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Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1900
Description: View down unpaved street. Caption reads: "Main Street, Belleville, Wis".
Manuscript

Wasmuth Portfolio Manuscript Page

Date: 
Description: First page from the Wasmuth Portfolio, text written by Frank Lloyd Wright. The manuscript, written by Wright in Italy, also includes more than forty sketc...
Drawing

"Attar of Clam"

Date: 1903
Description: Drawing of a perfume bottle labeled "Attar of Clam" with a sign reading: "The most exquisite perfume made. TRIPLE DISTILLATION. Absolutely PURE
Photograph

Northwest Paper Company Plant

Date: 
Description: An exterior view of the Northwest Paper Company. It was founded in 1898 and manufactured high quality printing, writing, and converting paper. The Cloquet...
Photograph

Portrait of Harry E. Hill

Date: 
Description: Oval quarter-length portrait of Harry E. Hill, with writing on the back: "To A.C. Miller with treasured memories of years agone. Sincerely H. Hill."
Photograph

Stone Bee House

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Description: Stone "bee house". Writing on back: "An old stone bee house in Sarchem, Indiana. The hives were arranged on shelves on the inside, and the bees passed thro...
Photograph

Vel Phillips and Two Women

Date: 1971
Description: Vel Phillips sitting at her desk in the Milwaukee Common Council chamber. She is writing on a piece of paper. Seated next to her are two unidentified women...
Manuscript

Samuel Marshall's Diary Pages

Date: 1846
Description: Two pages of Samuel Marshall's 1846 diary, filled with daily entries.
Manuscript

Letter from Monture to Dodge

Date: 05 28 1779
Description: Letter written by John Monture to John Dodge.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Best writings of all authors bearing on Fond du Lac County before 1840 merged into an interesting story

Date: 1914-04-18
County: Fond Du Lac
City: Fond du Lac
Photograph

Flight Nurse with Patient in Anoxic Chamber

Date: 1945
Description: A flight nurse in an anoxic faint chamber, used to simulate high altitude flying with little oxygen, placing an oxygen mask over a male patient's face. He ...
Poster

Comment ils écrivent L'Histoire

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicting three soldiers resting on a battlefield. One soldier is smoking a pipe, one soldier is writing a letter, and the third soldier is looking ...
Photograph

Dr. John A. Schindler Family — Portrait at Home

Date: 10 24 1957
Description: Dr. Schindler at home sitting at his writing desk in his library and study. The caption says he is wearing a deep red silk smoking jacket and that he took ...
Manuscript

John Muir Letter

Date: 
Description: The first page of a poem written by John Muir entitled "The Sabbath."
Manuscript

Thomas Forsyth Letter

Date: 07 03 1821
Description: Two pages of a letter written by Thomas Forsyth.
Manuscript

Fort Dearborn Evacuation Order

Date: 07 29 1812
Description: A handwritten order to evacuate Ft. Dearborn.
Manuscript

First Page of Lapham's Gazetteer

Date: 1844
Description: Handwritten first page of Increase Lapham's unpublished gazetteer of Wisconsin.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

"Frauen Zeitung"

Date: 09 27 1848
Description: The front page of the newsletter "Frauen-Zeitung."
Drawing

Cross Section of Piffy's Hopes

Date: 1909
Description: A hand-drawn cyanotype chart tracking Piffy's (Charles Isley's) morale.
Manuscript

Andrew Pickens' Letter

Date: 08 28 1811
Description: A page of a letter written by Andrew Pickens.

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