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Drawing

Elevated View over River

Date: 1876
Description: View looking southeast over river from Elmore and Kelly's Elevator.
Photograph

Juneau Monument

Date: 1893
Description: Side view of monument with plaque. Behind the statue is a road, trees, and the top of a building. A fire hydrant and a small group of people are on the ri...
Photograph

Baptist Church

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Description: Exterior view of the church. Built in 1867, it was dismantled in 1914. Caption reads: "Babtist [sic] Ch. Waukau Wis."
Photograph

House of Tomorrow Detail

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Description: A construction detail in the House of Tomorrow showing the red top floor joists in place. Two men wearing hats are on the structure with their backs to the...
Photograph

House of Tomorrow Detail

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Description: Construction detail of the House of Tomorrow showing the floor slab poured.
Photograph

Soren H. Hauge

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Description: Head and shoulders oval studio portrait of Soren H. Hauge, a Wagoner in Company B, 15th Wisconsin Infantry, in uniform holding musket with fixed bayonet ag...
Photograph

William Elwell Middleton

Date: 1910
Description: William Middleton, dressed as a chef, poses holding a bowl on a plate. He is wearing pince-nez glasses.
Photograph

Dock at Log Cabin Lodge

Date: 1935
Description: A view down the stairway on a steep hill with a rock wall at the dock on Buskey Bay (not Lake Millicent). Boats and an adult and child are visible on the d...
Photograph

Scholl with Beehive

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Description: Beekeeper handling hives. Writing on back: Scholl's method of "jerking" off bulk comb honey helpers.
Photograph

Freddie Mae Hill

Date: 1928
Description: Quarter-length profile portrait of Freddie Mae Hill, the first African-American resident of Madison to graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison H...
Photograph

Russell Greene

Date: 08 1916
Description: Russell Greene enjoying his dinner, which he is spooning from a can. He is standing by the river wearing a letter sweater.
Photograph

Adda Howie

Date: 1923
Description: Quarter-length oval framed studio portrait of Adda Howie.
Print

United We Stand Letterhead

Date: 05 25 1864
Description: Letterhead of a belt looped in a circle around interlocking letters reading: "USA." Text printed on the belt reads: "United We Stand, Divided We Fall." Ill...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of John A. Kittell

Date: 1920
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of John Kittell.
Photograph

"Monumental Oriental Head"

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Description: View of a large, faded concrete-cast "Monumental Oriental Head" of the Buddha with heavily textured light-colored hair and topknot. With dimensions of 110"...

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