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| Description: | Townspeople fleeing the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Back of painting reads: "Madison in June 1837 after photo taken by E.E. Bailey" and "Peck's cabin by Dengel." The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built... |
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| Description: | A stuffed toy goat with a gray body and a red tail, beard and ears. |
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| Description: | Close-up of the face of a Dainty Dorothy doll. |
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| Description: | A close-up of the markings on the back of the head of a Dainty Dorothy doll. |
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| Description: | Painting of a county fair, depicting a grandstand, harnass racing, a ferris wheel and merry-go-round typical of the event. The fair gave farmers an opportu... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Sweet Clover School near the end of the school year in late April or early May. Cows graze in an adjoining pasture and a farmer is complet... |
| Date: | 05 04 2010 |
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| Description: | A girl doll dating back to 1890-1900. She is painted brown, and wearing a striped coat over a flowered dress. |
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| Description: | A bisque doll of a woman with her face and hands painted black. She is wearing a red plaid dress with two aprons. The doll was made in Germany in 1890-1910... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Pin celebrating 50 years of Green Bay Packers football. There is a picture of a Packer helmet on the pin. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ... |
| Date: | 08 01 1967 |
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| Description: | Donald Soehnlein took this photograph while on vacation in the Bitterroot Mountains, near Lola, Montana. It depicts his wife Nina and son James cleaning up... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Stephen M. Babcock's membership card for the League of American Wheelmen, Geneva Bicycle Club of New York for the year 1885. The card is signed by Secretar... |
| Date: | 1999 |
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| Description: | This genre work, titled "Spearing Time," was painted in 1999 by Geri Schrab, a self-taught watercolor artist in De Forest, Wisconsin. Schrab was first insp... |
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| Description: | Painting of the Eben Peck cabin, the first house in Madison, was built in June, 1837. Text on back of art board: "Madison in June 1837." Painting likely ba... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | The cover of a Milwaukee Braves scorebook featuring a caricature of a Native American man. |
| Date: | 02 02 2017 |
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| Description: | Two Duncan yo-yos, side by side. One the left is the "Imperial" version and on the right is the "Butterfly" style. |
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