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American Inventors

Date: 1900
Description: Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio...
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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ...
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Wisconsin Senate

Date: 1862
Description: Composite of photographs of the members of the Wisconsin Senate of 1862. At the top is a depiction of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Banner in center top rea...
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Wisconsin Senate

Date: 1862
Description: Composite of photographs of the Wisconsin Senate of 1862. At the top is a depiction of the Wisconsin State Capitol framed by two draped U.S. Flags. Below t...
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Henry Elston Family

Date: 1937
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Henry Elston Family of Muscoda, with a dog sitting in the foreground. According to US censuses they are from left to right: M...
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Silver Wedding of Sherwin and Emma Gillett

Date: 1931
Description: Group portrait on the lawn in front of a porch at the 25th Wedding Anniversary of Sherwin and Emma Gillett. Sherwin and Emma are standing on the left. Thei...
Postcard

"Buckwheat Cakes and Honey" Music Postcard

Date: 1907
Description: Music and lyrics to "Buckwheat Cakes and Honey." Portraits of Eugene Secor and George W. Work are at left and right at the top. In the center is an illustr...
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Apiary Tent Display

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Description: Three men and a boy standing outside a tent with a sign reading "Apiary." Beekeeping supplies, including hives and frames are displayed inside and outside ...
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Wisconsin State Bee Keepers Association Membership Certificate

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Description: Wisconsin State Bee Keepers Association membership certificate, signed by N.E. France Association President. No. 148. Illustrations of clover flowers and b...
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Artwork of Insects with Human Faces

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Description: Print of seven insects and one mammal with human faces. Scientific names printed beneath each image. "Melanoplus differentialis" grasshopper, "Eurypelma he...
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Railroad Employees Posed on Donkeys

Date: 1906
Description: Employees of the Milwaukee Road at Happy Hollow. Left to right: engineers Fred Brown, John J. Rigney, William Wall, William H. Fetherston, and conductors J...
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Professor Rasmus B. Anderson at Home

Date: 1902
Description: Professor Rasmus B. Anderson, noted authority on Scandinavian affairs, with Karema Anderson and his son Rolf, with dog “Ned”, in their home.
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Portrait of John Wiggin and Muskie

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of European American man posed standing. He is holding up in his right hand a fishing pole, tree branch, and...
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The Day's Catch

Date: 1904
Description: Group portrait of men and boys standing in front of two houses all holding a long stringer of fish. Three women are standing in the yard in the background....
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Record Breaking Catch

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Description: Group portrait of five local youth showing off a record breaking catch of thirty large Carp hanging on a stringer. Town elders, all men, pose in the backgr...
Book or Pamphlet

Planet Jr. Implement Catalogue Cover

Date: 1890
Description: Cover of the Planet Jr. catalog. Features an illustration of a man and young girl (about 5 or 6 years old) in a garden pushing a Planet Jr. Garden Drill to...
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Gridiron Club Menu Art Souvenir

Date: 12 11 1948
Description: Two cartoons (by Clifford K. Berryman?) for the winter dinner of the Gridiron Club, each entitled, "Gridiron Forecast 1948": one of Thomas Dewey holding a ...
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Deering Harvester Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1900
Description: Both sides of a Deering advertising card in English and French. One side has an illustration of a man wearing a suit riding on an Ideal Mower drawn by a te...
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Four Friends and a Dog in a Tent

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Description: Arnold Gesell (2nd from left) and three friends posing in the open doorway of a tent, with a dog resting in the grass. The men are wearing trousers, shirts...
Book or Pamphlet

Cleaning Fish

Date: 1900
Description: Herman Riebe, Alexander Krueger, and an unidentified man are kneeling next to a pile of fish they are cleaning. All the men are holding several of the fish...

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