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| Description: | Painted portrait of Souligny, a chief of the Menominees. He is depicted wearing a James Madison Peace Medal. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Jean Nicolet (1598-1642) was the first European to see Wisconsin and was a prominent French explorer who, for many years, lived among the Indians of Quebec... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Governor and Civil War General Lucius Fairchild (1831-1896) by John Singer Sargent. |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Austin E. Quinney with a dog. |
| Date: | 12 1927 |
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| Description: | "This scene can be dated by the homemade calendar under the wall clock. It is December of 1927. Farmers were prospering at that time, as was the rest of th... |
| Date: | 1839 |
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| Description: | Painted portrait of Wa-me-ge-sa-ko, or The Wampum, the head chief of the Chippewas, Pottawattamies and Ottawas. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | At the opening of the railway between Grandhaven and Grand Rapids, Michigan on July 26, 1857, the locomotive Grand Rapids was manned by the railroad... |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | A watercolor of prehistoric Indians building an effigy mound. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand oil painted holiday card on wood. The scene is a seashore with foliage and rocks, two houses in the distance, and a snow-covered mountain in the backg... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Holiday card, hand-painted on an oval piece of wood. Image is of a little girl in profile wearing a yellow dress with black polka dots, and a red bonnet. S... |
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| Description: | Hand-painted holiday card of three African American children eating watermelon. One girl sits on the ground, a boy has a watermelon in his lap, and the sec... |
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| Description: | Black ink line and wash drawing of a Nativity scene in a circular composition of the Christ Child, Mary and Joseph. There is a star at the upper left. Prin... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | An album page titled Christmas 1899 is decorated with watercolor painted figures. These include a sprig of mistletoe with two berries and the Fargo ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Young student's crayon and watercolor art inspired by Earth Day, consisting of a large setting sun with mountains and trees in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Young student's crayon and watercolor art inspired by Earth Day, consisting of a sun with a smiling face surrounded by a field of blue filled with birds an... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Young student's crayon and watercolor art inspired by Earth Day, consisting of a fish jumping out of the water at the center of a sun design and surrounded... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Young student's crayon and watercolor art inspired by Earth Day, consisting of Earth seen from space overlapping the Moon. A fish, a bird, and a sun decora... |
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