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Siggelkow Family

Date: 05 30 1851
Description: Portrait of the Siggelkow Family of copied from a lost daguerreotype. In the back row from left to right are Augusta Scharlotte, Johann Adolph, Marie Louis...
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Market Square

Date: 1890
Description: Polish immigrant standing near a team of horses eating hay in Market Square. He is wearing work clothes. Large brick buildings are in the background.
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Market Square

Date: 1890
Description: Polish immigrants in Market Square wearing Polish national dress. The men are wearing suits, coats, and hats. The women are wearing dresses, shawls and hat...
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Market Square

Date: 1890
Description: Polish immigrants, wearing Polish national dress, with a wagon in Market Square. Other men in the square are wearing suits, long coats, and hats. The women...
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Market Square

Date: 1890
Description: Polish immigrants in Market Square wearing Polish national dress. The men are wearing suits, coats, and hats. The women are wearing dresses, shawls, hats a...
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Market Square

Date: 1895
Description: Elevated view of Polish immigrants in Market Square with horse-drawn lumber sledges and hay wagons. Commercial buildings are in the background. A sign on o...
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Ruby Kubota

Date: 05 17 1944
Description: Portrait of Ruby Kubota, president of Groves Housing Co-op of the University of Wisconsin. Her father, George Kubota, came to the United States from Japan ...
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Swiss Immigration Tableau

Date: 1905
Description: Second generation Swiss-Americans dressed as Swiss immigrants for 1905 60th Anniversary of the founding of New Glarus.
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Swiss Passport Frontispiece

Date: 11 22 1848
Description: Frontispiece from a passport issued to Benedict Goldenberger from the canton of Aargau, Switzerland. He left Aargau in 1851, went to Massachussetts, and th...
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Union Solidarity

Date: 1959
Description: Children of striking Peyton Packing Company workers, all of Latin American descent, with gifts sent by union members in Wichita Kansas.
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Goodbye to Old Ireland

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Description: Boat in Queenstown, Ireland, going out to ocean liner and carrying (possibly), immigrants to the United States. Original catalog listing called "Goodbye to...
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Maria and Henry Getto in Yard

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Description: Maria and Henry Getto in the yard of their farm with windmill in the background, Oulu Township.
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Henry & Maria Getto in Buggy

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Description: Henry and Maria Getto in buggy, Oulu Township.
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Painting of "The Signing of the Magna Carta"

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Description: Painting, in the Wisconsin State Capitol, of "The Signing of the Magna Carta," one of four mural paintings by Albert Herter on the north wall of the Suprem...
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Aleksendra Zukowska

Date: 1910
Description: Portrait of Aleksendra Zukowska, a Russian Pole who was a machine hand at an International Harvester Twine Mill, probably in Chicago.
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Stanley Labonowski

Date: 1910
Description: Stanley Labonowski, a 29 year-old Lithuanian grain binder builder at International Harvester's McCormick Works.
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International Harvester Employee Jean Cassius

Date: 1910
Description: Portrait of Jean Cassius, a French machinist for International Harvester, most likely in Chicago.
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International Harvester Employee Frank Bach

Date: 1910
Description: Portrait of Frank Bach, a Romanian laborer in the sheet metal department at an International Harvester factory, most likely in Chicago.
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Oluf Ammundson and August Sweger

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype, waist-up portrait of Oluf Ammundson and August Sweger.
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"Macedonian" Foundryman

Date: 1910
Description: Portrait of a "Macedonian" foundryman at an International Harvester factory - probably Hamilton Works - in Ontario, Canada.

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