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Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 01 1901
Description: Lithograph cover illustration in a mosaic styled design for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog of a woman holding a miniature McCormick grain...
Print

Milwaukee Harvester Company Advertising Card

Date: 1894
Description: Advertising card for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a chromolithograph illustration of a woman holding a tree branch.
Print

The Favored Captive

Date: 1844
Description: A young woman looks out her arched window with a bird cage hanging outdoors.
Photograph

Woman and Infant

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a woman sitting and holding an infant on her lap. The woman is wearing a dark dress, glasses, a large hat with flowers on it, and silve...
Photograph

Winnebago Indian Woman

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Description: View of a Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indian woman in traditional dress. The woman stands on stone steps, surrounded by flowers and trees.
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My Valentine

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Description: Valentine's Day card showing a male bird standing on a tree branch with a top hat, cane and bouquet of flowers. To the right is a female bird wearing a hat...
Postcard

Ethelinda Johnston with her sister, niece, and friend

Date: 1913
Description: From left to right are Emma (Thorsen) Purchas (1862-1944), Ida Fisk, Ethelinda (Thorsen) Johnston (1856-1947) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Dorothy Purchas ...
Photograph

Harry Hilliard and Theda Bara in "Romeo and Juliet"

Date: 1916
Description: Romeo (played by Harry Hilliard), on his knees, clasps Juliet's (Theda Bara) hand in a romantic scene still in the Fox production "Romeo and Juliet" (Fox 1...
Postcard

Two Children Outdoors

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Description: Two children pose outdoors in the corner of a yard next to a building. They are sitting on tricycles or pushbikes, one has an owl logo on the front. Both a...
Photograph

Indigenous Woman Poses with NATS Crew

Date: 03 02 1945
Description: An indigenous woman poses with NATS (Naval Air Transport Service) crew on Ella Island, Tarawa Atoll, in the South Pacific. She is wearing a flowered lava l...
Photograph

Robert Doyle and Indigenous Man

Date: 01 07 1943
Description: Text attached to a print made from the negative reads, "This photo of me with a Papuan native carrier was made near Buna early in January. This fellow with...
Photograph

Group of Women in Front of a Fence

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Description: Four women posing standing together near water. Behind them is a fence angled steeply on a bank covered with foliage.
Photograph

Wedding Portrait

Date: 06 19 1928
Description: Wedding portrait of Mr. and Mrs. E. Randall Sears posed on front porch steps. On June 19, 1928 Catherine McCaffrey married E. Randall Sears at the Christ ...
Print

Columbia Chilled Plows Advertising Card

Date: 1881
Description: Chromolithograph card featuring an illustration of a man (or boy) perched barefoot on a rope ladder at the edge of a balcony. He is trying to kiss the woma...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Covers

Date: 1897
Description: The left side (front cover) features a color illustration of a woman in a red dress who is holding up branches, and is wearing two gold colored bangles on ...
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of the Twins

Date: 1903
Description: Outdoor portrait of Jennie and Edgar Krueger standing in front of the side of a house. Jennie is wearing a pocket watch in her front pocket with the chain ...
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of Krueger Family

Date: 1903
Description: Outdoor portrait of Florentina Krueger sitting in a chair with her two children, Jennie and Edgar Krueger, standing on either side of her. A book is lying ...
Photograph

Krueger Outdoor Family Portrait

Date: 1908
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Alexander Kruger family. Alexander and Florentina are standing in between their two children, Jennie and Edgar, next to a hou...
Photograph

Tillie Timmel Reading the Newspaper

Date: 1908
Description: Tille Timmel, Florentina's cousin, sitting in a chair, outdoors, reading the newspaper. A large potted plant is sitting next to her.
Photograph

Sarah Krueger Outdoor Portrait

Date: 1908
Description: Outdoor portrait of Sarah Krueger standing next to a house with ivy.

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