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| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Jean Nicolet (1598-1642) was the first European to see Wisconsin and was a prominent French explorer who, for many years, lived among the Indians of Quebec... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | An important event of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was commissioned in 1903 by Robert Laird McCormick, president of the State Historical Society o... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | "Battle of Chickamauga," an oil painting depicting a dramatic moment in the Battle of Chickamauga, painted by Alfred Thorsen after the lithograph. "Charge ... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Portrait painting of Lee Sherman Dreyfus, Wisconsin's 40th governor. |
| Date: | 12 1927 |
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| Description: | "This scene can be dated by the homemade calendar under the wall clock. It is December of 1927. Farmers were prospering at that time, as was the rest of th... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Robert Marion La Follette, Sr., a founder of the Progressive movement, governor of Wisconsin, and United States congressman and senator. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Painted scene of an Indian guide paddling, Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary standing, and Louis Joliet, a fur trader paddling in a canoe exploring th... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Francis E. McGovern, Republican, the 22nd Governor of Wisconsin, 1911-1915. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Milo Milton Quaife (1880-1959), serving as director and editor from 1914 to 1920. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | John Muir's desk clock. The clock lighted his lamp and fire and opened the right book for him to study. At the end of half an hour it changed the book. The... |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | The threshing team breaks from work for a noon meal at the farmhouse. A bench with wash basins, soap and water sits in the yard to allow workers to wash up... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Center panel of the completed mural at the Wisconsin Historical Society. The image depicts wheat farming, one of the state's earliest and largest industrie... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Ivory check-woven cotton; machine-sewn; slightly dropped waistline; straight, unfitted bodice; knee-length skirt, gathered into waistline; full puffed slee... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Child's slippers, with ribbon ties, knitted of ecru and blue wool yarn. |
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