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Photograph

Gaylord Nelson Signing Autographs

Date: 1974
Description: Senator Gaylord Nelson signs an autograph for an admiring voter at an agricultural conference.
Postcard

Plankinton House

Date: 1910
Description: Postcard with engraving of the hotel in the upper left corner with a caption below that reads: "American and European Plan." Text at right reads: "If not c...
Photograph

Woman Writing at Desk

Date: 05 03 1944
Description: Woman sitting at a writing desk at Estella's. She is facing a bright window which has a window seat.
Document

Pritzlaff Hardware Letterhead

Date: 1900
Description: Invoice of the John Pritzlaff Hardware Company of Milwaukee with an engraved illustration of the company warehouse.
Document

Milwaukee City Hall Letterhead

Date: 1900
Description: Letterhead stationery of David S. Rose, the mayor of Milwaukee, showing an engraving of Milwaukee City Hall.
Photograph

Blue Angel Drill Team

Date: 1970
Description: "The famous Blue Angel Drill Team visits Milwaukee."
Map or Atlas

Map Showing Boundaries of Original Purchases (1835) Forming Nucleus of Present-Day Milwaukee

Date: 1948
Description: This map is ink on tracing paper and shows acreages, wards, streets, rivers, and Lake Michigan. Also included are editorial notes in pencil.
Photograph

Dorothy H. Wright

Date: 11 11 1920
Description: Portrait of Dorothy H. Wright sitting at a desk, holding a pen. On the back of the image she has written: "To A.W. Lawson from Dorothy H. Wright, Nov. 11 -...
Photograph

First Day of School

Date: 08 27 1989
Description: A man is sitting on his sofa, watching his son write a card. Caption reads: "Joe Gofoe said he and his son Elton, 5, were 'big boys' and could handle the f...
Photograph

Adam Davis

Date: 06 28 1967
Description: View across desk towards a man talking on a telephone and writing in a notebook. Caption reads: "Adam Davis, who is an insurance salesman, represents the g...

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