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Museum Collections Online
Nearly 4,000 artifacts from the Wisconsin Historical Museum have now been pictured and described on our website. 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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More Bank Failures (1857) Twenty years after the Panic of 1837 (described in a previous entry), Wisconsin suffered again when the nation plunged into another depression. The economy had boomed for a decade. Railroads extended their reach all across the nation, cutting the cost and time required to move people and goods. The population grew dramatically as European immigrants entered Atlantic ports and...
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Wisconsin Magazine of History
The Autumn 2008 issue features articles on the cancelled 1957 and 1958 Wisconsin Badger football games against Louisiana State due to Louisiana's segregation laws, Camp Randall as a prisoner of war facility during the Civil War, and the fight for women journalists to integrate the Milwaukee Press Club. |
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Odd Wisconsin Exhibit Out of the Ordinary
