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| Date: | 04 19 1849 |
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| Description: | Poster offering $600 reward for the return of three runaway slaves in Calvert County, Maryland. The three slaves are Henry Morsell, Jim Parker, and Bill Hu... |
| Date: | 04 1854 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising an Anti-Slave Catchers' Mass Convention at Young's Hall in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on April 13th, 1854. The poster attempts to unite indivi... |
| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | Edward P. Allis Reliance Works under the protection of the Wisconsin State Militia during the first general labor strike. The strike is also known as the ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | The first Farmers Alliance — also known as the Southern Alliance — is shown in front of the cabin in which their first formal meeting was held in 1877 in P... |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | An early type of sidewheel passenger and freight steamboat The Milwaukie, also known as The Milwaukee. It was used on Lake Erie and upper lak... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Lithograph from Frank Leslie's Illustrated News of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin, at her wharf in Chicago, Illinois in 1860. From a pho... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, Minnieta, on the Chippewa River, Wisconsin, in the 1870's. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View of an elementary school classroom with two-seater desks. American flags and bunting complete the decor. |
| Date: | 06 28 1865 |
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| Description: | The Great Fair held at Milwaukee for the benefit of the Wisconsin Soldiers Home. The 130x130 foot building was constructed especially for the ten-day fair.... |
| Date: | 11 08 1856 |
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| Description: | Political drawing for the Democratic Presidential Campaign, which included Buchanan and Breckenridge. |
| Date: | 06 05 1884 |
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| Description: | Engraved portraits of candidates for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Chester A. Arthur, General John A. Logan, George Franklin Edmunds, and James G... |
| Date: | 08 11 1892 |
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| Description: | Political cartoon for presidential campaign. Pro-Benjamin Harrison, anti-Grover Cleveland. Shows "John Bull" (Cleveland was labeled "The English Candidate"... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the arrival in a train station of the Maine and New Hampshire delegations to the National Republican Convention. |
| Date: | 06 1880 |
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| Description: | Illustration of Honorary George F. Hoar addressing a huge crowd of delegates at the National Republican Convention. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio photograph of Louis Brosemer wearing a suit and hat. He is standing before a United States flag holding an oversized pen as though it wa... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Illinois Central World's Fair Transportation Center at Van Buren Street. Several pedestrians cross a bridge leading to trains and lake... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View of the canal area of the Columbian Exposition grounds looking north from near the front of the Machinery building (at left). The South canal is in the... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | The Republican State Ticket with portraits of each man. In the center is William H. Upham who won the election and was Wisconsin's Governor from 1895 thru ... |
| Date: | 06 05 1884 |
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| Description: | Engraved portraits of candidates for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Robert T. Lincoln, General William T. Sherman, General Joseph Roswell Hawley, ... |
| Date: | 06 1880 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Interstate Exposition Building,the site of the Republican National Convention. |
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