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| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Milwaukee Light Guard depicting four men, including captain J.C. Starkweather. This is a cover from sheet music "Milwaukee Light Guard ... |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | A Menominee village as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited the Green Bay area about 1838. The detailed, ... |
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| Description: | Jane Addams holding an open book, surrounded by immigrant children. |
| Date: | 03 09 1878 |
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| Description: | Illustration by N.A. Greenback of ice-skaters and iceboats featuring the new Poughkeepsie design of pivoting runners. A key at the bottom of the image iden... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1903, the year in which a constitutional amendment approved expansion of the court from five to seven judg... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Detail of the 1903 group portrait of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, showing Justice Robert G. Siebecker, then the least senior member of the court. Siebecker... |
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| Description: | Poster for women's suffrage, title on sides reads: "Woman Suffrage." Text below reads: "Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise he... |
| Date: | 03 20 1946 |
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| Description: | Original, inscribed political cartoon by Clifford K. Berryman, showing Robert M. La Follette, Jr., carrying the Wisconsin Progressive Party back to the Rep... |
| Date: | 07 1886 |
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| Description: | Intersection of 4th and Steele Streets facing east. The building in the lower right is the Knipfer building, now Algoma Mercantile. Bunting adorns the Boed... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A hand-drawn cartoon in crayon entitled "Westward The Course Of Empire". It features Frederick Jackson Turner on a rocking horse with a sunset in the backg... |
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| Description: | Drawing of Paul Bunyan running with two oxen pulling a log that is being sawed by two other lumberjacks. |
| Date: | 07 12 |
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| Description: | Ringling Bros. and Barnun and Bailey combined shows poster, depicting wire walkers and other performers under a circus tent. "The only act of its kind" fea... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting both New York City as "the wonder city of the world," and train travel. Featuring the artist Adolph Treidler, the poster d... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as "home of the Pennsylvania Railroad." The poster features the artist N.C. Wyeth, and depicts... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company, and promoting Haddon Hall and the Wye Valley as "The Peak Distr... |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Oil painting portrait of a man. He is wearing an overcoat and dark top hat with two feathers in the hatband. There is some confusion about the last name;... |
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| Description: | Oil painting portrait of unknown woman. Her hair is pinned up and she is wearing a short sleeved black dress. She has a crucifix hanging around her neck. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Ladies Ideal Band, in uniform and holding their instruments which include drums and various brass ins... |
| Date: | 06 03 1884 |
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| Description: | Illustrations=s of the Republican National Convention. The main drawing shows an outside view with the caption "Scene in front of the convention building d... |
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