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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 ...
Photograph

African American Tenant Farmers at Barbecue

Date: 02 22 1915
Description: African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing...
Photograph

Locomotive No. 539

Date: 1882
Description: View across railroad tracks of two men posing near the right side of locomotive no. 539 on another set of railroad tracks. The locomotive was built by the ...
Photograph

Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin

Date: 09 26 1951
Description: Wisconsin State Journal sports columnist, Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin and "character about town" relaxes on a park bench.
Photograph

Charles Dietz and Helene Stratman-Thomas

Date: 09 02 1946
Description: Charles Dietz, a singer of English ballads, and song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas.
Photograph

Singer Truck

Date: 1937
Description: A man carrying a box exits the passenger side of an International D-2 panel truck used by the Singer Sewing Machine Company. The text on the box reads: "Si...
Photograph

Muir Knoll Dedication Ceremony

Date: 06 18 1918
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 ...
Photograph

When the President Comes to Town

Date: 1979
Description: Congressman David Obey introduces a local resident (back to camera), to President Jimmy Carter. Many photographers stand around the edge of the group and a...
Photograph

Obama and Obey

Date: 
Description: Congressman David R. Obey and President Barack Obama in the Oval Office in the White House. The photograph is autographed for Obey: "Congratulations for 40...
Photograph

Carl Sandburg Poses with Two Guides

Date: 06 06 1953
Description: Carl Sandburg posing with two of the guides at Wade house during his visit to the restored stagecoach inn for its dedication as a historic site. Speaking a...
Postcard

The Pyramid Supper Club

Date: 1960
Description: Colorized postcard view of bartenders and group of people at an Egyptian-themed cocktail bar, the Pyramid Supper Club, in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 615-622

Date: 
Description: An unhappy majority
some of whom voted for frivolous reasons
reflected the north/south split

In their nascent paranoia, they preached their vi...
Photograph

At the Auction

Date: 05 1978
Description: Photographer Edgar Mueller, "Corny" Weber, and auctioneer Ken Schoebel check out an old Weber Beer Bottle.
Photograph

Wilbur Cohen with President Johnson in the Oval Office

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Description: Wilbur J. Cohen is with President Lyndon Johnson and two others of the President's economic advisors in the Oval Office of the White House.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Mrs. Rose Kennedy

Date: 11 24 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Sen. Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy, brother of the late president, escorts his mother, Mrs. Rose Kennedy fro...
Photograph

Ferdinand Hotz in Office

Date: 1895
Description: A young Ferdinand Hotz sits behind a large desk in his Chicago office. There is an art print and a framed collection of moths and butterflies on the wall b...
Photograph

Arthur J. Altmeyer

Date: 1963
Description: Arthur J. Altmeyer standing in front of the Social Security Administration Headquarters. In 1973 the building was renamed the Altmeyer Building in his hono...
Photograph

Boss of the Year

Date: 1956
Description: James C. Springer of Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Co. surrounded by members of the Milwaukee chapter of the National Secretaries' Association who had electe...
Photograph

Rex Magnus Club Entertainment

Date: 10 09 1887
Description: Posed group portrait outdoors of members of the Rex Magnus Club and representatives of the “Press of the United States” whom they are entertaining.
Photograph

Young Lumber Mechanics

Date: 1921
Description: Group portrait of timber mechanics outdoors at the Forest Products Laboratory.

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