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Meta Berger

Date: 1910
Description: Studio portrait of Meta Berger seated with her hands folded in her lap. The dress was made at the Milwaukee Girls' Trade School (founded in 1909 by Lizzie ...
Photograph

All Saint's Episcopal Church

Date: 1971
Description: Church front with steeple. Road with cars, lamp post, and shoveled snow.
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City Hall

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated exterior view. Sign on front of City Hall reads: "Help Prevent Fires," and the Henry Bergh statue and fountain is in front of the building. Severa...
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Rowland Evans, Jr.

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

John Bunny Profile Portrait

Date: 1913
Description: Stacy Studio head and shoulders portrait of the Vitagraph star John Bunny.
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

Mason City Branch House

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of an International Harvester Company branch building. There is snow on the ground, and a railroad car is parked near a loading dock along th...
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Henry B. Harris and Renee Harris

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Description: Henry and Renee Harris are seated together in an almost-empty theater. This is half of a photograph that includes three other people in the side not visibl...
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Sixth District School No. 2, Fifth Grade Class

Date: 1901
Description: Milwaukee Public school, Sixth district School no. 2, Fifth grade class. teacher Miss H. Kather, Patrick Shaunnessy Principal. Boys: Emil Dankert, Charles ...
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William R. Odell Sitting at Desk

Date: 1955
Description: Portrait of William Rice Odell sitting at his desk. A curtain on a window in the background bears the International Harvester Company logo. Odell graduated...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1885
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring a color illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat under one arm, and holding a hand scythe in the other hand.
Photograph

Robert Harron

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Description: Quarter-length publicity portrait of actor Robert Harron. He is wearing a suit coat, tie and dress shirt. "14912 Herron ?? F" is written on his shoulder.
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...
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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.
Photograph

Victor Berger

Date: 1923
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of Victor Berger.
Photograph

La Follette Hickory

Date: 1982
Description: A well-shaped hickory on the Wisconsin capitol grounds in winter, against the backdrop of the capitol building. The tree, estimated to be about forty to f...
Photograph

Cram/Houghton Blaze Tree

Date: 1982
Description: A segment of the trunk of a pine bears the scars of a "blaze" carved with an ax and bearing the inscription: "XIX T. J. Cram, D. Houghton Aug 11, 1841." C...
Book or Pamphlet

William G. Brumder

Date: 1954
Description: A page titled: "Photos from the Family Album" announces the election of William G. Brumder (1901-1976) as President and Chairman of the Board of First Wisc...
Photograph

Dushanka and Gruja Bratkovich

Date: 04 11 1979
Description: A woman and a man are standing next to two large pots of food on a stove. The woman is holding a utensil over one pot. Caption reads: "Dushanka and Gruja B...
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Veteran with Gun

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Description: A Vietnam veteran is pointing a gun toward the camera. He is wearing sunglasses, a hat, and camouflage. There is a dog standing beside him on the left. Peo...

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