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Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of George Byron Merrick (1841-1931) of the 30th Wisconsin Infantry. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
Date: | 1929 |
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Description: | Advertising folder for Deering 10-20 and 15-30 tractors, showing an Arab man in the foreground and tractors at work in the background. Printed for Algiers,... |
Date: | 1868 |
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Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Charles A. White (1826-1910), an American geologist and paleontologist. White was the State geologist of Iowa in 1866-70, and a... |
Date: | 1867 |
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Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of B.K. Emerson (1837-1928), professor of Minerology and Geology at Amherst College. Handwritten inscription at the bottom reads, ... |
Date: | 07 21 1949 |
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Description: | Madison and University of Wisconsin artists carried off the major share of the prizes and awards in the 1949 Gimbel Brothers art competition. Seated, left... |
Date: | 10 23 1978 |
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Description: | Jack A. Smith, managing editor of the "Guardian," a weekly radical newspaper. Smith's admiration for Chinese communism is suggested by the decorations on h... |
Date: | 06 18 1918 |
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Description: | Dedication ceremony for Muir Knoll on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Judge Milton S. Griswold is speaking at flag-draped podium, and a ... |
Date: | 1969 |
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Description: | Roberto Hernandez (left) and Esequiel Guzman (center) work on the layout of "La Guardia" newspaper. The underground bilingual newspaper was published in Sp... |
Date: | 01 09 1913 |
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Description: | A man is lying in bed, covered to his chin in bedding and propped up by pillows. On the right side of the bed is a large bible and a rosary. The room is ri... |
Date: | 12 01 1961 |
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Description: | Front cover and menu listing from a party given on the occasion of Rex Stout's 75th birthday, with a drawing of Stout's head by Austin Briggs, who illustra... |
Date: | 09 07 1959 |
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Description: | Marine Corps reserve unit adviser, Major E.G. Usher, is shown at his desk. Usher was in the news because he advised a change from a separate effort to help... |
Date: | 11 23 2006 |
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Description: | One-page menu for a five-course Thanksgiving dinner at The Beard House prepared by L’Etoile, with the restaurant logo and a background head and shoulders i... |
Date: | 02 22 1899 |
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Description: | Front cover and menu page of the Old Settlers' Club annual banquet, with a man wielding an axe and chopping down a tree. A log cabin stands in the woods be... |
Date: | 10 1984 |
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Description: | Paul Vanderbilt, the curator emeritus of Iconographic collections at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, poses in front of one of his Thematic Panel... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Three-quarter-length drawing of Thomas Kidd speaking and gesturing. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | This advertisement features drawings of Shakespeare's Seven Ages beginning at the top left with: 'The Infant — "Perdita" Winter's Tale,' 'The Schoolboy — "... |
Date: | 02 1977 |
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Description: | A man is kneeling on the ice and snow at Potter's Lake. He is running a machine that is testing the oxygen levels in the water, while recording the results... |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Stereograph of librarian Daniel S. Durrie seated in the two-story high gallery that the Historical Society occupied in the old South Wing of the Wisconsin ... |
Date: | 1975 |
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Description: | The Reverend Jesse Jackson gesturing while sitting at his desk in the PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) headquarters. In the background, on the wall, ... |
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