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Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche

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Description: Don Ameche (standing) and Ralph Bellamy (sitting) pose as the Duke Brothers from the film Trading Places.
Map or Atlas

Map of Sheboygan Wisconsin Showing Voting Precincts & Polling Places

Date: 1956
Description: This maps shows voting precincts and polling places as well as wards. Streets and the Sheboygan River are labeled. The bottom right of the map features a l...
Photograph

Man on River near Oslo

Date: 1914
Description: Various views of places in Oslo. Text at bottom reads: "Stephenson Bros., Oslo, Manitowoc Co., Wis., U.S.A., 1914."
Photograph

Hammer with Large Handle

Date: 04 29 1915
Description: Hammer with extremely large handle and sign: "In some places, material does more harm than good."
Photograph

Stamping Cheeses

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Description: A male worker in a cheese-making factory places a Wisconsin stamp on cheeses.
Photograph

Farm Buildings

Date: 1915
Description: View of a barn, shed, and fence, used to illustrate places where mites and lice might breed.
Map or Atlas

Ward Map, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Date: 1955
Description: This map shows wards and precincts and includes list of polling places by ward and precinct, and list of State Assembly districts.
Photograph

Milwaukee-Downer College Dining Hall Interior

Date: 1906
Description: Interior view of the Milwaukee-Downer College dining hall. Places at the tables are set.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering 6-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 10 02 1934
Description: A man places a milk canister into a McCormick-Deering milk cooler.
Photograph

Christmas Decorations

Date: 1910
Description: Residential dining room with Christmas decorations and circular table with turkey, set for two places.
Print

Fight CommUNism Stamp

Date: 1954
Description: Brochure advertising anti-Communism stamps created and distributed by McAllen, Texas. The handwritten date on the brochure places its publication at the p...
Photograph

Machiko Kyo and Masayuki Mori in Ugetsu Monogatari

Date: 1953
Description: Machiko Kyo, as Lady Wakasa, places an order with Genjuro the potter, played by Masayuki Mori, in Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu Monogatari (1953).
Photograph

"Wisconsin" Statue on Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 07 20 1914
Description: A crane places the gilded bronze statue, "Wisconsin," by Daniel Chester French, on top of the Wisconsin State Capitol dome.
Photograph

View of Shell Lake

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of Shell Lake before a fire on December 3, 1889 which swept Main Street and destroyed more than twenty business places.
Photograph

Kilbourn Fire Aftermath

Date: 03 15 1866
Description: People gather the morning after a fire that destroyed Dixon's store as well as $100,000 worth of goods and eleven other places of business. The flames were...
Photograph

Canning

Date: 1943
Description: A woman removing a jar of cut string beans from a pot and places it on a dishcloth next to two other filled jars.
Photograph

McCormick-Deering 10 Can Milk Cooler

Date: 10 09 1936
Description: H.C. Wuesthoof places a milk canister into a 10 can McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler.
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1891
Description: This maps has an index of depots, hotels, prominent institutions and buildings, churches, and places of amusement. The map was removed from an unidentified...
Map or Atlas

Visit Madison Wisconsin Map

Date: 
Description: The cover of a map which is titled: "Visit Madison Wisconsin the Capital of Vacationland". The cover lists various places to visit in the city.
Photograph

Grave of the Unknown

Date: 1975
Description: A veteran places a flower on the grave of an unknown soldier.

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