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| Description: | She didn't quite make clear what we were going to find when we got here on the outer edge of worry It wasn't Chinamen and it wasn't wild rice A ha... |
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| Description: | Unkind to speak of the ancestral vocabulary as dream-talk, unkind to wake the dreamer |
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| Description: | Although they remembered everything that could not be tolerated, their better natures, surfacing through waves of church-worn care, prevailed over... |
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| Description: | A seance robe worn by Louise Parke during her work as a Spiritualist in Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | A banjo-ukulele with the words "Oh, I Wish I Were... An Oscar Mayer Wiener..." on the body of the instrument. It was used by Richard Trentlage in the first... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Neal Harrington was assigned to the American Expeditionary Forces in October 1918. He was sent to France with the 20th Engineering Corp as a 2nd lieutenant... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Seven yarn samples from St. Paul Knitting Works, dated between April 7, 1888 and February 21, 1889, affixed to a page in an Appleton Woolen Mills sample bo... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Colorful patterned wool fabric in an Appleton Woolen Mills sample book. |
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| Description: | This is a Polish paper cutting, an art form known as wycinanki, featuring a floral/flower design. |
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| Description: | The keyboard of the first practical typewriter, developed by Christopher Latham Sholes of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and marketed in 1874. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album, displaying chevrons earned at camp, and the Joy Camps logo. Three different chevrons are included, a single, a double... |
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| Description: | Overhead view of a top hat made from beaver felt, worn by Green Bay resident Morgan L. Martin. |
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| Description: | The frayed edge of a top hat made from beaver felt, worn by Green Bay resident Morgan L. Martin. |
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| Description: | View of the inside of a top hat made from beaver felt, worn by Green Bay resident Morgan L. Martin. The maker's label reads: "Orel Cook, Rutland, Vt." |
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| Description: | That morning is adrift in passing; it cannot last the day. Those years are anchored to each other; there is no other way. |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view of a lightweight wool dress cut from a shawl, in cream, rust and indigo paisley with a black center. The paisley has a bird-of-paradise ... |
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| Description: | The tattered remains of a processing envelope from The Photoart House. Handwritten on the envelope is "Ice Machine, 111, 893," "Schoelkopf, 210 E Wash Ave.... |
| Date: | 02 12 1946 |
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| Description: | Identification papers of Hans E. Skott, an officer with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. His title was "Registered Agricultural... |
| Date: | 09 24 1945 |
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| Description: | The identification card of Signe S. (Skott) Cooper, 1st Lt., ANC. (First Lieutenant, Army Nurse Corps.) The card was issued SEP 25 1945. Her photograph is ... |
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