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Lutie Eugenia Stearns

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Lutie Eugenia Stearns, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Feature Story

Liza Kanne

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Liza Kanne, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers and Storytellers
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Madelyn Davis

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Madelyn Davis, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers and Storytellers
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Kaia Stueck

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Kaia Stueck, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers and Storytellers
Photograph

Charles McCarthy in his Office

Date: 
Description: Charles McCarthy writing at his desk in his office.
Photograph

Free The Hollywood Ten

Date: 10 28 1947
Description: Several members of the screenwriters and directors known as the "Hollywood Ten," together with members of their families at a demonstration before their im...
Photograph

First Attempt

Date: 1887
Description: Scrapbook page containing a cyanotype and albumen print of a picket fence and the caption: "First Attempt;" 1887, What's the Matter? "Light struck."
Photograph

Trials and Tribulations of Amateur Photography

Date: 1887
Description: Scrapbook page containing a cyanotype print and an albumen print looking toward Lake Michigan.
Manuscript

Diary of Sgt. Charles Floyd

Date: 1804
Description: Front cover of the 55-page diary, from May 14 through August 17, 1804 written by Charles Floyd, a sergeant with the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Manuscript

Letter of Gilbert Imlay

Date: 03 15 1783
Description: Letter written by Gilbert Imlay regarding Daniel Boone.
Manuscript

Letter to Daniel Boone

Date: 1786
Description: Body of a letter written by Gilbert Imlay to Colonel Daniel Boone.
Manuscript

Part Two of Letter to Daniel Boone

Date: 1786
Description: Letter written by Gilbert Imlay to Daniel Boone.
Photograph

Radiophone

Date: 
Description: A woman takes down menus and recipes that she hears on her radiophone.
Photograph

Man Writing a Medical Prescription

Date: 01 14 1941
Description: Close-up of a man writing a medical prescription for digitalis on a pad labeled: "John J. Doe, M.D. Brovira, Wis."
Photograph

Rev. Edwin O. Kennedy

Date: 09 26 1935
Description: Rev. Edwin O. Kennedy sitting at a desk writing a letter, Christ Presbyterian Church, 124 Wisconsin Avenue. There is a telephone on the desk, and books are...
Photograph

Janette Serrec Standing Beside Pontiac Car

Date: 05 22 1933
Description: Janette Serrec, University of Wisconsin graduate, lecturer and writer on the "Fine Art of Successful Living," standing beside a Pontiac automobile she drov...
Photograph

Shorthand at Dickinson Secretarial School

Date: 01 15 1931
Description: A women dictates to another student practicing for ABC shorthand at the Dickinson Secretarial School, 105 Monona Avenue.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Thwaites' Office

Date: 1897
Description: Reuben Gold Thwaites, secretary of the State Historical Society, at his desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Thwaites succeeded Lym...
Photograph

Writing a Note

Date: 1950
Description: A woman writes a note at a small writing desk in her kitchen.
Manuscript

Letter From Clark To Hamilton

Date: 02 24 1779
Description: Letter from Colonel George Rogers Clark to Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton demanding unconditional surrender of Fort Vincennes.

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