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Family Outside of One-Story House

Date: 1898
Description: Eight people posing in front of a one-story clapboard house holding possessions. The man on the far left is holding a gun and wears a ammunition belt aroun...
Postcard

Studio Portrait of Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of three men smoking pipes and cigars and holding beer bottles in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, Jacob Bowar, Herman Kals...
Photograph

Ernest Thierstein in his Swiss Chalet Home

Date: 03 01 1949
Description: Ernest Thierstein relaxing in his Swiss-style chalet home in New Glarus. He came from the village of Boviel in the Emmental valley in the canton of Bern, S...
Photograph

National Confederate Reunion

Date: 1917
Description: Three Confederate veterans sitting in a tent at the National Confederate Reunion.
Photograph

Isham Family

Date: 1898
Description: Ira Robinson Isham family at the Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation. From left to right: Isham's son-in-law, Isham, his daughter, and Indian medicine m...
Photograph

Willms Cigar Factory, Milwaukee

Date: 1896
Description: Workers at the Willms cigar factory, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, posing with cigars and cigar boxes. Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917) sits on the far left with six c...
Photograph

Group in front of Log Cabin

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Description: A woman (seated) and four men pose in front of a log building with a tree stump in the foreground. One man is holding a rifle, and is also holding a dog on...
Postcard

Two Men Playing Cards with Donkey

Date: 1930
Description: In a studio "gag" portrait, two men sit at a table playing cards in front of a painted backdrop. Both are showing their hands and smoking cigars. Each man ...
Postcard

Portrait of Three Men

Date: 1930
Description: Full-length studio portrait of three men in front of a painted backdrop. Two men are standing on either side of a man in the middle who is sitting in a cha...
Postcard

Two Men Drinking

Date: 1930
Description: Studio portrait of two men, seated at a small table drinking. They are dressed in suits and each man is smoking a cigar. The man on the right is wearing a ...
Postcard

Two Men Seated at a Table

Date: 1930
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two men seated at a table looking at each other. They are both wearing suits. The man on the left is smok...
Postcard

Group Seated on Porch

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Description: Two men and one woman are seated on a porch. The men are smoking cigars. Two children can be seen standing behind the screen door behind them.
Photograph

People Posing in Yard of Frame House

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Description: Man and woman posing sitting, and two men and two young girls standing, along with a dog in a yard in front of a frame house with a porch. Farm buildings a...
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Editorial Staff of the Milwaukee Journal

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Description: Two men sitting at desks in the editorial room of the Milwaukee Journal. The room was decorated by a newspaper staff artist. At left, the balcony sc...
Photograph

Group of Adults on Porch

Date: 1902
Description: Group portrait of nine men and two women seated on a porch. A few of the men are holding cigars, and both of the women are holding umbrellas.
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Men With Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of three men smoking pipes and cigars and holding beer bottles in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, Jacob Bowar, Herman Kals...
Photograph

Portrait of Mr. Spangenberg

Date: 1910
Description: Informal portrait of “Mr. Spangenberg, RR bridge tender”, sitting in the sun with his dog on his lap, talking and pointing. He is wearing a hat and has a p...
Photograph

Unkempt Man

Date: 1910
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a seated, unkempt man with a pipe in his mouth.
Book or Pamphlet

Old Settlers' Club Banquet Menu

Date: 02 22 1908
Description: Front cover and menu page of the annual banquet for the Old Settlers' Club. On the top left of the cover is an oval portrait of club president George Willi...
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Smoking Pipes

Date: 12 26 1906
Description: Alexander Krueger, August Krueger, and Henry Bigalk sitting on the front porch smoking pipes. August is sitting on a chair holding the bag of tobacco, whil...

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