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Ebenezer Brigham

Date: 1856
Description: Quarter-length oval portrait of Ebenezer Brigham, founder of the first major community in the Blue Mounds of Wisconsin, which included a mine, frontier inn...
Drawing

People Sketches

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Description: Various sketches of people's faces.
Drawing

People's Faces

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Description: Preliminary sketches of people's faces. Shows several women and one bearded man.
Drawing

Paul Bunyan

Date: 1916
Description: Drawing of a wild-looking Paul Bunyan.
Poster

Nitty Gritty Poster: You Are Wanted in Here

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Description: Hand-drawn poster that was originally displayed outside of The Nitty Gritty in Madison, Wisconsin. Reads, "You Are Wanted in Here!".
Poster

Wisconsin Traveler Poster

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Description: Poster publicizing "Wisconsin Traveler," possibly a musical group. Features a hand-drawn and hand-colored drawing of a fiddle player, a banjo player, and s...
Drawing

Robert Spencer

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Description: Engraved quarter-length portrait of Robert Spencer.
Drawing

Colonel Ellsworth Sketch

Date: 1858
Description: Original sketch drawn by Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth in 1858 at Madison, Wisconsin, and presented to N.B. Van Slyke. Col. Ellsworth commanded the 1st Zouaves a...
Drawing

Vet Cong

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Description: A black ink drawing of Vietnam veterans standing together. The man in front is holding a sign that reads, "Vietnam, Forgive Us. Vietnam Veterans Against Th...
Drawing

"I Always Knew What Wuz Wrong . . ."

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Description: Drawing of a bearded man sitting on a tree stump. In front of him is a fishing pole held in place by a rock. At the end of the line is a bobber floating in...
Drawing

"What I Need is a Good Retriever!"

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Description: Drawing of a man sitting on the fence pointing his finger, with the caption: "We got pointers and setters. — But what I need is a good retriever!" A dog is...
Drawing

Sandals

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Description: Drawing of red-bearded leprechaun with a pipe in his mouth. He is holding up a curved bat (perhaps a shillelagh) in one hand and an oversized three-leafed ...
Drawing

"When St. Peter Sees Me Coming"

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Description: Drawing of an aged, smiling, bare-footed angel in a white robe and with a long beard and mustache, wings, and a halo above his head. He is lounging on a cl...
Drawing

Brevet Brigadier General Thomas Scott Allen

Date: 1868
Description: Engraved lithograph of a waist-up portrait of Brevet Brigadier General Thomas Scott Allen. Allen was a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly f...

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