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| Date: | 05 1864 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of Camp Randall, where the majority of Wisconsin's soldiers were trained and mustered into the Union Army. This view, which was taken from Basc... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Civil War handbill that reads: "Charleston Mercury Extra...The Union Is Dissolved!" |
| Date: | 05 1866 |
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| Description: | Engraved exterior view of a smelting furnace with a small group of men with horses gathered in front. |
| Date: | 05 1866 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of two men in a train locomotive observing the weighing of pig lead. Several bars of lead are stacked near the scale. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Poster calling for volunteers for the Civil War, claiming "Highest Bounty And Pay!". |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison, with 12 vignettes and in the center is "The Capitol of Wisconsin View from the Capitol House". The buildings on the top are, fr... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Janesville from the High School building. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Portrait engraving of James Monroe from a painting by Alonzo Chappel. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A head and shoulders portrait of James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States, 1857-1861. Buchanan was born in Cove Gap near Mercersburg, Pennsylva... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Detail (central image) of "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers" showing Camp Asylum in South Carolina. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | "Colonel B.J. Sweet's 21st Wisconsin Volunteer Regiments." Lithograph of the 21st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, on Parade at Camp Bragg (now Menom... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | "Camp Casey near Fairfax Seminary, Virginia 1st Brigade, Casey's Division". Handcolored lithograph of site of Camp Casey. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Black & white lithograph by Milwaukee lithographer Louis Kurz depicting the Madison Turners or Turnverein at a shooting party on the Madison lakefront. Th... |
| Date: | 10 24 1863 |
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| Description: | Panoramic wood-engraving of a cattle fair in New Haven, after a sketch by H.C. Curtis. Caption reads: "Cattle Show and Agricultural Faib [sic] at Ha... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Wisconsin Governor James Lewis. Lewis' signature is below the engraving, and underneath the signature is printed: "Governor of Wiscons... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | E.T. Mix designed the original building of the National Soldiers Home in 1867. At the time the structure was dedicated on 28 September 1867, the wings had ... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | 1868-1875. Founded by Dr. Joseph Salzman (featured in the vignette at left, teaching). Vignette, lower left, features St. Francis Seminary, founded in 1856... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Madison showing a train in the foreground. The 2nd State Capitol (1st in Madison) can be seen on the horizon. |
| Date: | 07 21 1861 |
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| Description: | Depiction of the battlefield. Engraved by J.C. McRae and drawn by W. Momberger. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Aerial view, probably from a lithograph, of the prison for Confederate soldiers at Rock Island. |
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