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Museum Collections Online
Nearly 4,000 artifacts from the Wisconsin Historical Museum have now been pictured and described on our Web site. Check out paintings, dolls, quilts, moccasins, samplers, and children's clothing through the link above. And don't forget the Wis. Decorative Arts Database, showing 200 objects of all sorts from local historical societies around the state,
New Pictures Online
Every day we add more historical images to our online collection, Wisconsin Historical Images. Not just Wisconsin, but the whole country. Not only candid snapshots, but work by major photographers. And not only photographs, but also posters, engravings, lithographs, maps and more. See the last 30 days' worth of additions by clicking above.
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On WildnessHenry Thoreau claimed that "In wildness is the preservation of the world".* It's also true, though, that in wildness lies the destruction of civilization. This reflection struck young James Doty after he'd canoed and hiked from Detroit to Minnesota in the summer of 1820. Doty was stopping at a remote fur trading post on Sandy Lake when he noted in...
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Wisconsin Magazine of History
The Summer 2008 issue features articles on the history of the original Paul Bunyan tales, the photography of Dr. Edward A. Bass, and observations on the illustrated log book from 1903 that documents the canoeing adventure of four young friends on the Wisconsin, Mississippi, Rock, and Yahara Rivers. |
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Doty's Diary of the 1820 Cass Expedition
