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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: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Native Americans playing a lacrosse-like game of ball. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Indian women standing on platforms make noise to scare birds from the cornfield. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Three women in a canoe harvest wild rice. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Indians standing and sitting near wigwams. Four wigwam frames are covered, with the one on the right uncovered, with a campfire inside. In the distance are... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Two tone lithograph of a pile of Lake Superior whitefish and trout on the lakeshore with a man and boat in the background. |
| 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: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Falls of St. Anthony, as seen in The Indian Tribes of the United States: their history antiquities, customs, religion, arts, languag... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Color plate number III from Susan Frackelton's Tried by Fire showing a Vinenna style of decoration. |
| 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: | 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. |
| Date: | 04 18 1888 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of fireplace ruins on the site of an old French fort, possibly built by Nicholas Perrot. There is an electric pole behind the fireplace and a g... |
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