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Ebenezer Brigham

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Ebenezer Brigham.
Photograph

Female Curling Team

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Description: A female curling team poses with their brooms and stones for a portrait.
Photograph

Kessenich's Clothing Model

Date: 08 10 1938
Description: Model standing on box wearing hat and coat, carrying gloves and purse. Part of a fashion series from Kessenich's Ready to Wear, 201-203 State Street, showi...
Photograph

Singers Reading "The Capital Times"

Date: 08 19 1931
Description: Three women of "The Singing Sinners," a vaudeville act at the Orpheum Theater, are reading "The Capitol Times" serial story "Guilty Lips," in their dressin...
Photograph

Native Americans near Keshena

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Description: Native Americans on the Menominee Reservation near Keshena, Wisconsin. A white man in the foreground appears to be drawing something out of camera range. T...
Photograph

Chief Oshkosh Remembrance

Date: 05 25 1926
Description: Menominee Indians eating lunch together on Chief Oshkosh Day, May 25, 1926, "the occasion of the removal of the chief's remains from an unmarked grave besi...
Photograph

Helene Stratman-Thomas and Two Women

Date: 08 10 1946
Description: A group portrait of three women. (l to r) Song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas, Mrs. Kamma Grumstrup, a singer of old ballads in Danish, and possibly Beri...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Thomas Thunder and Wife

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Thomas Thunder (HoonkHaGaKah) (Son of [WaConChaKah] John Thunder aka Dr. Thunder and [WeHonPeKaw] Lucy Bear, Thunder), and h...
Photograph

Woman Seated in Touring Car

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Description: A woman dressed for winter weather and seated in the back of a touring car, looks coyly at the photographer. She is surrounded by holiday gifts and package...
Photograph

Keyes Family Children

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Joseph, Kate, and William, the three children of Madison attorney, postmaster, and Republican Party boss Elisha W. Keyes and hi...
Photograph

Tom Hayden

Date: 1964
Description: Tom Hayden talking to two African-American women on house steps. The woman in the center is Terry Jefferson (as identified by Hayden).
Photograph

Zilphia Horton

Date: 1948
Description: Zilphia Horton, smiling.
Photograph

Little Boy in Curls

Date: 1912
Description: Reginald Jackson, Jr. is posed on the sidewalk in front of the family home, 415 North Carroll Street, dressed in his winter coat. The portrait is notable f...
Photograph

Man Seated on Motorcycle

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A biker wearing a long dark coat, a headband, and sunglasses sits on a motorcycle with an unusual metal backrest. A man and a woman are standing next to hi...
Photograph

Nichols School Fourth Graders Visit Classmate in Hospital

Date: 10 11 1950
Description: Fourth graders at Nichols School, Monona, visit their classmate, Burt Fernstrom of 5124 Winnequah Road, who is a patient at St. Mary's Hospital. Standing l...
Photograph

Self-Portrait of Photographer

Date: 1930
Description: The photographer doffs his hat and smiles at the camera. He is wearing a long coat and gloves, and carries a cane.
Postcard

Studio Portrait of a Woman

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait of a smiling woman sitting in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a coat and has short, curly hair.
Photograph

Robert A. Taft

Date: 1952
Description: Robert A. Taft outdoors shaking hands in a crowd after giving a speech in the Municipal Building during his campaign. He was ultimately unsuccessful in his...
Photograph

Carol Bank and Barb (Flint?) Diggs

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Description: Carol Bank (left) and Barb (Flint?) Diggs, friends of Lewis Arms, sit together smoking cigarettes.
Print

Happy Holidays

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Description: Color photographic holiday card from Governor and Mrs. Earl and family, governor of Wisconsin, 1983-1987. To the right it reads: "Happy Holidays" with "The...

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