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Portrait of Miss Knutson with Permanent Wave

Date: 12 07 1927
Description: Portrait of Miss Knutson with a permanent wave in her hair.
Photograph

Carol Cochems Seated at Desk-Chair

Date: 10 08 1946
Description: Pinafore-clad Carol Cochems, holding a pencil, with ringlets and a bow in her hair, reads in deep concentration at a desk-chair invented by H.M. Wood.
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Osborne line of farm implements. Features a chromolithograph with a mosaic of a woman w...
Postcard

William Howard Taft, Our Next President

Date: 1908
Description: Portrait of William Howard Taft, used in his 1908 presidential election campaign. Caption reads: "William Howard Taft, Our Next President."
Photograph

Assembly Work

Date: 1950
Description: A woman looks over parts used as bases for miniature Christmas trees.
Photograph

Tinkering with the Car

Date: 
Description: A man shows two teenagers the intricacies of what is under the hood of the family car.
Photograph

Della Royal and Horse

Date: 1906
Description: Della Royal (Mrs. Rhoda Royal) sits in a 2-wheeled cart decorated with flowers and harnessed to her world famous horse, "Glendive," as taken from a 1906 ha...
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

Politician with Menominee Indians

Date: 1959
Description: Wisconsin State Senator Alfred A. Laun (R.) of Kiel, participating in what appears to be a square dance with Menominee Indians and others. This image is pa...
Print

John Adams

Date: 
Description: Engraving of John Adams with an inset of "M. Tallyrand Receiving the American Envoys, 1797."
Photograph

Young "Girl" in Curls

Date: 11 1938
Description: A young boy sits while getting his hair curled with an electric curling iron. According to an article that appeared in the January 9, 1939 Life maga...
Photograph

Pneumatic Tube System

Date: 1890
Description: A worker stands next to a pneumatic tube communication system used at the Milwaukee Electric, Railway, and Light Company.
Photograph

Woman at Screen Door

Date: 1976
Description: Woman looking out from behind a screen door, leaning on the door.
Photograph

Doing Dishes

Date: 1920
Description: A woman washing dishes outdoors in a washtub.
Photograph

Kern Family at the Supper Table

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: The Kern family, Edna, Nancy, Ernest, and Maribeth, at the supper table.
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire

Date: 1952
Description: Margaret McGuire, named the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948, promotes Wisconsin cheese.
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

Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire

Date: 1948
Description: Margaret McGuire, the 1948 Alice in Dairyland, stands next to a Wisconsin Central Airlines airplane with Governor Oscar Rennebohm and another man.
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland Dress Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: A sketch of the winning dress designed by Betty Lou Jahn of Milwaukee for the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948. Not only was the design worn by the first A...

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