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Bruce Barton with Three Men

Date: 1937
Description: From left to right: Bruce Barton, Grantland Rice, John Wheeler, and Frank E. Gannett.
Photograph

Kennedy Home

Date: 1951
Description: Exterior view the Kennedy home at 215 North Pinckney Street.
Photograph

Kennedy Home

Date: 1951
Description: The Kennedy home at 215 North Pinckney Street.
Photograph

Kennedy Home

Date: 1951
Description: The carriage house, which is part of The Kennedy home, 215 North Pinckney Street, as seen from the back of the house proper. It is at the end of a long dr...
Photograph

Portrait of Benjamin Butts

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait of Benjamin Butts wearing bow tie and suit.
Photograph

Windrow-Harvester

Date: 1912
Description: Farmer operating the 12-foot ground drive windrow-harvester.
Photograph

International G/61 Electric Company Truck

Date: 04 14 1923
Description: An employee operates an International Model G or 61 truck with Mead-Morrison under-slung winch and derrier equipment for the Lowell Electric Lighting Compa...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Liberation News Service

Date: 07 25 1970
Description: Cover of "Liberation News Service," an underground news bulletin, featuring a Vietnamese woman carrying a firearm on her shoulder.
Book or Pamphlet

"From the Sublime to the Ridiculous" Field Tests

Date: 1894
Description: Cartoon on the last page of a McCormick catalog. The cartoon depicts the World's Fair field-trials in Wayne, Illinois, at which the McCormick mower prevail...
Photograph

Wisconsin Club

Date: 1938
Description: Wisconsin Club, Ninth Street and Wisconsin Avenue. Built as the Alexander Mitchell residence in 1876-1878. After his death, it was used as the quarters of ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee

Date: 1833
Description: Published in James Smith Buck's, "Pioneer History of Milwaukee". Lake Michigan is on the right, with three rivers that combine at different points and reac...
Photograph

Gate of the Tripp Quadrangle

Date: 1947
Description: Entrance to a dormitory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison men's Residence Halls. A tiled-roofed arched gateway with wrought iron gates linking the dor...
Photograph

Special Machine Tool Shop

Date: 06 02 1942
Description: Original caption reads: "Walter R. Hallberg, superintendent of Harvester's special machine tool shop, inspects a rebuilt milling machine placed in operatin...
Manuscript

Roosevelt Letter to John Cudahy

Date: 03 09 1938
Description: Confidential letter from President Franklin Roosevelt to United States Minister to Ireland, John Cudahy, on White House stationery regarding events in Engl...
Photograph

Old Abe

Date: 
Description: Side view of Old Abe perched on a shield with the American flag painted on it. The words "Old Abe" are printed at the bottom. Authenticity of this image d...
Print

Trademark Logo for Jack Penewell's Guitars

Date: 1930
Description: Logo submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Jack Penewell's Original, Twin Six, Talking Steel Guitar." An image of a steel guitar...
Photograph

Worker at Milwaukee Public Library

Date: 1958
Description: Construction worker at a conference on economic problems at the Milwaukee Public Library. The subject is Albert Pearson.
Photograph

Young Woman on a Corner

Date: 1916
Description: Girl standing on a small town street corner.
Photograph

The Honey Plants of California

Date: 
Description: Bouquet of seven different honey plants found in California. A guide is written on the bottom of the image: 1. Wild Horehound 2. Wild Buckwheat 3. Hybrid S...
Book or Pamphlet

C. Aultman & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1883
Description: C. Aultman & Co. catalog cover and back cover. On the front is a shock of wheat, a bird and a butterfly, and on the bottom a farm landscape. On the back co...

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