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Syvert A. Lee

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Description: Full-length cabinet card portrait of Syvert A. Lee, a private in Company H, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform next to a prop baluster and railing. The fol...
Photograph

Tosten Mossefin

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Description: Seated oval studio portrait of Tosten Mossefin, a private in Company H, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following information was obtained from the Regimental...
Photograph

Robinson D. Pike Office

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Description: Front facade of Robinson D. Pike office.
Print

Springtime Air Conditioning Ad

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Description: "It's Always Springtime on the C&O," an advertising brochure issued by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad to publicize its status as the first railroad to air ...
Photograph

Louis Erikson

Date: 1862
Description: A head and shoulders studio portrait of Louis Erickson, a private in Company B, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following information was obtained from the R...
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Erik Larson

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Description: A seated, waist-up studio portrait of Erick Larson, a corporal in Company B, 15th Wisconsin Infantry, in uniform holding a musket across his chest. The fo...
Photograph

Brown Syverson

Date: 1861
Description: Waist-up portrait of Brown Siverson [as written on portrait; also written as Brown Syverson on Descriptive Rolls, Volume 20 and publish roster: Wisconsin V...
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Milk Strike at Stanley

Date: 1932
Description: Crowd gathered for the milk strike at Stanley.
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Cottage

Date: 1936
Description: View of a Hilbert Lake cottage surrounded by trees and foliage.
Photograph

Halvor A. Lee

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Description: Portrait of Halvor A. Lee of the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company D, holding a gun.
Photograph

Rennebohm Campaigning

Date: 11 1956
Description: Oscar Rennebohm distributing Republican Party campaign literature during the 1956 campaign, probably in the Milwaukee area. The brochure he is holding urg...
Photograph

Isabel Bacon La Follette on farm in Mazomanie

Date: 1942
Description: Isabel Bacon La Follette holding a rake on the farm Philip purchased in northwestern Dane County.
Print

Old Timer's Resort Brochure

Date: 1910
Description: Cover of brochure for Old Timer's Resort (formerly Burke's Resort).
Print

International Harvester Engine Trade Card

Date: 1905
Description: Advertising card for International Harvester stationary engines. Features a color illustration of a young girl fetching water from a trough. A pump powered...
Print

D.M. Osborne Factory Buildings

Date: 1893
Description: Inside spread of an advertising folder showing factory buildings of the D.M. Osborne Company. The top center illustration is the Office and Factory; bottom...
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne World's Fair Souvenir

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back of an advertising folder produced by the D.M. Osborne Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features illustrations of a young gi...
Postcard

Lincoln-Todd Monument

Date: 1945
Description: Lincoln-Todd Monument in East Park. Caption reads: "Lincoln-Todd Monument, Racine, Wisconsin".
Photograph

Michael Bell, Nashotah House

Date: 1962
Description: Nashotah House, the Michael Bell. Clipping from "Oconomowoc Enterprise," November 22, 1962. More information from clipping on reverse of card.
Print

Cheese & Butter Table

Date: 1937
Description: Advertising brochure for Wisconsin's dairy industry issued by the State Department of Agriculture. It depicts Wisconsin as the table upon which cheese and...
Photograph

Ice Skaters

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Description: Ice skaters posing in a row on a frozen lake (possibly Big Chetac Lake). On the far right is Thomas Oliver Mattis and next to him is (probably) George Matt...

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