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Gallery Covered in Ivy

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Description: Small building completely covered in ivy, with a chimney projecting at the top left side of the roof.
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First Ward School

Date: 1900
Description: First Ward School, razed in 1907.
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General Blunt's Headquarter Band

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Description: General Blunt's Headquarter Band, members of the 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry who were massacred and burnt by the guerilla Quantrell at Baxter Springs, Kansas.
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One Room School

Date: 1914
Description: Unidentified one-room school in Racine County. Transportation to better consolidated schools was one significant improvement that motorized vehicles brough...
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Grant Campaign

Date: 1872
Description: Ulysses S. Grant loyalist demonstrates his strength in a display showing various sized potatoes with politicians names attached. The opposition is depicted...
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Wisconsin Historical Society Library Skylight

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Description: View from below of the Wisconsin Historical Society's Library skylight.
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Capture of an Unprotected Female

Date: 1865
Description: "Capture of an unprotected female, or the close up of the Rebellion." Photograph card of a cartoon concerning Jefferson Davis' flight across Georgia in wo...
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Cooperative Cartoon

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Description: A cartoon of a woman customer speaking to a man (apparently an employee) wearing an apron, upon which is printed, "Co op".
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Louis J. Ropson

Date: 1940
Description: A man is sitting and hunching over the body of a violin. Other violins are hanging up behind him. Caption reads: "Louis J. Ropson, farmer & violin maker of...

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