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Edward Alexander and Benton Wilcox

Date: 
Description: Portrait of Edward Alexander, director of the Wisconsin Historical Society, holding a reel of microfilm, and Benton Wilcox, librarian of the Wisconsin Hist...
Photograph

Archives Display Area

Date: 08 1977
Description: International Harvester archives display area.
Photograph

Archives Display Area

Date: 08 1977
Description: International Harvester archives display area.
Photograph

Visitors in the Pioneer Gallery

Date: 1957
Description: Two children are standing and looking at an exhibit that features tools, a map, and some text. Caption reads: "Visitors in the pioneer gallery of the State...
Photograph

Walter Dunn and Others Inside Historymobile

Date: 
Description: Two men wearing suits are standing in the foreground, with the man on the right holding a pipe in his hand. Behind them is a man standing and operating a W...
Photograph

Clifford Lord with McCormick Collection Records

Date: 1952
Description: State Historical Society of Wisconsin Director, Clifford Lord, posing with a volume from the McCormick collection shelved on the right.
Manuscript

Gettysburg Casualty Tabulation

Date: 1863
Description: A Gettysburg battle casualty tabulation in Rufus Dawes' diary noting how many people were killed, wounded, and missing.
Book or Pamphlet

Rufus Dawes Diary Entry

Date: 07 01 1863
Description: A two page diary entry written at the Gettysburg battlefield by Rufus R. Dawes.
Manuscript

Van Ness Geneaology Chart

Date: 1905
Description: A handwritten chart documenting the family line of the Van Ness family of Holland and New York state.
Photograph

Guffawmeter

Date: 1958
Description: A man wearing headphones is sitting behind a table with the Guffawmeter. The caption reads: "Guffawmeter constructed by Paul Vanderbilt for the State Histo...
Book or Pamphlet

Pages of Goddard's Journal

Date: 1881
Description: Pages 54 and 55 of the diary kept by John H. Goddard on a timber cruising trip.
Book or Pamphlet

Scrapbook Cover

Date: 1950
Description: Two pandas "scrap" on the embossed leather cover of a scrapbook bearing the title "Snaps and Scraps." Metallic gold highlights the embossed areas. The scra...
Book or Pamphlet

Scrapbook Cover

Date: 1933
Description: Embossed image of the Hall of Science at the Century of Progress International Exposition (the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair) decorates the leather cover of...
Manuscript

Attorney General Letter to Les Fishel

Date: 05 13 1966
Description: Letter from Wisconsin Attorney General Bronson La Follette to State Historical Society of Wisconsin Director Les Fishel, regarding the state's liability in...
Manuscript

Gabriner Letter to Russell Gilmore (Continued)

Date: 08 19 1966
Description: Final page of a letter from Robert and Vicki Gabriner to Russell Gilmore at the Wisconsin Historical Society describing their experiences collecting civil ...
Manuscript

Gabriner Letter to Russell Gilmore

Date: 08 19 1966
Description: First page of a letter from Robert and Vicki Gabriner to Russell Gilmore at the Wisconsin Historical Society describing their experiences collecting civil ...
Photograph

WHA-TV Program

Date: 
Description: Doris Platt (standing) and three other people, possibly discussing the script of a program on WHA-TV. Artifacts line shelves behind the people in a country...
Photograph

Cliff Lord with the Cudahy Papers

Date: 05 1953
Description: Dr. Clifford L. Lord posed standing examining large bound volumes from the Cudahy papers in the collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Photograph

Paul Vanderbilt

Date: 04 1956
Description: Paul Vanderbilt, Curator of the Iconographic Collections (1954-1972), State Historical Society of Wisconsin, examining photographs received from the Mil...
Photograph

Paul Vanderbilt

Date: 10 01 1958
Description: Text with the photograph reads: "Paul Vanderbilt, curator of the photographic collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, at the opening of t...

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