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Swearing-In Native American Civil War Recruits

Date: 1861
Description: Thomas Bigford (in cap, on left) and another official swearing-in two Native American Civil War recruits. Thomas Bigford (1815-1890) of Taycheedah, Wiscons...
Manuscript

Scrapbook Page - Bridge and Canoes

Date: 1900
Description: A scrapbook page containing two images; one of a train passing over a trestle bridge and the other of people in two canoes.
Photograph

Announcer Del Viney Inside WVLR Studio

Date: 1965
Description: Radio announcer Del Viney on the air inside Wisconsin's Very Live Radio (WVLR) station during the dinner music show. Caption reads: "Dinner Music Show is a...
Photograph

Sara Sound Productions

Date: 1965
Description: James Kirchstein, Wisconsin's Very Live Radio (WVLR) station chief engineer and originator, inside his recording company, Sara Sound Productions, Inc. WVLR...
Photograph

Workers Filling Railroad Cooling Car with Ice

Date: 1966
Description: Two workers filling a railroad cooling car with ice from an International truck at a railroad yard.
Photograph

Chicago Truck Driver Getting Into International Truck

Date: 1966
Description: Truck driver Joseph Rito getting into an International truck. Rito drove for McNeil.
Photograph

Men Posed with Stagecoach and International Truck

Date: 1920
Description: Six men posed with a stage coach and an International F-31 truck in front of the Circle Route Stage Line and Beaumont Stables storefront. The line ran from...
Photograph

Maitland of Milwaukee

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Lester Maitland, who was a U.S. Army Air Service pilot from Milwaukee who served as aide to General Billy Mitchell during th...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Mower, Reaper & Twine Binder Catalog

Date: 1883
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a horse-dr...
Book or Pamphlet

Brantford Steel Binders Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Front and back cover of an advertising catalog for A. Harris, Son & Company of Brantford, Canada, manufacturers of grain binders, mowers and reapers. The c...
Photograph

John MacKenzie and Portage Jail

Date: 1900
Description: Sheriff John MacKenzie poses in front of the Portage jail with his staff.
Book or Pamphlet

Excelsior Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1890
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Excelsior harvesting machinery manufactured by Hoover and Gamble. Features a color illustration of a boy and girl in a ...
Photograph

Manager and Jello

Date: 1979
Description: An unidentified manager of Rennebohm Drug Stores, Inc., holding a dish of jello in a kitchen area.
Print

The Evolution of the Reaper, Part One

Date: 1883
Description: Three illustrations from an 1883 McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog portraying the evolution of the reaper. The first drawing is captioned: "Firs...
Print

The Evolution of the Reaper, Part Two

Date: 1883
Description: Three illustrations from an 1883 McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog portraying the evolution of the reaper. The first drawing is captioned: "Four...
Photograph

Wisconsin Democrats at Convention

Date: 1968
Description: Several members of the Wisconsin delegation who support Eugene McCarthy, gather around the state sign at the National Democratic Convention. Only Hilton H...
Photograph

Rowland Evans, Jr.

Date: 06 1958
Description: Journalist Rowland Evans, Jr., shortly before he began his partnership with Robert Novak.
Print

Cover of the "Titletown, U.S.A. '61"

Date: 12 29 1961
Description: The cover of "Titletown, U.S.A. '61," a Special edition of the "Green Bay Press-Gazette."
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Joel Allen Barber

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait of Congressman Joel Allen Barber, 1809-1881. Barber served as a U.S. House Representative from the Wisconsin 3rd Congressional Dis...
Photograph

Portrait of Governor James O. Davidson

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Description: Waist-up portrait of James O. Davidson, sitting. He is wearing a dark suit with a white tie, and is holding a newspaper in his right hand.

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