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Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1886
Description: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company annual catalog cover featuring an illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat. Below the text reads: "Harvesting...
Photograph

Swearing-In Native American Civil War Recruits

Date: 1861
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...
Print

Dr. Laura Ross Wolcott

Date: 09 06 1882
Description: Engraving of Dr. Laura Ross Wolcott, the first president of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Milwaukee.
Photograph

Battle of Bad Axe on the Mississippi

Date: 1830
Description: An illustration from the book Das Illustrirte Mississippithal of the Battle of Bad Axe being fought on the river.
Painting

Cyrus Hall McCormick

Date: 1867
Description: Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick.
Photograph

Weighing Guests

Date: 1898
Description: Group of people on the front porch, weighing the guests. A visit was considered successful if the guests weighed more when they left.
Photograph

Cyrus McCormick's Reaper Patent

Date: 1834
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 ...
Photograph

La Pointe, Madeline Island

Date: 1898
Description: Old Mission Residence at La Pointe, Madeline Island.
Photograph

Chief Oshkosh

Date: 1850
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...
Photograph

Yellow Thunder

Date: 1880
Description: Studio portrait of Yellow thunder, a Winnebago Chief.
Photograph

Water Tower at East Washington Avenue

Date: 1895
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)...
Painting

Caroline Klauber

Date: 1868
Description: Oil painting of Caroline Klauber, wife of Samuel Klauber.
Painting

Samuel Klauber

Date: 1868
Description: Oil painting of Samuel Klauber one of Madison's first Jewish settlers and founder of Gates of Heaven Synagogue.
Photograph

Pfeifer's Drugstore

Date: 1888
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...
Photograph

E.A. Horn's Drugstore

Date: 1888
Description: Three men stand under the iconic mortar and pestle and striped awnings of E.A. Horn's Drugstore.
Photograph

J.M. Alcott & Company Drugstore

Date: 1890
Description: Exterior of the drugstore of Joseph Mabbett Alcott at 90 Wisconsin Street. Pictured are Charles Alcott (left), his son, and store helpers.
Photograph

Steamer Minnieta

Date: 1870
Description: The sternwheel excursion, Minnieta, on the Chippewa River, Wisconsin, in the 1870's.
Photograph

Raft Fleet Below Dam

Date: 1886
Description: A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam.
Photograph

Rusted Bayonets and Shot

Date: 1812
Description: Four rusted bayonets and shot that sat in the hold of the ship Niagara for 80 years.
Manuscript

German Scientist with Test Tube

Date: 1880
Description: Illustration of a scientist in his lab gazing at a test tube, with a caption in German that translates to "Eureka! I have found it!".

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