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Loggers in Bateaux

Date: 1900
Description: Log driving crew on river in five bateaux. In the background on the left is a bridge.
Book or Pamphlet

Lawson Aircraft Ad

Date: 1918
Description: Advertisement for Lawson Aircraft during the period when the company was based in Green Bay and developing a military trainer. Lawson built several planes...
Photograph

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1900
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a Milwaukee grain binder and a young...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman, Miller and Company Catalog

Date: 1901
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Aultman, Miller and Company, Buckeye brand. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of children dresse...
Photograph

Iowa County Court House

Date: 1940
Description: View across street towards cars parked in front of the Iowa County Court House.
Photograph

Card Punch Machines

Date: 11 23 1968
Description: New punch card machines installed in city hall are put to use.
Photograph

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

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.
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 ...
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...
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.

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