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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of J. Wesley Carhart of Racine, Methodist minister, physician, and inventor of a steam-powered automobile in 1871. Although impractical, ... |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | An engraving depicting a woman reprimanding a young woman, while a young man looks in at a window in the background. |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Illustration of a young couple romancing by a well as another young woman watches from behind. |
| Date: | 08 12 1876 |
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| Description: | A cartoon depicting General M.C. Butler, holding a top hat in his left hand, and carrying an umbrella under his right arm standing next to dead African Ame... |
| Date: | 08 12 1876 |
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| Description: | A cartoon depicting Justice holding bodies on her scale, one white and six black. The caption includes the phrase: "Five More Wanted." |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | A studio group portrait of the Oshkosh baseball team, "The Famous Team of 1887". All the players are wearing formal suits rather than baseball uniforms. In... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | "The Famous Oshkosh Team of 1887". A composite portrait of the Oshkosh baseball team, made up of baseball card images of each player, and a central image o... |
| Date: | 07 22 1905 |
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| Description: | A cartoon titled "The First Mountain To Be Removed" showing Uncle Sam and Theodore Roosevelt looking at a mountain shaped like a skeleton wearing a mask an... |
| Date: | 03 04 1905 |
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| Description: | A political cartoon titled "The Great American Durbar", showing a parade of political characters featuring Theodore Roosevelt perched atop an elephant symb... |
| Date: | 04 05 1862 |
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| Description: | Group of Confederate prisoners of war assembled in prison barracks. |
| Date: | 05 23 1863 |
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| Description: | Cartoon appearing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Page 144. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Copperheads nominally favored th... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Joc-O-Sot, "A Sauk Chief from the Upper Missouri, U.S.A." |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | "The Scalp Dance is given as a celebration of a victory; and amongst this tribe, as I learned whilst residing with them, danced in the night, by the light ... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Mah-To-Toh-Pa. He is holding a decorated spear. "In the former letter I gave some account of Mah-to-toh-pa (the four bears), second... |
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