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| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Thomas Bigford (in cap, on left) and another official swearing-in two Native American Civil War recruits. Thomas Bigford (1815-1890) of Taycheedah, Wiscons... |
| Date: | 1830 |
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| Description: | An illustration from the book Das Illustrirte Mississippithal of the Battle of Bad Axe being fought on the river. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Group of people on the front porch, weighing the guests. A visit was considered successful if the guests weighed more when they left. |
| Date: | 1834 |
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| Description: | Press release image compiled by the International Harvester Company. The image includes "excerpts of the patent grant from the U.S. Patent Office to Cyrus ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Old Mission Residence at La Pointe, Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Drawing of Chief Oshkosh rendered from a daguerreotype by J.F. Harrison. He is wearing a top hat wrapped with a ribbon. Also a suitcoat, bowtie, beaded nec... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Yellow thunder, a Winnebago Chief. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | The monthly horse market on East Washington Avenue between Pinckney and Webster Streets. The 125-foot-high water tower (1890-1921) and Amerika, (1889-1922)... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Charles Pfeifer's Drugstore, founded in 1858. From left to right are Charles Pfeifer, Fred Pfeifer, Mrs. Adam Heeb, Fulda Pfeifer, Mrs. Ch... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Three men stand under the iconic mortar and pestle and striped awnings of E.A. Horn's Drugstore. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the drugstore of Joseph Mabbett Alcott at 90 Wisconsin Street. Pictured are Charles Alcott (left), his son, and store helpers. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, Minnieta, on the Chippewa River, Wisconsin, in the 1870's. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam. |
| Date: | 1812 |
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| Description: | Four rusted bayonets and shot that sat in the hold of the ship Niagara for 80 years. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from across street of men posing with farm and lawn equipment along the storefront of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company dealership. Thre... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | McCormick Harvesting Machine Company branch house building. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | McCormick Harvesting Machine Company office building from the corner of Market and Jackson streets. The building's address was 212 Market Street. Offices f... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Salted paper photoprint of James Duane Doty, territorial governor of Wisconsin 1841-44. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the veterans of Company E, 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry at their reunion. H.H. Bennett appears standing at the far right of the second row... |
| Date: | 07 14 1897 |
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| Description: | James Whalen, boss canvasman with the Ringling Brothers circus, at work in a van. |
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