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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of George Washington, copied from the Athenaeum portrait by Gilbert Stuart, painted in 1796. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | James K. Proudfit, adjutant general of Wisconsin, in uniform. |
| Date: | 05 1833 |
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| Description: | Painting of Black Hawk by Robert M. Sully. Black Hawk, a Native American Sauk warrior and leader, sought to attack and drive out the settlers in the Blue M... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | The main deck of The Tuisco, showing groups of immigrant men, women, and a child in brightly colored clothing, conversing while standing below a ful... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | A view of the Synagogue with a one-horse carriage in the foreground. Hölzlhuber occupied the position of organist and choirmaster for this congregation unt... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Hölzlhuber journeyed from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky, and from there took a train south to Cave City, from which passengers boarded a stagecoach for t... |
| 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: | 1858 |
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| Description: | "One of the most interesting expeditions which I have ever made in my life was a trip on a hand-car," Hölzlhuber wrote. Julius Movius, the General Agent fo... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Friedrich Flersheim immigrated from Mecklenburg to Illinois in the early 1850s, and after farming for a time built this distillery on the Black River in Wi... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | In his journal Hölzlhuber described his departure from Milwaukee. "I spent the last night from May 3rd to 4th, 1860, upon the ocean steamer Milwaukee |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Beginning at Odanah just south of Lake Superior, Hölzlhuber and several fur trappers used an Indian trail to travel upstream through extensive wild forest.... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Hölzlhuber felt his most interesting experiences in America were his interactions with southern slavery. "My sketch here shows a negro family as I saw them... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Levi B. Vilas built this house in 1853 at 521 North Henry Street on the corner of Langdon Street. |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | A painting of an Oneota farmer with village in the background. |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | A painting of an archaic Indian mining for copper. |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | A watercolor of a group of Indians sitting around a fire under a cliff. |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | A watercolor of a set of archaic Indian deer hunters with their kill. |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | A watercolor of prehistoric Indians building an effigy mound. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Frederick Horn (1815-1893), a Democrat. He was a lawyer and editor of the Cedarburg Weekly News. His years of public service began in 1842 and ... |
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