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| Description: | A sign in Nakoma detailing real estate values, which reads "If you are going to build, note these facts..." |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Oil portrait of Nathaniel Ames, a former Revolutionary War soldier. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | This landscape painting by Samuel Marsden Brookes and Thomas H. Stevenson depicts a broad view of the confluence of Bad Axe and Mississippi Rivers; site of... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Wisconsin governor, William A. Barstow 1854-1856. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A man crouches down for a close look at a 1905 model Harley-Davidson motorcycle. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Walter Davidson and the motorcycle with which he won the two day endurance run from Catskill, New York to Brooklyn and Long Island, New York on June 28-29t... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Sons of the American Legion in formation outside the Witt Studio. Two of them hold flags. Names are (left to right), Don Frank, Jerry Zander, Ralph Meyer, ... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Poynette, with one vignette. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A boxing ring lobby display at the Empire Theatre for Battling Butler with Buster Keaton. The lobby cards read, "It's a knockout. Buster Keaton in '... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Advertising handbill for the Champion reaper and mower produced by Whiteley, Fassler & Kelly of Springfield, Ohio. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Zona Gale (Mrs. William Breese) in formal pose with her hair up and her hands clasped in front of her. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Thornton Wilder wearing eyeglasses. |
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| Description: | William Ellery Leonard, who was a poet and professor of English at the University of Wisconsin from 1906-44. |
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| Description: | A beech tree with the inscription, "D. Boon cilled a bar. 1760" carved into it. The tree was located up to the 1880s near Boone's Creek, Tennessee. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A still from the film The Jazz Singer showing Eugenie Besserer, Al Jolson, and Warner Oland (Warner 1927). |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Soldiers' Orphans Home, formerly Harvey Hospital. The octagon house was originally built for Governor Leonard J. Farwell and designed by Aug... |
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| Description: | A two-man team of sawers work on a massive tree with a crosscut saw (right) while a man with an an axe waits to trim branches. The trunks are then cut down... |
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