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"Buffalo Bill" Cody

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Description: Postcard reproduction of a portrait of William Frederick Cody from the T.B. Walker Collection.
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Tall-tale Postcard: The Buck Fever

Date: 1910
Description: Two men are hunting with rifles in the Wisconsin woods. It is winter; there is snow on the ground. Instead of shooting a deer, one hunter shoots a giant ...
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Tall-tale Postcard: A Good Bag

Date: 1910
Description: Two hunters, rifles in hand, transport the giant rabbits they have killed homeward. They have tied the rabbits to a wooden pole, which they rested between...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Out for Air

Date: 1923
Description: Two police officers holding rifles escort two prisoners into a paddywagon. Lining the road is a long, perspective view of an outdoor prison. Red text impri...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Rabbits Are Scarce

Date: 1909
Description: Rear view of a hunter hauling away a giant rabbit through a snowy forest landscape. He is wearing a leather jacket with fringe and boots. Text in the lower...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Hunting Rabbits

Date: 1909
Description: Photomontage of three hunters surrounded by a large group of giant rabbits in the woods. One of the hunters is in the act of shooting a rabbit. The snowy s...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Salted

Date: 1909
Description: Photomontage of a hunter pouring salt on the tail of a giant rabbit. The hunter is holding a rifle and wearing leather boots and gloves. The surrounding w...
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The Lakewoods Lounge

Date: 1949
Description: The lounge at the Lakewoods on Lake Namakagon, which includes a fireplace, furniture, large picture window, and a mounted deer head on the wall. Caption re...
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Battle of Atlanta — Cyclorama Building, Atlanta, Ga.

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Description: Color postcard of a section of the cyclorama painting "Battle of Atlanta" executed by painters under Wilhem Wehner in the 1880s. This scene shows the fight...
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Cowgirl

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Description: Embossed postcard of a painting of a woman in rodeo garb on horseback. The horse is rearing up while the woman fires a gun into the ground.
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John Thoe Johnson

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Description: Vignetted waist-up studio portrait of John Johnson, a private in Company K, 15th Wisconsin Infantry, in uniform holding his musket across his chest. The fo...
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U.S. Soldiers

Date: 1912
Description: Photographic postcard view of troops marching on the road across the railroad tracks past the depot.
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Greetings from Camp McCoy

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Description: Large Letter style postcard with representative images in the letters of "Camp Mc-Coy", including tents, artillery, barracks and soldiers. Caption reads: "...
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State House Crew

Date: 1912
Description: Group portrait of forest rangers outside a house. They are wearing work clothes, boots and a variety of hats. A man on the right is holding a gun and point...
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A Complete Deer Season, Cornucopia, Wis.

Date: 1950
Description: Photographic postcard of a man holding a rifle, squatting on ground on the right, with his trophies: Carcasses of a deer, a bear and a wolf hanging from pi...
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Mural Decoration, Brown County Courthouse

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Description: Caption reads: "Mural Decoration, Brown County Courthouse." Text on reverse reads: "This mural decoration, on the south wall of the east entrance hall, rep...
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Old Wade House; Kitchen

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Description: Ektachrome postcard of the kitchen. A woman wearing period clothing is sitting by a spinning wheel near the woodstove and fireplace. Text on reverse rea...
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Woman in Skiff

Date: 1906
Description: An unidentified woman, wearing a hat and standing in a skiff is aiming a gun toward the shore of the mill pond (Montello Lake). The printed inscription on ...
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N.W.U. Military Co.

Date: 05 24 1911
Description: A group of soldiers with rifles standing on a dirt road. A horse and carriage are behind them, and a farm with farm buildings are in the distance. Caption ...
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Wisconsin Hunting Scene

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Description: Nine deer hunters are posing with their rifles, and with nine killed deer and one small animal (possibly a rabbit) hanging from a buck pole behind them. Th...

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