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| Date: | 02 21 1882 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph poster advertising a Milwaukee Mardi Gras celebration, arranged by the Turnverein and Milwaukee Musical Societies, and held at the Exposit... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Suffragist Katherine Waugh McCullough speaking from an open car. A banner on the car reads: "Votes for Women." |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | McCormick Harvesting Machine Company annual catalog cover featuring an illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat. Below the text reads: "Harvesting... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Frederick Jackson Turner with his History Seminar in an alcove of the Historical Society rooms in the third Wisconsin State Capitol, about 1893-1894. Back ... |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
| Date: | 11 1964 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle on the Don Phuc command post, in front of a stack of sandbags, on the Vietnam-Cambodia frontier. Chapelle resided at this post for 34 days,... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Norwegian family posing with their household possessions, in front of their home. The man dressed in military uniform is a Civil War veteran. Madison, Wisc... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set. |
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| Description: | Photographers demonstrating strobe light functions at Frank Scherschel's Strobe Research Lab. Frank Scherschel is in the back on the righthand side, wearin... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Young children reading at the library. A librarian works near the circulation desk in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | This is said to be the family of Hans Holtan (a.k.a. Austinson) posed in the yard before a frame house that has carpenter's lace on porch, two separate doo... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Belle Case La Follette, wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing a group of farmers during a tour on the Chautauqua circuit during which she frequent... |
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| Description: | Carrie Chapman Catt in her Seattle home reading a book. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I poster promoting individuals to garden and can vegetables for the war effort. Produced by the National War Garden Commission. |
| Date: | 08 08 1906 |
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| Description: | Dr. Charles R. McCarthy and staff at the Legislative Reference Library. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna, seated together reading in a bedroom at Taliesin. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Homer Bigart with elderly couple. Bigart was an award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times". |
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| Description: | Formal studio portrait of Clara Bewick Colby in a long, black skirt, holding a book. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Edna Ferber looking to her right, wearing a string of pearls. |
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