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State Fair Grounds

Date: 1945
Description: Fruits, Farm Crops building.
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Woodruff Mill

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Description: Bissell Lumber Company. Workers are posing outdoors in front of a building. Cut trees can be seen in the background. A horse-drawn vehicle is on the right...
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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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Confederate Rest Cemetery

Date: 1898
Description: "Confederate Rest" in Forest Hill Cemetery where Confederate prisoners of war who died at Camp Randall are buried. In this early photograph, there is a woo...
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MP Making an Arrest

Date: 1974
Description: Marine Frank Huff, with upraised fist, being arrested by an MP near the Iwakuni Marine Base in Japan. Huff, a member of the GI movement of the early 1970s...
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Winnebago Ceremony

Date: 1940
Description: A small crowd gathers for a Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) ceremony under an open air structure, probably in the Wisconsin Dells. Two men in ceremonial dress stand i...
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Women Sitting on Bench

Date: 1936
Description: Two women sit on a bench in a park. Caption reads "Aunt Lydia with the photographer's wife Mary."
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Sigurd Olson

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Description: Sigurd F. Olson (April 4, 1899 - January 13, 1982) was an American author, environmentalist, and advocate for the protection of wilderness. He is seated ou...
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Ho-Chunk Man on Horse

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Description: Ho-Chunk man sitting on a horse in a field. In the background near trees is a lodge.
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Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man and Boy Outside Tent

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Description: Portrait of a Ho-Chunk man sitting cross-legged on the ground outside of a tent, holding a gun and wearing a vest and hat. A dog is on the ground near his ...
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Milwaukee Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Milwaukee Public Library. Note below the image reads: " Milwaukee Public Library, Children's Room." There are reading tables and chair...
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Stauffer as Uncle Sam

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Description: Christ M. Stauffer appearing as Uncle Sam, riding a horse, during the Cheese Day parade.
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View Across the Tennessee River

Date: 1864
Description: View across the Tennessee River toward the city and Cameron Hill, showing the military bridge and some Union Army installations put up following the occupa...
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Headquarters of S.G. Swain

Date: 1865
Description: Three men standing at entrance of residence used as headquarters when S.G. Swain, (on left), was in charge of fortifications at Fort McPherson. All three m...
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Headquarters of S.G. Swain

Date: 1865
Description: View from distance of residence used as headquarters when S.G. Swain was in charge of fortifications at Fort McPherson.
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Union Steamship

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Description: A Union ironclad steamship on the Mississippi River.
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Union Gunboat

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Description: View from a distance of a Union side-wheel gunship.
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Union Gunboat

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Description: View from a distance of a side-wheel Union gunboat.
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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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