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| Date: | 06 1837 |
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| Description: | Lithograph based on a painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey showing the Peck cabin, the first house in Madison. In addition to the cabin, the lithograph includes a ... |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Wahk-Tä-Ge-Li, a Sioux Indian in warrior dress. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Chippewa Indian Sugar Camp. Plate 61, preceding p. 199, vol. I, The Indian tribes of the United States: their history antiquities, customs, religion, ar... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | The original caption reads: "A Hupa youth is waiting with poised spear for the shadowy outline of a salmon lurking in a quiet pool and gathering its streng... |
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| Description: | Commemorative Civil War roster of First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, Wisconsin Hussars Squadron "G." Depicts "Our Country as it was in 1860" with ... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | "Kearsarge and Alabama: Hauling Down the Flag." A color lithograph published by L. Prang & Co. of Boston. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | General Winfield Scott is chopping down a tall tree with an ax. Eight frightened men cling to the upper limbs. Caption below reads, "The downfall of Secess... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A freed slave with a hoe in his left hand and his right hand on his hip. Caption at the top reads, "Massa can't have dis chile, dat's what's de matter." Ca... |
| Date: | 1625 |
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| Description: | An illustrated map of the world with captions in Latin. Illustrations include depictions of the seasons and the elements. |
| Date: | 05 11 1938 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of two men using dynamite to break rock. One man is prying at a crevasse with a pole. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Linoleum cut engraved view of men building a log cabin. One man carries a log in the background near a lake or river, while another man nails a log held in... |
| Date: | 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Linoleum cut print of a man using a cant hook to move logs. Other lumberjacks work in the background. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “... |
| Date: | 05 14 1886 |
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| Description: | Printed announcement of the opening of the Madison Fire Department. At the top, in a circular frame, is a fire fighter driving a horse-drawn fire engine. B... |
| Date: | 1839 |
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| Description: | Cut-away lithography illustration of a mining operation, showing men lowering a miner into a mine where several other men are working. |
| Date: | 11 24 1861 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of midshipman using a hammer for nailing the American flag to the mast, a symbol that they will not lower the flag in surrender. 4 page, folded,... |
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