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Store and Saloon

Date: 1890
Description: Exterior view from across road of men gathered outside a store and saloon. Most of the men hold a glass of beer as though toasting. Two teams of horses are...
Print

Royal Queen Japan Tea

Date: 05 28 1909
Description: Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. Features an illustration of a Japanese woman wearing traditional clothing. In the bac...
Postcard

Winnebago Dairy Farm

Date: 10 18 1939
Description: Postcard submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. On the front of the postcard is the slogan: You can 'whip' our cream but you can't...
Photograph

Podiatrist Dr. Helen Walters

Date: 1977
Description: "Podiatrist Dr. Helen Walters of Fond du Lac does her thing on a patient's feet."
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Performing Horses

Date: 1924
Description: Three performing horses stand on platforms in a ring as their trainer gestures proudly in the foreground. Behind the ring are banners decorated with horses...
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Winning Ticket

Date: 08 1993
Description: "TV news people stand in front of the Fond du Lac Sentry store where the winning ticket was purchased."
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Winning Ticket

Date: 08 1993
Description: "The media coverage was incredible when Les Robins and Colleen DeVries receive their checks."
Photograph

Winning Ticket

Date: 08 1993
Description: "$110,000,000 Jackpot."
Print

Grand Council Held at Fond du Lac

Date: 1827
Description: View of large gathering of people among trees. A crowd is gathered in a semi-circle facing a table where two people are standing. Two U.S flags fly over th...
Poster

Vote For Republican Candidates

Date: 11 05 1918
Description: Election poster featuring Republican candidates. Quarter-length portraits accompany each name. Names, left to right and top to bottom, "For Governor, Emanu...
Photograph

Lakeside Park

Date: 1932
Description: Children and adults enjoy a sunny day at the Lake Winnebago shore in Lakeside Park in Fond du Lac.
Photograph

Wedding Reception at the Hotel Retlaw

Date: 11 24 1955
Description: Grace and Dave Schommer enter the Hotel Retlaw for their wedding reception.
Photograph

Pete Runde Performs

Date: 07 1990
Description: Pete Runde performs at Buttermilk Park.
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Performance at Navy Reunion

Date: 06 2000
Description: Carly Hren, Caitlin Diedrich, Chelsey Wilz, Joye Widmer, Parker Hren, and Logan Wilz sing "Anchors Away" at Ralph Widmer's Navy Reunion.
Photograph

Children Posing with New Car

Date: 1909
Description: Children of William A. Titus posed at the family model T Ford automobile, the first such car purchased in Fond du Lac County.
Postcard

Railroad Loading Platform

Date: 1924
Description: Railroad loading platform with a Gurney Refrigerator Company plant in the far background. On the far left a man pulls a hand cart, in the center a man sits...
Photograph

Augustus Ledyard Smith

Date: 
Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Augustus Ledyard Smith from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Quarter-length portrait, facing forward. He is wearing a suit and tie,...
Photograph

Bill Casper and Green Bay Packers Shanty

Date: 1998
Description: Bill Casper, of Fond du Lac, preparing to transport his iconic Green Bay Packers ice shanty to the 1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall ...
Photograph

Christian Casper Painting Ice Shanty

Date: 1998
Description: Christian Casper, grandson of Bill Casper, touching up the paint on Bill’s iconic Green Bay Packers ice shanty in Fond du Lac, before it is transported to ...
Postcard

Fire Damage; Grant School

Date: 09 26 1908
Description: Grant School in the aftermath of Fond du Lac's biggest fire — September 26, 1908. Caption reads: "Grant School."

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