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| Date: | 02 1932 |
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| Description: | Engraving by Charles Silver to mark the passage of Wisconsin's Unemployment Compensation Law, the first in the nation. |
| Date: | 1615 |
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| Description: | Drawing of Native Americans chasing deer into an enclosure during a hunt. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Women bringing lunch to the men working in the field. The men are harvesting grain using a horse-drawn grain binder. |
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| Description: | Cutover land near a lumber mill. Logs and boards are stacked near the building in the background. |
| Date: | 07 11 1863 |
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| Description: | View of the east front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. A small group of people stand near a fence on the lawn in front of the building. A ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Woodcut illustration of a farmer in an outbuilding at night. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Woodcut illustration of a nighttime cityscape and a crescent moon. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of a house surrounded by gardens, an evergreen shelter belt and ornamental hedges. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Lithograph elevated view of the Alexander Mitchell home and gardens seen from the corner of Ninth and Spring Streets. Pedestrians, horse-riders and a horse... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of clumps of grasses in a meadow with a handful of trees in the background. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of piles of cut grass in a field. Men on a wagon with a heavy load of hay pulled by a horse can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Men using a hoist to lift a panel onto the side of a silo. The silo is next to a barn with a gambrel roof and a cupola. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Backyard garden with a plank path bordered on one side by a wooden fence. A clothesline stretches across the yard from a fence post. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Diagram of an effigy mound in the shape of a cross. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Map of a portion of Merton including the Bark River, a mill, Fort Hill, and Indian mounds. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A bird's-eye view illustration of the Northern Electrical Manufacturing Company. The company was founded in 1895 by four Madison businessmen, Conrad M. Con... |
| Date: | 12 1868 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of four women racing on bicycles. Spectators in the background are behind a fence. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Engraved image from a sketch by Theodore Davis showing four men bicycling. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Map showing Indian mounds and graves as well as ground cover types at Township 8, Range 22. There is an inset diagram of an effigy mound labeled "The Cross... |
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| Description: | Map showing Indian mounds in Milwaukee's Second Ward from a sketch made by Increase Lapham in 1836. Streets shown on the map include 6th Street, 5th Street... |
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