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| Description: | Townspeople fleeing the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | "Old Abe The Live Wisconsin War Eagle," eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment painted from life perched on a flag pole. |
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| Description: | Orange-red colored influenza quarantine card with text in black ink that reads, "All persons are notified of the presence of this disease and on account of... |
| Date: | 1801 |
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| Description: | A silver letter seal, which belonged to Charles Langlade. |
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| Description: | A close-up of the markings on the back of the head of a Dainty Dorothy doll. |
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| Description: | View of a country store in autumn. A man driving a horse-drawn wagon hauls full milkcans in the foreground and, to the right, several families are hauling ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin campaign pin for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Nance Garner's 1936 run. It reads "Roosevelt Garner Club, Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Campaign button for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with Roosevelt's image at the center and the phrase "Carry on with Roosevelt" around the outer edge. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Campaign banner in support of Franklin Delano Roosevelt for President. The banner bears Roosevelt's image and the phrases "God Bless America" and "our next... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Pin celebrating 50 years of Green Bay Packers football. There is a picture of a Packer helmet on the pin. |
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| Description: | Dairyland rat poison container, made for the Wisconsin Pharmacal Company in Milwaukee. It was a warfarin-based poison. |
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| Description: | A banjo-ukulele with the words "Oh, I Wish I Were... An Oscar Mayer Wiener..." on the body of the instrument. It was used by Richard Trentlage in the first... |
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| Description: | View of the inside of a top hat made from beaver felt, worn by Green Bay resident Morgan L. Martin. The maker's label reads: "Orel Cook, Rutland, Vt." |
| Date: | 10 01 1982 |
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| Description: | Elwin "Al" Smith stands in front of his Borden's delivery truck on his last day before retirement. A University of Wisconsin dormitory and a parking lot ar... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card with full-length formal studio portrait of young Beulah Irene Miller (1888-1858). She is sitting in a chair with her hands in her lap. Her dre... |
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| Description: | William R. "Bill" Kinney (1912-1978) stands in front of the White Front Tavern and Restaurant. Bill and his brother Howard Kinney owned the bar from 1948-1... |
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| Description: | William R. "Bill" Kinney (1912-1978) behind the bar of the White Front Tavern. Bill and his brother Howard Kinney owned the bar from 1948-1956. Three unide... |
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| Description: | William R. "Bill" Kinney (1912-1978) stands in front of the electric sign for the Hi Way 30 Liquor Store, located at 3340 Commercial Avenue. Kinney owned t... |
| Date: | 05 03 1937 |
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| Description: | Menu for an Aloha Dinner on the Japanese passenger ship, M.S. Chichibu Maru, printed on a folding paper and bamboo hand fan, with painted blue irise... |
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| Description: | A front view of a can of Horlicks Malted Milk in "Sweet Chocolate Flavor." The can has a red trademark and lists the malted milk ingredients. |
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