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Poster

Health and Safety Poster on Athletic Clubs

Date: 1916
Description: Poster or signboard titled: "Athletic Clubs - Work and Play Develop the Right Kind of Men." Images on the poster show International Harvester employees on ...
Poster

Health and Safety Poster Illustrating Employee Lunch Rooms

Date: 1916
Description: Poster or signboard with the title: "Lunch Rooms - A Clean and Neat Place to Eat: Makes Food More Palatable." Includes images of lunch rooms or cafeterias ...
Photograph

Dr. John Maynard Woodworth in Fur Clothing

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Dr. John Maynard Woodworth (1837-1879), an American physician and naturalist who is shown in a Russian-American fur trapper's c...
Photograph

Theodatus Garlick, Sculptor and Plastic Surgeon

Date: 1872
Description: Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of Theodatus Garlick (1805-1884), American surgeon and sculptor. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Garlick was one of th...
Photograph

Staged Scene of Dying Man

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Description: An actor playing a dying or dead man surrounded by a small group of people, including men, women and children. The image was staged at Harry Dankoler's pho...
Photograph

Lucius J. Dixon

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Description: Three-quarter length carte-de-visite portrait of Lucius J. Dixon, surgeon for the 1st Wisconsin Infantry.
Photograph

Officials and Employees of the Wisconsin State Administration

Date: 1888
Description: Group portrait of officials and employees of the Wisconsin state administration, who made up Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk's "one-armed and one-legged" staff o...
Photograph

Tuberculosis Association Christmas Seals

Date: 11 09 1953
Description: Mrs. Del (Gerd) Myren, a tuberculosis patient at Lake View Sanatorium, develops a print in a darkroom with equipment purchased with money from the Christma...
Postcard

A Girl and Boy Dressed as Nurse and Soldier

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a girl dressed as a nurse and a boy dressed as a soldier standing in front of a painted backdrop. He holds a rifle and she i...
Postcard

Man and Young Girl

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Charles Faust, seated in a chair, holding Lynne Faust Hilgers on his lap. He is wearing a shi...
Photograph

Woman with Cane and Two Girls — Double Negative

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Description: On left: Woman posed sitting in a chair and holding a cane in the yard of a house, probably Mrs. Hassel Phillips. On right: Studio portrait of two young gi...
Photograph

Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Nurse Marie Holt adjusting the new X-ray machine over a patient lying on the table, while Selma Haase, in the right foreground, is waiting to take a pictur...
Photograph

Eleanor Holt in the Hospital

Date: 01 27 1919
Description: Eleanor Holt is lying in her hospital bed at Henrotin Memorial Hospital. Her left leg, under the bed sheet, appears to be elevated. There are several frame...

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