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Commanders in Chief — GAR

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Description: Group of portraits of the Commanders in Chief — Grand Army of the Republic, starting with the first, General E.A. Hurlbut (1866-1867) to John P. Rea (1887)...
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National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic

Date: 1890
Description: Depiction of the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, held in Boston, Massachusetts. On the border surrounding the group portrait are ind...
Photograph

Milwaukee Turners Gymnasts

Date: 1909
Description: Six group portraits of men in human pyramid formations using ladders and one group portrait of men posing as a group at the 30th National Turnerfest in Cin...
Poster

Wrestling at Manitowoc Terrace Gardens

Date: 1930
Description: Poster for a wrestling event at Manitowoc Terrace Gardens, featuring Strahota vs. Gaza, Marko vs. Ackley, Miller vs. Pahl, Zarnath vs. Bucher. Monday eveni...
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Bohemian Hall Wrestling

Date: 1930
Description: Poster for wrestling event at Bohemian Hall featuring Strahota vs. Ostreich, Ackley vs. Gaza, Novak vs. Hauser and Wagner vs. Pfister. Event is May 11 at 8...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 67

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Description: On the map it shows the turkey buzzards circling overhead
to tell us who we are and what the odds.
Don't count;
a promise is no more than just a s...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 72

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Description: Old skin is yet alive to whispered lashings,
the quick-step dried and gone to the bone.
Embrace the wall and face away from trouble
in the winter ...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 102

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Description: He was taught restraint and patriotic fiction,
letting automation by
to wipe the chimneys clean of issues
and make horizons in the sky
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Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 134

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Description: We always know what day it is
Because it never fails. Sometime between the awful and the coffee
that stepson drives along the road
and all the dog...
Poster

Treat Yourself to a Wisconsin Natural Cheese Sandwich

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Description: Poster with an illustration of a woman wearing a nurses uniform, and a knife with slices of cheese cut from a block of Wis-Cheese Sandwich Cut. Text reads:...
Poster

Pillow Talk halfsheet poster

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Description: Halfsheet poster for the 1959 film "Pillow Talk" starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson. The poster shows Day and Hudson laying next to each other with their ...

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