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Description: | Five members of the 1st Wisconsin Infantry, Company C, who enlisted in 1861, were captured at the Battle of Chickamauga, and escaped together from a Confed... |
Date: | 1979 |
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Description: | Two men enjoy coffee and a cigarette at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. At this time cigarette smoking in Madison restaurants took place i... |
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Description: | Tintype (ferrotype), studio portrait of two men in a boat in front of a painted backdrop. |
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Description: | Tintype (ferrotype) of two men in a studio holding white hats. |
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Description: | Santa Claus talks on a telephone at a Christmas display at Manchester's Department Store. |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Stereograph of the Dalles and the Saint Croix River, with one man in the center foreground sitting posing on a rock and looking to the left. On the far lef... |
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Description: | A staged scene depicting men poised with weapons pointed at a hodag, a mythical beast, who has attacked a child. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Holiday postcard with a young woman driving an open automobile with Santa Claus in the back, who is holding gifts in his left hand. He is wearing a red sui... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Holiday postcard depicting the traditional St. Nicholas figure garbed in a long purple fur-trimmed robe, red fur-trimmed hat and boots. He is pushing a whe... |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | Photomontage of Santa Claus and his reindeer riding on the top wing of a bi-plane. More sacks of toys and wrapped gifts are on the lower wing. Buildings an... |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | Santa Claus riding in the gondola of an airship with his load of toys. The illustration by Louis Fancher appeared on the December 22, 1906, issue of Ridge... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Advertising greeting card which reads "Handsome Christmas Card in Every package of Lion Coffee, November 5 to Christmas Day." The card depicts Santa Claus ... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Framed view of the Captain Samuel Fowler house, with a couple posed outside. Caption reads: "J.E. Eggleston, Princeton, Wis." |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Polish immigrant standing near a team of horses eating hay in Market Square. He is wearing work clothes. Large brick buildings are in the background. |
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Description: | Henry Hamilton Bennett poling his boat close along a rock formation in the Wisconsin Dells. |
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Description: | View of group posing on the lawn in front of a two-story frame house. Four men in the background on the left are standing near two teams of horses; three m... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Construction workers are posed in front of the partially-built St. Josaphat's Church on scaffolding and wooden steps near large columns. There are two chil... |
Date: | 11 08 1900 |
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Description: | Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor, Diocese of Fund du Lac. Three Bishops seated, l to r: Bishop Nicholson of Milwaukee; Bishop Grafton of F... |
Date: | 1897 |
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Description: | Thomas B. Jeffery, founder of the Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha in 1902. Before that Jeffery produced several experimental automobiles, including th... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Automobile alleged to be the first coupe built in Wisconsin. The vehicle was built by Gus Wilkie of Sheboygan from the body of a carriage and the chassis f... |
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