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International Harvester Office Scene

Date: 1921
Description: Two men look over papers at a desk surrounded by International Harvester manuals, pamphlets, and a repair list. The men may be International Harvester deal...
Manuscript

Badger Brass Manufacturing Company Letter

Date: 12 16 1926
Description: Portion of the dissolution letter regarding the Badger Brass Manufacturing Company.
Book or Pamphlet

Composition Book

Date: 1889
Description: The cover of a composition book printed by the Germania Publishing Company. A label identifies the contents as "Incorporation-Papers and Minutebook, German...
Manuscript

Fur Trade Engagement in French

Date: 03 14 1812
Description: A fur trade engagement for Charles St. Antoine dit Vacher, written in French.
Document

Acceptance of Airline Service Proposal Telegram

Date: 09 20 1920
Description: Photograph of Alfred Lawson's telegram confirming that Otto Praeger, second assistant United States Postmaster General, had received Alfred Lawson's air ma...
Manuscript

La Crosse Carriage Co. Letterhead

Date: 1887
Description: Letterhead of the La Crosse Wallis Carriage Co., manufacturers of fine family carriages, showing a view of the factory with the Mississippi River in the ba...
Document

Telegram from Kenneth Crawford

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Description: A Western Union telegram sent from London from Kenneth Crawford, a World War II correspondent, to Elizabeth Crawford.
Print

Northwestern Lithographing Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Northwestern Lithographing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, art lithographers, publishers, and engravers, with a standing female figure in ...
Book or Pamphlet

The North American Press Cover

Date: 02 1928
Description: The embossed soft cover of a 24 page promotional booklet produced by The North American Press, founded in 1873 as The Germania Publishing Company by George...
Print

Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing Letterhead

Date: 1901
Description: Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing letterhead. Fuller & Johnson was run by John A. Johnson and was one of Madison's largest employers.
Manuscript

Nathan Myrick Post Office Letter

Date: 1891
Description: Letter from Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, Estes G. Rathbone, regarding the establishment of the Post Office at La Crosse and Nathan Myrick's appoint...
Document

Bennett Studio Lease Agreement

Date: 01 14 1876
Description: Document stating that H.H. Bennett will make annual rental payments of $232.10 to William H. Metcalf of Milwaukee for rental of his studio in Kilbourn City...
Document

Ojibwe Treaty

Date: 1864
Description: This document, sometimes cited as the “Statement made by the Indians, a bilingual petition of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, 1864,” was carried by an Ojib...
Photograph

Clerk Sitting at Desk at Osborne Works

Date: 08 04 1913
Description: A man wearing glasses is seated at a cluttered wooden desk at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). Behind him are file dr...
Photograph

Farmers' Petitions

Date: 06 1986
Description: Jerry Zarecki (in the hat), president of the Portage County Farmers Union, presents Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey with one folder of petitions collec...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man Holding Paper Fan

Date: 1898
Description: Studio portrait of Sam Wilson aka George Walkingcloud sitting on a stone wall. He is holding a paper fan in his right hand with an illustration of a boat. ...
Manuscript

Bennett Studio 1874 Inventory

Date: 01 01 1874
Description: Two-page spread from H.H. Bennett's studio inventory of 1874. The spread shows the inventory and value of items in the printing and furnishing room and on ...
Postcard

Three Women Posed Around Folding Screen

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three women posing around a folding screen. From left to right, Mamie Meyerkiester, Gertrude Boehnan Endr...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of European American Women

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three unidentified women. They are all wearing dark-colored dresses and hats and are posing around a prop...
Photograph

United Farmworkers Union Protest Signs

Date: 1969
Description: Hand-lettered protest signs and United Farm Workers (UFW) paper flags taped to a concrete wall in response to an official posting by the Fall River Canning...

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