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| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Broadside advertising a public auction at the estate of Olaus Haagenson. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Colored print containing two images advertising the delivery of mail. The main image is of the large Michigan and Southern train labeled "The Fast Mail" de... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | An original poster advertising the eleventh annual railroad picnic, taking place at Devil's Lake State Park on Saturday, July 27, 1889. In the advertiseme... |
| Date: | 09 1882 |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway, also "Known as The Royal Route." The poster features the... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | An original passenger notice poster distributed by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway regarding ticket purchases prior to train boarding. In this two-ton... |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | Menominee war dance, as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited Green Bay, Wisconsin about 1838. This detail... |
| 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;... |
| 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: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by May Conniff Frost showing the tugboat Record of the Inman Line pulling a lake schooner through rough waters into Superio... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | John Fawcett Tyrrell, handwriting expert and documents examiner of Milwaukee, standing at left of an illuminated poster, ten feet high, entitled "The Histo... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of group of nine men, identified on the reverse as associates of the Geneva, New York Experiment Station. St... |
| Date: | 04 01 1867 |
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| Description: | Castle Garden Emigrant Agency poster advertising railroad travel rates for emigrants. |
| Date: | 04 1848 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising an auction for about 49,000 acres of land for sale in Wisconsin and Illinois by Thomas & Sons Auctioneers. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of James T. Lewis. Lewis was Wisconsin's 9th governor and one of the four governors of Wisconsin during the war. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Group of Ho Chunk Indians that visited Governor Lucius Fairchild. Names, (standing), Dandy, holding a long stemmed pipe, (Four-Leg's son), (seated) Wau-So-... |
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