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Photograph

Zona Gale House

Date: 1940
Description: View from the Wisconsin River of the house at 506 W. Edgewater Street, built by Zona Gale in 1906 for her parents after the successful publication of her f...
Photograph

Charity Contribution Container in Sheriff's Office

Date: 02 04 1949
Description: Sheriff Herman P. Kerl, and Sally Penfield, with the four-gallon glass bottle for collecting donations to the "State Journal" Empty Stocking club, the Kidd...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Triangular Track Meet

Date: 05 20 1950
Description: The only winner of three individual events in Saturday's triangular track meet at Camp Randall was Northwestern's Jim Holland, shown here winning the 100 y...
Photograph

Milwaukee Ale House — Exterior

Date: 02 12 2010
Description: "This is the famous Milwaukee Ale House located at 233 N Water Street. Standing in front are Ethan A Casper and Parker Hren. This is the first time we have...
Photograph

Family Service at Truax Field

Date: 09 17 1960
Description: Airman Vernor Williams, a new arrival at Truax Field Air Force Base, is interviewed by Margaret Hoffman, coordinator, and Mrs. William Bogle, assistant coo...
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Milwaukee and Vicinity

Date: 1904
Description: This map has three inset maps of Whitefish Bay, Cudahy, and South Milwaukee. This map depicts schools, engine houses, railroads, street railways, city ward...
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Milwaukee

Date: 1897
Description: Two maps that show cemeteries, schools, engine houses, railroads, street railways, wards, roads, parks, block numbers, and Lake Michigan. One map has wards...
Poster

Women of Maine Are You Helping? Heroic Women of France. We Must Win The War!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of three women, in a field, leaning over and pulling an agricultural implement in a field. Text above photograph reads: "Hero...
Photograph

Interior of Schulz Garage

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Description: Interior view of the garage. In the foreground is a lift, and in the background on the left is the office, which is under a skylight. Garage doors are to t...
Photograph

Women's Christian Temperance Union Convention at Hotel Loraine

Date: 09 13 1957
Description: The national Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) holds their annual convention at the Hotel Loraine. Mrs. Fred J. Tooze (of Portland, Oregon), WCTU n...
Photograph

Madison Altrusa Club Annual Country Fair

Date: 04 25 1958
Description: One of the philanthropic projects of the Madison Altrusa Club's annual country fair proceeds is scholarships for young women to take the practical nurse's ...
Poster

What's At Steak?

Date: 
Description: Poster with an illustration of people protesting, with the words: "Decent Wages," "Safety," above a cow in the center that has sections with labels that re...
Photograph

Palmer Presbyterian Church

Date: 06 2019
Description: View of the front of the Palmer Presbyterian Church. Two people are standing near the open doors. Constructed in 1937, the building is also known at the C...
Postcard

Life Saving Station

Date: 1930
Description: Text on front reads: "Life Saving Station, Racine, Wis." Located at the mouth of the Root River, the Life Saving Station is the white structure. It was add...
Postcard

South Hall State Normal School

Date: 1924
Description: Text on front reads: "South Hall State Normal School, River Falls, Wis." A view of the vine-covered front of South Hall at the State Normal School. The sch...
Postcard

Milwaukee Veterans Home

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Milwaukee Ave. Wisconsin Vet. Home. Waupaca, Wis." Two women walk on a sidewalk along a snow-covered, unpaved street. On each side ar...
Postcard

Court House

Date: 1940
Description: Text on front reads: "Court House, West Bend, Wis." Built in 1889 of Cream Brick in the Richardson Romanesque style. The building is surrounded by trees an...
Postcard

West Bend C. & N.W. Depot

Date: 02 12 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "C. & N.W. Rv. Depot, West Bend, Wis." The West Bend Chicago North Western Railroad Depot was built in 1900 of clapboards in the Craft...
Photograph

Chippewa Falls from the South Side

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Description: Elevated view from south side of the Chippewa River, with a bridge crossing it and buildings on both sides of the river. A bluff rises on the far side of t...
Photograph

McCormick Reaper Works during Chicago Fire

Date: 1871
Description: Elevated view of men and ships near the McCormick Works and the Chicago River during the Chicago Fire of 1871. The original caption reads: "Reproduction o...

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