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Book or Pamphlet

La Follette on the Firing Line

Date: 04 1907
Description: Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing an audience of 12,000 in Los Angeles. The photograph is on the cover of a pamphlet entitled "La Follette On The Firi...
Photograph

Marine Iron Company

Date: 
Description: The Peter Grignon Shipyard next to the Marine Iron Company.
Photograph

Hiram H. Herrick

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Hiram H. Herrick of the 36th Wisconsin Regiment in the Civil War. He enlisted from Middleton, Wisconsin, and was the father ...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Assembly of 1881

Date: 1881
Description: Composite of photographic portraits of men in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Along the bottom a numbered list of names identifies each man.
Photograph

McCormick Auto-Mower at Paris Exposition

Date: 1900
Description: Man sitting in a McCormick Auto-Mower in front of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company building at the Paris Exposition in France. Several men, a woman...
Photograph

McCormick Auto-Mower in Paris

Date: 1900
Description: Man sitting in a McCormick Auto-Mower at or near the Paris Exposition in France. The Auto-Mower was an experimental gasoline-powered mowing machine. This i...
Photograph

McCormick Machines at Paris Exposition

Date: 1900
Description: McCormick mower, grain binder and other items on display in the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company exhibit at the Paris Exposition in France.
Photograph

Shooting a Refrigerator Advertisement

Date: 07 31 1950
Description: A woman wearing an apron posing with a refrigerator in a photography studio while a photographer takes a picture for advertising.
Photograph

Wisconsin Central Freight Cars

Date: 05 05 1897
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Central freight cars in a rural storage yard near Manitowoc.
Drawing

High Voltage Test Transformers

Date: 
Description: Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo...
Photograph

San Xavier Mission Side Altar

Date: 
Description: The side altar at the San Xavier Del Bac Mission church, near Tucson.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol from Lake Mendota

Date: 
Description: Evening view of Capitol from across Lake Mendota.
Drawing

Hillside Calendar Cover Design

Date: 1907
Description: Cover illustration for the Hillside Calendar depicting a girl with birds and flowers.
Photograph

Zinc Works

Date: 1900
Description: View looking over the zinc mining operation.
Manuscript

J.C. Fairchild Letter

Date: 1856
Description: Letter from Napoleon Bonaparte Van Slyke to Mayor Jairus Fairchild, from the Astor House, New York, describing the sale of city bonds.
Photograph

John R. Commons

Date: 1919
Description: Studio portrait of Professor John R. Commons.
Photograph

Ripon College

Date: 1950
Description: Exterior view of Lane Library at Ripon College, with groups of young people seated on the front steps.
Book or Pamphlet

Quercus Acutidens

Date: 1857
Description: A drawing of a quercus acutidens plant.
Book or Pamphlet

Pinus Torreyana

Date: 1857
Description: Drawing of the pinus torreyana plant.
Magazine or Periodical

Frank Lloyd Wright on the Cover of "Harvester World"

Date: 08 1950
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright posing on the cover of "Harvester World" magazine. Wright is sitting at a desk at Taliesin.

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