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| Pocket knife found on the corpse of Wisconsin Governor Louis P. Harvey after he drowned in the Tennessee River on April 19, 1862. (Museum object #1969.4) |
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| Engine fragment from the van used in the Sterling Hall bombing, 1970. (Museum object #1994.8) |
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| Portrait of Lucius Fairchild by John Singer Sargent, 1887. (Museum object #1942.305) |
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| Iron collar removed from a freedom seeker by Wisconsin soldiers in 1862. (Museum object #1961.73) |
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| Giant knife presented to John Fox Potter by Missouri Republicans after his challenge to duel with a Virginia congressman, 1860. (Museum object #1957.112) |
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