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| Date: | 06 19 1862 |
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| Description: | Illustration depicting crowd attending the presentation of a sword to General Burnside. |
| Date: | 12 17 1862 |
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| Description: | Illustration depicting a battle. In the foreground injured soldiers are gathered on and around the porch and yard of a house. In the background are columns... |
| 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: | 12 05 1863 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the dedication ceremony for the Soldiers' National Cemetery, November 19,1863, that appeared in "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper." It was... |
| 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: | 02 1908 |
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| Description: | The front page of "The Harp," an Irish newspaper out of New York. |
| Date: | 1698 |
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| Description: | An illustration of two men looking out at Niagara Falls. The Niagara Falls in Jean Louis Hennepin’s A new discovery of a vast country in America (London: M... |
| Date: | 12 1894 |
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| Description: | An illustration from the article "Comely Features" in Godey's Ladies Book, showing elimination of forehead wrinkles. |
| 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: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Lithographic view of a man in a canoe on Big-Foot's Lake (modern day Lake Geneva) with a small settlement on a bluff overlooking the lake. A group of birds... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Lithograhic view of the residence of John Kinzie on the bank of the Chicago River at the mouth of Lake Michigan. The residence consists of a house with a f... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Reverend John Blaschke of St. Wenceslas Church. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Reverend Louis Kaluza. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Reverend Leo Suchy. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Cover of a booklet about Hillside Home School for 1895-1896, the school's eighth year. Includes a circular framed photograph of the front of the school. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Newspaper halftone in Mrs. Louise Lawrence Van Dyke's obituary in the Milwaukee Sentinel. Portion of the text: "Liberal Donor to Charity. Mrs. Louis... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Upham obituary portrait. Some text from obituary, "Mrs. Upham Is Dead at 75. Widow of Attorney Was Leader in Club and Education Work." |
| 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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| Description: | Exterior view across lawn towards the John J. Williams Sr. and Jr. summer residence "Briarwood." The house has a large wrap-around porch. |
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