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Kroger Grocery & Bakery Interior

Date: 11 25 1932
Description: Kroger Grocery & Bakery, 3 N. Pinckney Street, interior showing produce and bakery, alternate view.
Photograph

Gesell Children with Christmas Tree

Date: 1893
Description: Studio portrait of Gerhard Gesell's five children (l to r: Arnold, Bertha, Robert, Gerhard, and Wilma) posed around a Christmas tree with their gifts.
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Immigrants with Christmas Tree

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Description: A group of immigrants pose in front of a tall Christmas tree at Ellis Island.
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Strawberry Festival

Date: 1938
Description: Three men pose with boxes of Wisconsin strawberries at the Strawberry Festival. From left to right are Rex Eberdt, who is the manager of Warrens Fruit Grow...
Print

A Merry Christmas!

Date: 1880
Description: Holiday card with ribbons, flowers and fruit. On the ribbon are the words: "A Merry Christmas!" Chromolithograph.
Postcard

With Best Christmas Wishes

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard with Santa Claus, surrounded by pine boughs and candles, spilling toys and treats out of his sack. He is wearing a brown coat, mittens and...
Painting

Holiday Card of African American Children Eating Watermelon

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Description: Hand-painted holiday card of three African American children eating watermelon. One girl sits on the ground, a boy has a watermelon in his lap, and the sec...
Print

Valentine Greetings

Date: 1940
Description: Valentine's Day "secret pal" card with a peach on the front, and a cake and plum on the inside (all shown). The peach has long eyelashes, red lipstick and ...
Photograph

Little Girls Having a Tea Party

Date: 1900
Description: Margery Bish (left) and another little girl, unidentified, sit at a low outdoor table set with a tea service. There is a china doll propped under the table...
Photograph

Funeral, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Funeral services in the village of Vinh Quoi, Vietnam for casualties of a Viet Cong attack. Two of the deceased are covered with woven mats and lying on wh...
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Funeral, Binh Hung

Date: 06 1962
Description: Large funeral for multiple people in Binh Hung, Vietnam. Numerous decoratively painted coffins with cloth coverings are on display in a large open-air, roo...
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Loft Halloween Party

Date: 10 26 1954
Description: Carol Hanson bobbing for an apple as Donna Tupper laughingly looks on.
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Pullman Buffet Menu

Date: 1901
Description: Front cover and first page of a menu from a railroad dining car, with a woman in long robes carrying a tray with a steaming dish of food. A border of fruit...
Print

Hotel Badger Dinner Menu

Date: 10 29 1908
Description: Front cover and menu listing from the Hotel Badger, with an etching of a fox sitting on the ground looking up at a bunch of grapes hanging on a vine over a...
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Menu for Dinner in Honor of President-Elect Warren G. Harding

Date: 12 04 1920
Description: Menu for dinner honoring President-Elect Warren G. Harding by the citizens of Newport News, Virginia, at the Hotel Warwick. On the cover is a framed quarte...
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Palmer House Menu

Date: 10 02 1884
Description: Foldout menu with a central menu listing, with a banner at the top with hunting rifles, a horn, and fishing poles; and surrounding vignettes of hunters aim...
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Third Annual Supper of the New England Society Menu

Date: 12 22 1868
Description: Front cover and interior menu pages from the Third Annual Supper of the New England Society, held at Vilas House to commemorate Forefather's Day. On the co...
Photograph

We Saw You . . . at Watermelon Festival

Date: 08 30 1959
Description: Mark and Mike Merkle and Bill Lachnit enjoy watermelon at the Monona Grove Businessmen's Association Watermelon Festival.
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We Saw You . . . at Watermelon Festival

Date: 08 30 1959
Description: Children enjoying big slices of watermelon at the Monona Grove Businessmen's Association watermelon festival. They include, from left, Kay Marks, Dannie Du...
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We Saw You . . . at Watermelon Festival

Date: 08 30 1959
Description: Linda and Donald Harrison enjoying the Watermelon Festival sponsored by the Monona Businessmen's Association.

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