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| Description: | Five lumberjacks, one of whom is playing the fiddle, pose by a docked riverboat with a rowboat nearby. |
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| Description: | Colorized view depicting the Wisconsin Central Railroad bridge at Stevens Point, with several men standing on top of the bridge painting the structure. Cap... |
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| Description: | Frank O. King paints his character "Uncle Walt" onto a rowboat. The boy in the background on a pier is King's grand-nephew David Witt Nye. |
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| Description: | Fredric March (seated) with Florence Eldridge (Mrs. March) and the noted news analyst Cecil Brown. |
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| Description: | View of a stone fountain with a light fixture, presumably for horses, on a curb in front of a "Clerk's Office" and a "Dentist." A horse's head is carved in... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the West Side Fuel Company of Port Washington, Wisconsin, with cartoon-style drawings, printed in black ink, of workers mining coal with a pi... |
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| Description: | Luncheon menu from the Rigadoon Room in the Edgewater Hotel, with a gargoyle figure against a background of tied-back drapery, and spot illustrations of th... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Front and back of one-page menu from the Scandia Restaurant, with a whimsical cartoon map rendering by Hakon Mielche of the Scandinavian countries and the ... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a barge with four men standing on the deck. The ferry is carrying a large load. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Front page of booklet with an engraving of a man with a team of two horses in a field with the "Celebrated Gorham Sulky Cultivator." |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle taking photographs on the beach in Milwaukee during Operation Inland Seas. A Navy ship is on Lake Michigan in the background on the left. A... |
| Date: | 08 1925 |
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| Description: | A photographer is crouching on a wooden pier behind a small camera on a tripod to film C.B. (Chandler Burnell) Chapman, a realtor and good friend of Stanle... |
| Date: | 2012 |
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| Description: | This map includes a descriptive index of galleries and studios with color illustrations, on both sides. |
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