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Beaded Reebok Baby Shoes

Date: 1990
Description: A pair of Reebok baby shoes, beaded by Ho-Chunk artist Linda Lucero. The beads are glass and the shoes were probably never worn.
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Heileman's Old Style Lager Beer Label

Date: 1992
Description: A beer label featuring Heileman's Old Style Lager and Heileman Brewing Company, incorporating a drawing in the center labeled: "A Scene of Monks Brewing". ...
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Quilt Appliqued with Cherry Tree Pattern

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Description: A quilt appliqued with a cherry tree design. The design includes orange and scarlet birds and bright red cherries. There are brown vines and red and yellow...
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Ojibwe Beaded Bandolier Bag

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Description: Small bandolier bag with minimal beadwork. Bag is constructed of black and blue wool. Pocket opens full width of bag and is lined with striped light brown ...
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Oneida Beaded Bag

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Description: A small beaded bag created by a member of the Oneida tribe.
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Stoneware Punch Bowl

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Description: Stoneware bowl with a clear glaze on gray clay. Exterior has raised grape clusters in blue and painted blue underglaze. Interior surface has hand-painted b...
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Stoneware Vase

Date: 1893
Description: Stoneware vase is ovoid-shaped with a flared rim. It is gray with a salt-glaze. The dark brown on the lower body and the top of the neck may be caused by a...
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Wooden Ho-Chunk Spoon

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Description: A wooden Ho-Chunk spoon with a figure of an otter carved on the handle.
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Fiber and Buffalo Bag

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Description: A fiber and buffalo bag, Stockbridge-Munsee, 19th Century.
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Block-Printed Wall Hanging

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Description: A fabric, block-printed wall hanging featuring in its design a deer, the sun, and evergreen trees.
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Beaded Bandolier Bag

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Description: Solid beaded bandolier bag. Appliqued seed beads on canvas and velvet cloth in a floral design. Yarn and loom beaded tabs at the bottom of the bag. Black v...
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Beaded Bandolier Bag

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Description: Bandolier bag with loom-beaded panel and strap. Bag, pocket, and strap are constructed of off-white cotton layered with wool, and trimmed with dark red mil...
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Medal from the Exposition Internationale

Date: 1914
Description: Medal from the Exposition Internationale pinned to a board.
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Jane Addams

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Description: Album page that includes newspaper clippings of articles, and a portrait of Miss Addams.
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Dump Truck

Date: 10 18 1928
Description: View towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a dump truck. The truck is on a dirt road, and a fence and trees are in the background.
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Olivia Monona Exhibitor ID Card

Date: 1933
Description: Exhibitor identification card for opera singer Olivia Monona who worked as a representative of the Stayform Company at the Century of Progress World's Fair...
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Lewis Arms' Identification Card

Date: 02 23 1963
Description: The front side of Lewis Arms' Armed Forces identification card, which includes a photograph of Arms.
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Girl's Coat

Date: 1823
Description: Front view of girl's faded gray coat with red velvet trim. Worn by Jane Larned (Williamson) Hague (born 1819) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Presidental Political Campaign Ephemera

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Description: A presidential political campaign paper racoon hat for Estes Kefauver. It features two bands that become a headband, racoon tail, and a top that attaches t...
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Presidental Political Campaign Ephemera

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Description: A presidential political campaign paper visor with images of buttons for Dwight D. Eisenhower. The buttons read: "Let's Back Ike," Ike in '56," and "I Like...

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