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| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Harriet Douglas Whetten (b.1822). Whetten was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. She served on hospital ships out of New York and Philadelphia from 18... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry officers' mess. Pictured are: Surgeon A.J. Ward, Major Thomas S. Allen, Lt. Colonel Lucius Fairchild, and Colonel Edgar... |
| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | Edward P. Allis Reliance Works under the protection of the Wisconsin State Militia during the first general labor strike. The strike is also known as the ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Central Railroad train on White River Bridge, with crew posing on top of cars. The bridge was 1600 feet long and 110 feet above the water. In 187... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Workers posing in front of pharmaceutical equipment to demonstrate the making of Dr. Brown's Cough Balsam at Kienth Drugs and Medicines, 608 Mitchell Stree... |
| Date: | 04 1893 |
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| Description: | Launching Captain Abe McDougall's whaleback boat, "Christopher Columbus", from the American Steel Barge Company dock. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Sewing room at Lac du Flambeau U.S. Government School for Indian children. Female students posed at their sewing machines and work tables. |
| Date: | 05 30 1882 |
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| Description: | Advertising handbill for the Osborne twine binder. Describes the results of a contest between the Osborne machine and machines made by McCormick, Deering, ... |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Lyman C. Draper. This shows him at the time he assumed the position of Historical Society superintendent, at the age of 38. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Tonyawatha Spring Hotel from a descriptive brochure. The hotel opened in 1879 and was destroyed by fire on July 31, 1895. |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length engraving of Colonel Theodor C. Rodolf. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Plate V from Turnversin manual "Fahnen-Uebungen" (Flag exercises). "Different lifts both to and from standing position, including changing footsteps." Fr... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Punch paper "Home Sweet Home" sampler. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Drawn the first year of the Civil War, this colored 1861 map of Dane County shows its towns, cities and lakes. It includes insets of the wards of Madison a... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Drawn the second year of the Civil War, this 1862 map of Milwaukee shows post offices, light houses, beacon lights, county buildings, elevator warehouses, ... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | The top map is the "Plat of Madison the Capitol of Wisconsin." The bottom map is the "Map of the Four Lake Country. Taken from the Township Maps in the U.S... |
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