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Charles McCarthy in his Office

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Description: Charles McCarthy writing at his desk in his office.
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Thwaites' Office

Date: 1897
Description: Reuben Gold Thwaites, secretary of the State Historical Society, at his desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Thwaites succeeded Lym...
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General Augustus Gaylord at Table

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Description: General Augustus Gaylord (seated right), the Adjutant-General of Wisconsin. Caption reads: "Quotas and Credits."
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Studio Portrait of Man with Luggage

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Description: A studio portrait of a man who is posing standing with one leg resting on luggage and holding a pencil and a bill pad in front of a painted backdrop. He is...
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Robert Bloch

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Description: A rare "straight" portrait of author and Gauer friend Robert Bloch, which was taken for a series Gauer called "how they looked then."
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The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword

Date: 1893
Description: Full-length studio photograph of Louis Brosemer wearing a suit and hat. He is standing before a United States flag holding an oversized pen as though it wa...
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VA Hospital Patients Win Short Story Contest

Date: 02 24 1954
Description: Luida Sanders (right), a "writer's aide" and a state public health educator, presents first and second prizes to two writers and patients at the Madison V...
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Fidel Castro and Celia Sanchez, Oriente Province

Date: 1958
Description: Informal meeting in the woods in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro is reclining on a hammock talking to a crouching man in the for...
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Fidel Castro and Celia Sanchez, Oriente Province

Date: 1958
Description: Informal meeting in the woods in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. An unidentified man is crouching in the foreground, Fidel Castro reclines on...
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Raúl Castro, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: Raúl Castro is smoking a cigarette and leaning towards someone writing in a notebook during the Cuban Revolution. Vilma Espin and probably Celia Sanchez ar...
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Man on Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1895
Description: Side view of a man sitting on a horse-drawn mower in a field. The man on the mower is writing on a piece of paper. Another man wearing a bow tie is sitting...
Manuscript

15th Wisconsin Infantry Regimental Flag

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Description: Drawing of older gentleman presenting the regimental flag of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry, presumably at a Grand Army of the Republic meeting. The image is ...
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Writers on Social Questions

Date: 12 1900
Description: A composite of photographs of "writers on social questions". Pictured are 1. Henry D. Lloyd 2. Richard T. Ely 3. Benjamin Kidd 4. Rev. George D. Herron 5. ...
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Frame 30: Man Learning to Read and Write

Date: 1964
Description: A man is seated at a desk, writing and smoking a cigarette.
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The History of Wisconsin Poster

Date: 1893
Description: John Fawcett Tyrrell, handwriting expert and documents examiner of Milwaukee, standing at left of an illuminated poster, ten feet high, entitled "The Histo...
Print

Gridiron Club Sixty-Fifth Birthday Menu

Date: 05 13 1950
Description: Menu, mounted on board, for the sixty-fifth birthday dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by Jim (James Thomas) Berryman of Father Time carrying a s...
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August Krueger Sitting at a Writing Table

Date: 1910
Description: August Krueger is sitting at a writing table writing on a note pad. A bottle of ink is sitting open on the table.
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Taking Oxygen Samples

Date: 02 1977
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...

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