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Lillian Sholes

Date: 1872
Description: Lillian Sholes, demonstrating a prototype typewriter invented by her father, Christopher Latham Sholes.
Photograph

Sidell Sisters

Date: 1927
Description: The Sidell Sisters, Billie and Pierre, posed as a Latin couple. The Sidell Sisters were from Madison, Wisconsin. They were students of Leo T. Kehl and th...
Photograph

Chapelle with Soldiers and Woman

Date: 1958
Description: Dickey Chapelle posing in Cuba with Major Antonio Lusson, and a group of male and female soldiers.
Photograph

Portrait of George William Piernot

Date: 1970
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of George William Piernot (1922-2000). Piernot served as a member of the Madison Fire Department from about 1946 until his reti...
Photograph

Young Dickey Chapelle

Date: 1938
Description: A candid head and shoulders portrait of a young Dickey Chapelle without eyeglasses.
Photograph

Automobile Club Members

Date: 10 10 1966
Description: Four auto club members work on a 1932 Ford Coupe. Rick Burkee (right, foreground) and Robin Friberg work on engine parts as Greg Beaster polishes the car h...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

Date: 08 1946
Description: Paul R. Anderson of DeForest, Wisconsin, winner of the 1946 Madison Soap Box Derby, who went on to race at the All-American Soap Box Derby in Akron, Ohio. ...
Photograph

Fritz Albert

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Description: Portrait of Fritz Albert making a photograph will his Rolliflex on a tripod. Photograph was used in the exhibit, Land and People, Fritz Albert-Photographs.
Print

Levi H. Bancroft

Date: 09 10 1910
Description: Campaign poster promoting Levi H. Bancroft as the Republican candidate for Attorney General. The top two-thirds of the poster is a quarter-length portrait ...
Poster

"Fall Pow Wow" Poster

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Description: Poster promoting the Fall Pow Wow on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Includes a photograph of a group of people in the center. Produced by the ...
Photograph

Leo Lania

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Description: Dramatic waist-up portrait of an older Leo Lania (born Lazar Herrmann) holding a cigarette in a holder.
Magazine or Periodical

Cover of American Machinist

Date: 1951
Description: The cover of an issue of American Machinist (issued on August 20, 1951). A man is operating a machine.
Photograph

Henry Roe Cloud

Date: 1913
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Henry Roe Cloud.

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