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Rennebohm Drug Store

Date: 01 14 1944
Description: Display of personal care products in the window of Rennebohm Drug Store #10, 676 State Street. Here the promotion to buy large size items seen in other Ren...
Photograph

Capitol Square Parade

Date: 10 07 1887
Description: Military parade on Main Street honoring President Grover Cleveland's visit to Madison. Soldiers of the University Battalion are marching on West Main Stree...
Photograph

Emma Teckemeyer with Lap Robes

Date: 09 10 1951
Description: Emma (Mrs. W.J.) Teckemeyer poses with some of the 13 quilted lap robes which she has personally made for the patients at the new Veterans' Administration ...
Print

Union with a Patriotic Bow

Date: 1860
Description: The word "UNION" with a bow underneath. The letters of "UNION" are blue with white stars on top and red stripes on the bottom. The first "N" is backwards. ...
Print

A Farm Family

Date: 1909
Description: A Southern African American family posing outdoors in front of their house. The children are in an oxcart in the foreground, and the parents are behind the...
Postcard

Parade Float

Date: 1912
Description: Several people, holding umbrellas, are riding in a car decorated with many tissue paper pom poms for a parade. There are miniature horse models on the hood...
Photograph

Service Roll, Town of Genesee

Date: 1918
Description: View of the service roll for the Town of Genesee. Local service members' names are listed, and a small cannon is set up below. Next to it is a sign that re...
Photograph

Mrs. Charles Harrison

Date: 04 05 1957
Description: A woman is posing in a hat and costume next to an American flag. Caption reads: "Mrs. Charles Harrison, N. Harcourt pl., portrayed a member of the 1...
Photograph

Military Order of the World Wars Chapter Meeting

Date: 01 31 1957
Description: Four officers attend the Madison Chapter Military Order of World Wars cocktail and dinner party. They include, from left to right: Brig Gen Collin H. Ferri...
Photograph

Patriotic Parade

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Description: View across unpaved road towards a group of people on a stagecoach patriotically decorated for a parade on a town street.
Poster

Eight Million Patriotic Red Cross Workers Have Made 291,004,000 Necessary Articles For War Purposes

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a woman wearing a hat with the Red Cross insignia on it. Details are about the contributions that women have made towar...
Poster

Just One Extra Litter

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a mother pig with six piglets and rows of pigs at the bottom of the poster. Highlights of the text reads: "Just one ext...
Print

Cleveland Police...Motorized

Date: 1939
Description: Advertising proof. Illustration of two police officers in an International truck, with a sign painted on the side that reads: "Emergency Mobile Patrol, Cit...
Photograph

Scene from Play

Date: 1905
Description: In a scene from a play, a woman is lying on the stage floor with her eyes closed. Two men in military uniforms, one brandishing a sword, are standing over ...
Postcard

Homecoming Parade

Date: 07 06 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Home Coming Racine, Wis. July 6th in 09." Image of a decorated horse-drawn wagon in the Home Coming parade stopping for a photograph....
Postcard

Patriotic Crowd

Date: 1914
Description: A crowd of adults and children are standing in a line with American Flags on a brick street. There is a large, three-story brick building on the right. In ...
Postcard

Service Flag Dedication

Date: 11 01 1918
Description: Text on front reads: "Service Flag Dedication, Schleisingerville, Wis." The people of the town and uniformed nurses are watching as the soldiers are standi...
Photograph

Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall

Date: 01 18 1970
Description: Exterior view of the GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) Memorial Hall, 118 Monona Avenue, (Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard as of January 19, 1987). The bui...
Postcard

Man with Two Wheeled Hand Cart

Date: 1920
Description: John Virnig, Sr., harness maker, grips the handle of a two wheeled hand cart as he poses on the sidewalk in a neighborhood. He is wearing a hat, shirt and ...
Photograph

Democratic Election Rally

Date: 10 12 2012
Description: Vice President Joe Biden addresses the crowd at a 2012 Democratic Election rally held at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He is standing at a podium ...

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