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Naval Students in Classroom

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Description: Naval students sit together at long tables and write messages while listening to earphones at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). In the background a m...
Photograph

Man and Woman at Desk

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Description: A man is reading at a desk, while a woman writes on a pad of paper seated nearby in an office at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
Photograph

Interview with a Star

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Description: Irene Norman, film editor of the "Milwaukee Sentinel," interviewing the film star Bebe Daniels.
Photograph

Lew Wallace Monument

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Description: Monument of Lew Wallace (1827-1905), Union general in the Civil War and author of 'Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.'
Photograph

Adlai Stevenson

Date: 10 08 1955
Description: Adlai Stevenson is seated in a room with several other men.
Print

Wisconsin Bank Note and Lithographing Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Wisconsin Bank Note and Lithographing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a child writing on a tablet and perching on a banner bearing ...
Manuscript

15th Wisconsin Infantry Regimental Flag

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Description: Drawing of older gentleman presenting the regimental flag of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry, presumably at a Grand Army of the Republic meeting. The image is ...
Photograph

The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword

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Description: Full-length portrait of a woman posing in a costume made out of newspapers from the "Minneapolis Journal." She is holding an oversized ink pen and has what...
Photograph

Article Featuring Richard Ely

Date: 02 1930
Description: An article titled "Institute for Research in Land Economics and Public Utilities to Establish Outpost in China" features Professor Richard Ely.
Photograph

Writers on Social Questions

Date: 12 1900
Description: A composite of photographs of "writers on social questions". Pictured are 1. Henry D. Lloyd 2. Richard T. Ely 3. Benjamin Kidd 4. Rev. George D. Herron 5. ...
Photograph

William Theodore Evjue

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Description: William Evjue with Girl Scouts.
Photograph

Frame 30: Man Learning to Read and Write

Date: 1964
Description: A man is seated at a desk, writing and smoking a cigarette.
Photograph

Frame 34: Woman Signing Up - Freedom Registration

Date: 1964
Description: A woman in the foreground writes on a pad while a young woman looks on from a doorway.
Photograph

Robert Doyle at His Typewriter

Date: 04 16 1945
Description: Robert Doyle (shirtles), works at the typewriter in his quarters in the BOQ (Bachelor Officer Quarters) #5, room 110, at CINCPAC (Commander in Chief, Pacif...
Photograph

Robert Doyle Reading

Date: 1944
Description: Robert Doyle as he reads and writes indoors. He is wearing a bracelet (perhaps an ID) on his right wrist, and is holding a cigarette. Another man sitting b...
Photograph

The History of Wisconsin Poster

Date: 1893
Description: John Fawcett Tyrrell, handwriting expert and documents examiner of Milwaukee, standing at left of an illuminated poster, ten feet high, entitled "The Histo...
Postcard

Baldwin High School

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Description: Photographic postcard view of the exterior of the high school. There is a cupola over the belfry and an arched doorway. Caption reads: "Baldwin, Wis. High ...
Postcard

2nd Ward Public School

Date: 1906
Description: Photographic postcard view of the exterior of the public school, a large brick building with a turret in the corner.
Postcard

County Jail

Date: 1906
Description: Photographic postcard view of the exterior of the County Jail surrounded by a lawn. A sidewalk leads to wide stone steps that rise up to an arched entrance...
Postcard

Catholic Church

Date: 1906
Description: Photographic postcard of an elevated view across street of the front of the Catholic Church, which is a large, stone building. There is a belfry on the lef...

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