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Painting

Valentine

Date: 
Description: Watercolor valentine written by a young man and given to one of the daughters of Louis Dousman, probably Violet or Virginia.
Painting

Holy Card

Date: 1900
Description: Holy card with watercolor of a wreath of white flowers encircling an open book resting on a cross and crown of thorns.
Drawing

Time Saving Chart

Date: 
Description: Drawing of a time saving chart for one day's labor in a sawyard shop.
Drawing

Barman — Bill

Date: 1932
Description: Bill bartending at The Stonewall.
Drawing

Plan of the Town of Clarksville

Date: 1780
Description: Hand-drawn plan for the layout of the town of Clarksville, bordering Mayfield Creek and Liberty Creek. Fort Jefferson is shown between the townsite and the...
Drawing

Plan of Ohio River

Date: 1780
Description: Drawn plan of Ohio River and area to the West.
Drawing

Clark's Illinois Grant

Date: 1780
Description: Plan for layout of 150,00 acres which make up Clark's Illinois Grant.
Document

Air Wisconsin

Date: 1979
Description: Illustration from the annual report of Air Wisconsin, the first publicly held airline in the country. Air Wisconsin began in Appleton in 1963 after North ...
Drawing

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assembly Chamber Plan

Date: 1860
Description: Floor plan and seating chart for the Assembly for their first meeting in the East Wing of new Wisconsin State Capitol building. After the completion of th...
Drawing

Sketch of Trempealeau Mounds

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Description: Drawing of Trempealeau Mounds.
Map or Atlas

Procession of Mounds

Date: 1876
Description: A sketch map of the procession of Indian mounds on the two ridged field sites in Grant County.
Photograph

Haymarket Square Rally

Date: 05 04 1886
Description: Photograph of an artistic rendering of a rally held at Haymarket Square on May 4, 1886, before the explosion of the bomb. Haymarket Square is at the Inters...
Drawing

Plan of the Battleground of Huycks

Date: 08 24 1876
Description: Hand-drawn plan of the battleground of Huycks.
Drawing

Hook's Defeat

Date: 03 26 1876
Description: Hand-drawn map showing the place of Hook's defeat in York County in South Carolina.
Drawing

Hook's Defeat

Date: 
Description: Rough plat showing the area of Hook's defeat.
Map or Atlas

Diagram of Mineral Point Mining Co.'s Mine

Date: 1850
Description: Lithograph of a map drawn to indicate a mine on land owned by Mineral Point Mining Co. in the lead region of southwestern Wisconsin.
Drawing

Green Bay Intelligencer Newspaper Office

Date: 1857
Description: Green Bay Intelligencer Newspaper Office. This was the first newspaper published in Wisconsin. The building was on Main Street. This drawing appeared in an...
Drawing

Map: "Rueben North Racine, Wisconsin..."

Date: 
Description: A very vague sketch of a map of North Racine, Wisconsin.
Drawing

Map of Arkansas

Date: 
Description: A simple sketch of a section of Arkansas, showing the Arkansas River, White River and Helena, Arkansas.
Drawing

Map of the Battle of Wilson's Creek

Date: 08 10 1862
Description: A hand-drawn map of the Battle of Wilson's Creek, Springfield, Missouri. Other notes and locations include: "Lyon was killed instantly while heading his tr...

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