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Point Sable Potsherd

Date: 1949
Description: Close-up view of patterns in a broken piece of pottery. Caption reads: "Interior of potsherd from Point Sable, Town of Scott, Brown Co., Wis. State Hist. M...
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First Artesian Well in DePere

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of a crowd of people standing near an artesian well. Men wearing long coats and hats to protect them from the water are standing on and unde...
Photograph

Old Bridge Area Manufacturing Plants

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view of several buildings, with bridge and railroad tracks, and the Fox River. In the foreground on the right is the Commercial House, with three ...
Photograph

Village House

Date: 1870
Description: Elevated view of an unpaved main street, with the Village House across the street in the center background. Wooden buildings and wooden sidewalks are on bo...
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Cynthia Adams, "Talenteen" Finalist

Date: 04 01 1963
Description: Overhead view of a young woman playing a grand piano. Caption reads: "One of 10 "Talenteen" finalists, Cynthia Adams, 15, of 3365 S. 69th st., perfo...
Photograph

Fort Howard Ball

Date: 07 1934
Description: View across lawn towards people in formal attire standing in a field, in front of a tent stage. Along the tent are large panels with drawings or paintings ...
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Tercentennial Celebration, Green Bay

Date: 07 1934
Description: View across lawn towards people standing in front of a large theater stage and backdrop with trees drawn on it. Some are costumed as soldiers and some as N...
Classroom Material

Modern Jungles Education Materials

Education materials for grades 6-12 for use with the book "Modern Jungles" by Pao Lor
Education materials for grades 6-12 for use with the book Modern Jungles
Feature Story

Pao Lor

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers and Storytellers
Pao Lor, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers and Storytellers
Photograph

Green Bay Precinct Committeemen

Date: 11 04 1936
Description: Two men and a woman are sitting in the center, with the man in the middle holding up a piece of paper that they are looking at. A large group of people are...
Photograph

De Pere House Hotel Register

Date: 08 1871
Description: Caption reads: "Photocopy of the hotel register at the De Pere House De Pere Wis from Friday August 4 to Tuesday August 8 1871. Among names to be noted are...
Postcard

Main Street — Green Bay

Date: 1951
Description: Colorized postcard view down a street in a main shopping district. Traffic signals are on the corners, and a large flag is hanging from the Beaumont Hotel ...
Postcard

National Railroad Museum; Dwight D. Eisenhower Locomotive #60008

Date: 1964
Description: Color postcard of a green customized locomotive. Text on reverse reads: "Famous Dwight D. Eisenhower Locomotive #60008. Built in London and N.E.R.R. in ...
Postcard

National Railroad Museum

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Description: Color postcard of the Sumter and Choctaw R.R., Mikado Type Locomotive, freight cars and Milwaukee Road caboose.
Postcard

National Railroad Museum

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Description: Color postcard of a yellow train car next to a yellow depot. Text on reverse reads: "National Railroad Museum Green Bay, Wisconsin Internationally famo...
Postcard

Bedroom of Madam Tank; Tank House

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Description: Interior color postcard of a bedroom at the Tank House built in 1776. In the room is a bed, chest, fireplace, dressing table with mirror and a spinning whe...
Photograph

Green Bay

Date: 1979
Description: The sun is peeking through the clouds and trees. Snow covers an open field and in the distance is a tree covered hill.
Photograph

Time Out

Date: 11 1973
Description: Green Bay Packer, Center Ken Bowman, taking a drink from a cup during a time out. He played 10 seasons for the Packers and played college ball for U.W. Mad...
Photograph

Geese, Trees and River

Date: 1979
Description: Geese and ducks on the shoreline and in the water, seen through trees. A paved road is in the foreground, and the far shoreline is wooded.
Postcard

Library; Tank House

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Description: Interior color postcard of the library in the Tank House, built by Joseph Le Roi in 1776. A piano is against the wall on the right under framed portraits. ...

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