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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Cover of a pamphlet, printed in German, advertising land for sale in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1821 |
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| Description: | Engraving depicting the Schoolcraft expedition crossing the Ontonagon River to investigate a copper boulder. |
| Date: | 03 30 1889 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view from Bascom Hill of Madison, with vignettes of the Wisconsin State Capitol, Lake Monona, and the Capitol Park. |
| Date: | 07 06 1889 |
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| Description: | Illustration depicting a boy and a girl joining hands at a crossroads, with a choice of "The Freethought Road" or "The Orthodox Route". |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Title page for the book "Nord-Amerika, Wisconsin, Calumet," by Dr. Carl de Haas. |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | Title page of the book "Wisconsin: Geography and Topography". |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | A woman sits at a table reading while apparently neglecting her whole family. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | First page of the Hand Book to Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 04 05 1862 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Camp Douglas near Chicago. Caption reads: "Camp Douglas, near Chicago, Illinois, where seven thousand rebel prisoners are quartered." |
| 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... |
| Date: | 08 12 1865 |
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| Description: | A map of the world showing telegraphic systems for encircling the globe. |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Title page of A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language by Reverend Frederic Baraga. |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Page 586 of Reverend Frederic Baraga's "Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language". |
| Date: | 02 1823 |
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| Description: | A map featuring the North American expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains led by Edwin James. |
| 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: | 1894 |
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| Description: | The front cover of a booklet about Hillside Home School during 1894-1895, the school's seventh year. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | An etching, labeled Conchology Plate IV which depicts the exterior, Figure 1, and interior of the shell of the scallop identified as Pecten yesso... |
| 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." |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | A flyer distributed by the U.S. Christian Commission announcing a Union Meeting "in behalf of our sick and wounded soldiers...". Several edits have been ma... |
| Date: | 04 18 1888 |
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| Description: | A stereograph of ruins of a fireplace in an old French fort on the banks of the Mississippi River. The fort may have been built by Nicholas Perrot. |
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