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SPEBSQSA Chorus

Date: 09 14 1949
Description: Group portrait of twenty-six SPEBSQSA (Society for the Preservation and Enjoyment of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America) members wearing colorful vests...
Photograph

Local SPEBSQSA Group Rehearsal

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: The local group of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) rehearsing before an internationa...
Photograph

Local SPEBSQSA Group Rehearsal

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: The local group for the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) rehearsing for an international ...
Photograph

Local SPEBSQSA Group Rehearsal

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: The local group of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) group rehearses for an internatio...
Photograph

Local SPEBSQSA Group Rehearsal

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: The local group of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (SPEBSQSA) rehearsing before an internationa...
Drawing

Pretoria Site Plan

Date: 2004
Description: Archaeological diagram of the wreckage of the schooner-barge Pretoria which lies at the bottom of Lake Superior.
Photograph

Lucy A. Kaufmann

Date: 1905
Description: Lucy Kaufmann poses in an open, wooded area holding a hoe. She is wearing a tattered hat; her skirt and blouse are torn. There are two sheds and woodpiles ...
Photograph

Empty Stocking Club

Date: 12 23 1954
Description: Louise Marston (right), society editor, accepts a check from three barbershop singers for the Wisconsin State Journal's Empty Stocking Fund. The don...
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Front Hall

Date: 1905
Description: Interior view of Oakwood, the residence of E.W. Underwood showing a wood paneled U-shaped staircase. There is a chair in the foreground, and behind it is a...
Photograph

Old Maid's Hall

Date: 1905
Description: A young woman, Jessie Underwood, reclining supported on one elbow on a fur rug in front of a piano. In front of her lying on the rug is a cat. Light comes ...
Photograph

Tenny and Underwood

Date: 1905
Description: Two gentlemen, identified as E. Tenny, of Denver Colorado, left, and E.W. Underwood of Montello, Wisconsin, are posing sitting in the parlor of Underwood's...
Photograph

Dawn Manor Historic Marker

Date: 05 20 1955
Description: Elevated view over crowd towards speaker during Women's Auxiliary 5th annual pilgrimage to historic sites in Wisconsin. Over 200 members and guests made th...
Feature Story

Pleasant Rowland Frautschi Receives 2009 'Jane Bradley Pettit Award for Distinction in Philanthropy'

Wisconsin History Maker Award
Learn about the creator of The American Girls Collection and her significant philanthropic contributions to the arts, education, historic preservation.
Photograph

Underwood Residence

Date: 1905
Description: An interior available light photograph, through a doorway, of the parlor in the home of E.W. Underwood. An oil lamp is sitting on a table flanked by two ch...
Photograph

Waukesha Depot Historic Marker

Date: 05 24 1952
Description: The Wisconsin School for Boys Band, under the direction of Arnold Krueger, provided the musical entertainment for the dedication ceremony of the Waukesha D...
Photograph

"Smiling Mushroom" Relocation Project

Date: 04 2000
Description: Relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Host-Jablonski...
Photograph

"Smiling Mushroom" Relocation Project

Date: 04 2000
Description: Successful relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Hos...
Historical Essay

'Forward' Statue

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
'Forward' statue by Wisconsin artist Jean Pond Miner, 1893. (Museum object #1998.1.1)
Book or Pamphlet

Hardcover: $29.95
160 pages, 126 color photos and illus., 1 map, 8 x 9
ISBN: 9780870207679

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