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Carl Stargardt Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Carl Stargardt, bridge contractor in Athens, Wisconsin, with two-color illustrations in brown and green inks of an automobile heading toward ...
Print

Johnson Fish Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Johnson Fish Company of Green Bay, Wisconsin, wholesalers of "fresh. salt. & smoked fish, oysters and live crawfish," with a fish being pul...
Historical Object

McCormick Woodcut

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Description: Original woodcut created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. It has three sections and is connected using wood splines. An ...
Historical Object

McCormick Electrotype

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Description: Electrotype created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. A woodcut was created first, the electrotype next, then the letterp...
Print

McCormick Letterpress Print of Wire Binder

Date: 1877
Description: Letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder (wire binder). The grain binder is operated by a man seated on the machine and pulled by two hor...
Photograph

Men Posed On Logs

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Description: Elevated view of a group of men posed standing and holding logs in a river with pike hooks. There appears to be a dog on the right of the group standing on...
Photograph

Sorting Logs

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Description: View from shoreline of two men posed standing on log sorting piers half a mile above the Railroad Bridge on the Black River. There is a large log jam behin...
Photograph

Sorting Logs

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Description: Loggers near a log jam under a railroad bridge.
Photograph

Logging Clean-Up Crew

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Description: Group of men and a boy posed holding logging tools and standing in front of tents on the banks of a river, probably just south of Black River Falls. A man ...
Photograph

Construction of Bridge

Date: 1912
Description: Elevated view of a construction site of a bridge across the cutoff on the river.
Photograph

In and About the Dells of the Wisconsin River — On the Way to Stand Rock #90

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Description: Stereograph of Bennett's crew hauling a portable darkroom through a pond of water. They are on their way to Stand Rock. Text at right: "Wanderings Among th...
Photograph

H.H. Bennett with Camera near Steamboat Rock

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Description: Stereograph of H.H. Bennett manning his camera on shore near Steamboat Rock. A woman is in a canoe near the shoreline, and a man is reading a book on the f...
Photograph

John Daley Sitting on Ladder under Lantern

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Description: A river navigation light on the Mississippi River. People were paid to keep them lit so the steam boats could operate at night. Bearded man sitting at bas...
Photograph

Dam Construction

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Description: View from railroad tracks towards industrial activity on the edge of the river, possibly building a dam.
Photograph

Dam Construction

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Description: Men working on the foundation of a building, possibly laying a foundation for the post-flood business district dam.
Painting

State Fair Centennial Mural Study Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ...
Photograph

Constructing Brush Dam on Mississippi River

Date: 1900
Description: View across water of men working to construct a brush dam about seven miles north of Cassville. There are two groups of well-dressed people, who appear to ...
Photograph

Blackhawk Country Club Western Party

Date: 07 20 1957
Description: Quartet of singing cowboys at Blackhawk Country Club Western Ranch Party. Left to right: Dr. George Oosterhous, Dr. George Benson, Robert Lievan, John Ko...
Book or Pamphlet

Best Tractors for Loggers

Date: 1925
Description: Interior page of a pamphlet advertising the Best tractor for loggers. The text reads: "It is in getting the logs from the woods to the pond or mill that gr...
Photograph

Lieutenant Colonel Philip F. La Follette and War Correspondent

Date: 12 18 1943
Description: War Correspondent Robert Doyle and Lieutenant Colonel Philip F. La Follette, wearing combat uniform, chat while standing on a shoreline. Lieutenant Colonel...

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