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Dobby's Cosmo Club

Date: 07 16 1943
Description: Dobby's Cosmo Club, owned by John C. Dobson, Route 1, Mendota, Wisconsin, interior view of the bar showing liquor bottles and three World War II servicemen...
Photograph

Colonel Samuel Stone

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Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Colonel Samuel Stone (1798-1876), Massachusetts-born Union Colonel. Before his army service, Stone's various occupati...
Print

Matthew Fontaine Maury, Scientist and Historian

Date: 1855
Description: Engraved portrait of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873) American astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and ...
Photograph

Amasa Cobb in Uniform

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Description: Portrait of Amasa Cobb seated, wearing his military unform.
Photograph

Dicky Chapelle in Iwo Okinawa

Date: 1945
Description: Dicky Chapelle gazing into the distance, during her Iwo Okinawa period. She is wearing her War Correspondent uniform with hat. Possibly with camera slung o...
Photograph

Dicky Chapelle in Iwo Okinawa

Date: 1945
Description: Dicky Chapelle gazing into the distance, during her Iwo Okinawa period. She is wearing her War Correspondent uniform with hat. Possibly with camera slung o...
Painting

Stephen Vaughn Shipman

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Description: Oil portrait, life-size, of Col. Stephen V. Shipman, of Chicago.
Photograph

Female Marine Engineer

Date: 02 1945
Description: Private first class Ann D. Dozier, a refrigerating engineer from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, posing for a photograph at the Mauna Loa R...
Photograph

Francis Scott Key

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Description: Vignetted portrait of Francis Scott Key, author of the poem that inspired "The Star Spangled Banner". The poem was written while he was on a ship in Baltim...
Print

Francis Scott Key, Cigar Box Label

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Description: Lithographic print of portrait of Francis Scott Key. In the background is the sheet music for the Star Spangled Banner, and an American flag.
Photograph

William P. Lyon

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Description: Waist-up portrait of William Penn Lyon, a Wisconsin attorney, state legislator, and State Supreme Court justice (1871-1894). During the Civil War William P...
Photograph

Lieutenant Gray

Date: 1918
Description: Seated portrait of Lieutenant Gray from Company C of the 310th United States Engineer Corps, in uniform posed at a desk.
Book or Pamphlet

Press Club of Chicago Dinner Menu

Date: 05 02 1902
Description: Front cover and first two pages of the menu and program for a dinner honoring newspaperman Opie Read. There is a tipped-in drawing of Read on the cover, dr...

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