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| Date: | 1820 |
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| Description: | Narrative Journal of Travels from Detroit Northwest through the Great chain of American Lakes to the sources of the Mississippi River in the year 1820. Ill... |
| Date: | 1820 |
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| Description: | Narrative Journal of Travels through the northwestern regions of the United States, extending from Detroit through the great chain of American lakes to the... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Letterhead for Moulton, Moran & Co. The logo shows North America and depicts Superior as the center of a hub with spokes going to Russia, to China and Japa... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Rand, McNally map of North America enhanced to show Superior as the center of a wheel. The image was used on the back of stationery from City Improvement C... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Official copy of Cyrus McCormick's 1834 reaper patent. This copy was made by the Patent Office at the request of the McCormick family. |
| Date: | 05 1863 |
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| Description: | Two pages, dated May 23-24, 1863, of a diary kept by H.H. (Henry Hamilton) Bennett during the Civil War. |
| Date: | 02 13 1862 |
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| Description: | Letter describing gun invention and Bradford's intentions for improvements. |
| Date: | 03 19 1874 |
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| Description: | A written request for membership for Charles H. Klippert and Philip Kuhles into the College of Pharmacy in New York. |
| Date: | 11 18 1857 |
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| Description: | Unpaid bill in the amount of $5,000, owed by Jairus Fairchild, President of Watertown and Madison Railroad, to Bank of the Republic. |
| Date: | 10 08 1862 |
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| Description: | An introduction to the Kentucky Papers, written by Spencer Records, which begins, "I have written the following narrative partly for my own satisfaction an... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Columbia County Atlas Arlington Township 10 North Range 9 East. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Petition to President Abraham Lincoln for the establishment of soldiers homes and hospitals in Wisconsin. The petition is signed by 18 women. |
| Date: | 11 1862 |
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| Description: | List of supplies issued to Cordelia Harvey for her soldiers' hospital. |
| Date: | 12 15 1862 |
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| Description: | Letter from Cordelia Harvey to Governor Edward Salomon regarding her work. |
| Date: | 07 08 1863 |
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| Description: | Diary entries for July 7 and 8, 1863 written by Emilie Quiner while caring for Union soldiers in Memphis, Tennessee. |
| Date: | 08 06 1886 |
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| Description: | A certificate from the Grand Army of the Republic, announcing that Lucius Fairchild on August 6, 1886 was elected Commander in Chief of the 16th annual Nat... |
| Date: | 08 06 1886 |
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| Description: | A certificate from the Grand Army of the Republic, announcing that Lucius Fairchild on August 6, 1886 was elected Commander in Chief of the 20th annual Nat... |
| Date: | 09 03 1896 |
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| Description: | Memorial and Resolution adopted by the Thirtieth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, held in St. Paul, Minnesota. In Memoriam of past Co... |
| Date: | 05 18 1886 |
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| Description: | Certificate commissioning J.W. Oakley Aid-de-Camp in the Grand Army of the Republic. It is signed by Lucius Fairchild. |
| Date: | 03 19 1882 |
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| Description: | Certificate creating Post Number 25, Department of Wisconsin, of the Grand Army of the Republic. |
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