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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Native Americans playing a lacrosse-like game of ball. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Charles W. Fenlason, who served as a private in the Civil War in Company G, 4th Wisconsin Cavalry (later Infantry). A resident of Farmington [T... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | "Ancient copper mining on Lake Superior." |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | A engraving of the artist's conception of Pawnees torturing a female captive in the Morning Star Sacrifice ceremony. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Jairus Cassius Fairchild, Madison's first mayor. |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves. |
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| Description: | A page from the book Nakoma Tomahawk with a portrait and brief story about Nakoma resident Thomas Lloyd Jones. The page includes an image of the Jon... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Illustration from the Freethinkers Pictorial Text Book of a woman climbing a steep, rocky slope to a sign that reads "Come Up Higher / The Free Thou... |
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| Description: | Two illustrations depicting the capture by Europeans of Africans who were taken away on ships to be slaves. The caption is in French. |
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| Description: | An illustration of a man with a full body tattoo. He is an inhabitant of the Island of Nukahiwa. |
| Date: | 07 27 1861 |
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| Description: | The caption with the image states, "Battle of Hoke's Run-Col. Starkweather with his Wisconsin Regiment deploying as skirmishers." The Battle of Hoke's Run ... |
| Date: | 03 15 1862 |
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| Description: | Engraved Illustration for the story titled: "The Fight at Fort Donelson". The illustration shows the Second Iowa Volunteers regiment attacking Confederate ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | An illustration depicting the cheese factory and dry goods store of J.G. Pickett at Pickett's Station. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Group of Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indians in a long house (ciproke). Some of the men are displaying animal pelts. There is a bucket and a small barrel at the e... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Small group of Native Americans spearing fish through ice on a river. Mountains can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Position of H.M.S. Terror on the 22nd of February, 1837. The sailing ship was immobilized in the sea ice near Southampton Island, at the entrance to... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Lithographic view of Four Legs Village at the outlet of Lake Winnebago. There are is a person in a canoe on the river and a large tree in the foreground. S... |
| Date: | 04 15 1892 |
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| Description: | The masthead page of the first issue of "The Pneumatic," a monthly cycling magazine. It features a cartoon captioned, "A Spring Cycling Episode." |
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