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| Date: | 11 15 1918 |
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| Description: | Edith Storey, long-time silent film actress, most notably for Vitagraph and Metro Pictures, wearing a fox stole, waves good-bye from the last car of the Sa... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Bulletin urging farmers to kill grasshoppers with poisoned bran bait, featuring an illustration of a hand spreading bait for grasshoppers to eat. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of postmaster general John Gronouski. |
| Date: | 02 29 1968 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Robert Tehan in a suit and necktie. |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin heating plant, with two tall chimney stacks. Electric lines are in the foreground. There are trees on a hill on the left. On the ri... |
| Date: | 12 1930 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length, seated portrait of Mrs. Edward Petersen with her grandson, William Otto Petersen (1926-2012). Mrs. Petersen is wearing a dress with l... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | William O. Petersen, in a costume (Tracht) of Bavarian or Tyrolean style, poses seated on a bench with his arm around a small dog. He is wearing short lede... |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a European American woman posing standing. She has her hands on the back of a chair and is we... |
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| Description: | View across unpaved street towards a two-story wood frame house. Two woman and three children are posing, with a woman and child at the fence surrounding t... |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mary Davison Bradford. She was the first women in Wisconsin to serve as a superintendent of schools. She served in Kenosha from 1910-1... |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders oval-framed vignetted portrait of Jeremiah Rusk. He has a long beard and a moustache. Rusk's signature is reproduced below the portrait. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a deck of a schooner hauling lumber. Several workmen are loading or unloading the lumber. Industrial buildings, some displaying signs, are... |
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| Description: | Chief Albert Yellow Thunder, Sr., standing in semi-profile, holding a peace pipe and wearing Native American ceremonial clothing. In the right foreground i... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Pam Johnson, who in 1981 became the publisher for the "Ithaca Journal." This made her the first black woman to become publis... |
| Date: | 05 24 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd of people gathering across the street, near a stage. Automobiles are parked in the center of the street near the stage. In the for... |
| Date: | 12 04 1977 |
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| Description: | Close-up of musician Waylon Jennings playing guitar and singing during a concert. |
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| Description: | Unidentified actress having her gloves and veil adjusted by three other persons, on the set of "Sleep, My Love." One person is holding a fur stole. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of activist Belle Case La Follette, wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Waist-up profile portrait of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, who is wearing a uniform. Caption reads: "(100) King Alfonso's Throne Shaky. Conditions in Spain a... |
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