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Drawing

Engineering Building

Date: 1948
Description: Model of the new Engineering Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Designed by the State Bureau of Architecture.
Photograph

Robert M. Ball, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance

Date: 1960
Description: Portrait of Robert M. Ball sitting at his desk, as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance. In 1962, President Kennedy appointed B...
Photograph

Ojibwa Herbalist

Date: 
Description: An Ojibwa herbalist prepares medicine and treats a patient. From the "Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology J.W. Powell Director 1885-1886" page 159.
Photograph

Frieda S. Miller

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Frieda S. Miller. Ms. Miller was the director of the U.S. Department of Labor — Women's Bureau, from 1944-1953. She later wo...
Photograph

G. Aubrey Young

Date: 1965
Description: Portrait of G. Aubrey Young, who was director of the Bureau of Affirmative Action and Education, Equal Rights Division, in the 1960s. Young had previosuly ...
Map or Atlas

Map of a Portion of the Indian Country

Date: 1835
Description: Constructed for the Topographical Bureau [Wash.], 1835. Scale: 16 miles to 1 inch. Map of a portion of the Indian country lying east and west of the Missis...
Photograph

Infant Hygiene Class

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Description: Infant Hygiene class at Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Portrait in a Mirror

Date: 1900
Description: A woman photographer catches reflections of herself, a young girl and a woman in a bedroom bureau mirror.
Photograph

Alvin J. Steinkopf

Date: 1962
Description: Informal portrait of Associated Press journalist Alvin J. Steinkopf seated at his desk in the London bureau.
Photograph

Sarnoff of NBC

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Description: Robert Sarnoff (center), president of NBC, at a social gathering in Tokyo with Cecil Brown, the head of NBC's bureau in Tokyo, and Martha Brown.
Photograph

Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies

Date: 09 28 1948
Description: Robert C. Goodwin, Director of the Bureau of Employment Security, and Arthur J. Altmeyer, Commissioner, Social Security Administration, at the twelfth annu...
Photograph

Menominee Indian "Garters"

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Description: Menominee Indian "garters" made of beads and yarn.
Photograph

Dr. Sylvia Stuessy

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Description: Portrait of Dr. Sylvia Stuessy.
Photograph

Mrs. Pask, Mrs Filner, and Three Children

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Description: Portrait of Mrs. Pask and Mrs. Filner, and three children.
Photograph

Switzer Foundation for Girls

Date: 1920
Description: A view of a bedroom at Switzer Foundation for Girls furnished with two twin beds, two rugs, two chairs, and a bureau. The back wall has a large double wind...
Photograph

Queen of the Day

Date: 04 1948
Description: Mrs. Caroline Meyer, 88, being crowned as queen of the day at the centennial program of the Town Mesne Farm Bureau. Mrs. Meyer was honored as the oldest mo...
Photograph

Boy Bathing Doll in Infant Hygiene Class

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Description: A boy is bathing a doll in Infant Hygiene Class while other classmates watch.
Photograph

Baby in Diaper with Rickets

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Description: Portrait of Norine Durham, 1 year 3 months, child of Mrs. Alan Durham Humbird, undernourished with rickets.
Photograph

First Toll Bridge

Date: 1866
Description: First toll bridge over an unidentified river.
Photograph

Horse Barns at the State Fair

Date: 1900
Description: View of the Wisconsin State Fair showing the long row of horse barns.

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