown in their Shorewood Hills home extending hospitality to visiting labor union leaders Juan Duran Mar...
Photograph

Brooks McCormick

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Description: Brooks McCormick, on the far right, walking with a group of men near a building with a sign that reads, in part: "Przemysl Motoryzacyun." A man walking in ...
Photograph

Hamilton Metalplane H-21

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Description: Three-quarter view of a Hamilton Metalplane H-21 sitting on a runway. The airplane was equipped with a 400 hp Pratt & Whitney engine. The tail identifier r...
Photograph

Newspaper Carriers Leave for Washington D.C.

Date: 08 16 1954
Description: Madison Newspapers Inc. newsboy John Pertzborn gives his mother, Margaret Pertzborn, a goodbye hug before boarding the train for a week in the nation's cap...
Photograph

Esther Van Wagoner Tufty Leaving La Guardia Field

Date: 1948
Description: Typed note with photograph reads: "Pan American World Airways Photo, To Write on Tension in Germany, Miss Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, Washington newspaper co...
Photograph

Esther Van Wagoner Tufty in Hawaii

Date: 1952
Description: Typewritten note on Royal Hawaiian stationery reads: "Royal Hawaiian, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, Washington D.C. war correspondent ...

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