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| 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: | 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: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Morgan L. Martin standing in a landscape, with a dog sitting at his feet. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | "Old Abe The Live Wisconsin War Eagle," eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment painted from life perched on a flag pole. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the governor in the executive chamber. |
| 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: | 1866 |
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| Description: | James K. Proudfit, adjutant general of Wisconsin, in uniform. |
| Date: | 08 01 1866 |
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| Description: | Army commission for William H. Upham in the Fifth Wisconsin Artillery dated June 18, 1866, and signed by Andrew Johnson and Edwin M. Stanton on August 1, 1... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | A view overlooking the grounds towards the Benjamin Walker Castle, 1862-1893 in the 900 block of East Gorham Street, and its surrounding property. A man is... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | View of the shoreline on the Walker Castle grounds. Two men are boating while a young boy fishes from the shore. |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite studio portrait of man standing with a frilled-bodice, cloth hunting shirt with leather leggings. A wool plaid shawl is worn toga-style; an... |
| Date: | 04 20 1861 |
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| Description: | Elevated stereograph view of the Great Union Meeting at the New York City Union Square. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the main building, a tenement (loft style) building, at Libby Prison. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of three U.S. Army soldiers in front of tents in camp under a framework of branches. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. This building, which was destroyed by fire in 1866, was located in the commercial district known as Market Square. The Square was actually a t... |
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