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Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Milkmaid with pail and cow. Text reads: "Milking Time, Good Friends in Wisconsin, Scenes along the country roads." |
Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | Camp Randall looking southwest. In April 1861, Governor Alexander Randall asked that the State Agricultural Society fairgrounds be converted into a militar... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | McCormick Harvesting Machine Company annual catalog cover featuring an illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat. Below the text reads: "Harvesting... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | Campaign poster for Victor Berger (1860-1929), U.S. Senatorial campaign. This large poster documents Berger's campaign for United States Senate in a spec... |
Date: | 04 19 1849 |
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Description: | Poster offering $600 reward for the return of three runaway slaves in Calvert County, Maryland. The three slaves are Henry Morsell, Jim Parker, and Bill Hu... |
Date: | 03 30 1958 |
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Description: | Notice of farm auction sale for farm and personal property of Ed Gein. The farmhouse was destroyed by fire before the auction took place. |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Advertising poster showing a Milwaukee brand mower, grain binder, hay rake and reaper manufactured by International Harvester Company. Features a color ill... |
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Description: | Students in cooking class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school, operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright. |
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Description: | Illustration of the Milwaukee Light Guard depicting four men, including captain J.C. Starkweather. This is a cover from sheet music "Milwaukee Light Guard ... |
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Description: | Recruitment poster in German for the 26th Regiment of Wisconsin volunteers. |
Date: | 1846 |
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Description: | "Rules to be observed by the pupils of public schools of Milwaukee." |
Date: | 09 1871 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Peshtigo, before it was destroyed by fire on the night of October 8, 1871. |
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Description: | William H. Brisbane, Chaplain of the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry. Inset photograph taken from a large Civil War commemorative roster. |
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Description: | Cigarette Advertising card produced by Kinney Brothers. Depicted is W.J. Fitzpatrick, a jockey and 1888 winner of "The Sequence Stakes." |
Date: | 1838 |
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Description: | Naw-Kaw or Wood. Hand-colored lithograph from History of the Indian Tribes of North America. |
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Description: | Cigarette advertising card produces by Allen and Ginters. Depicted is William Muldoon, wrestler. Muldoon learned how to wrestle in the Civil War camps of t... |
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Description: | Cigarette Advertising Card produced by Allen and Ginters. John L Sullivan, boxer was considered to be the link between bare knuckles and glove fighting. Co... |
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Description: | Cigarette Advertising Card produced by Kinney Brothers. Depicted is Isaac Lewis, a jockey. Lewis rode in four consecutive Kentucky Derbies, 1886-1889, winn... |
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Description: | Cigarette Advertising Card produced by Kinney Brothers. Depicted is W.J. Fitzpatrick, a jockey and winner of "The Suburban 1886." |
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