Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | The Wisconsin State Capitol (the second State Capitol, the first in Madison). Illustration from the American Encyclopedia, Columbus, 1859. |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | The Ludemann's [also spelled Lueddemann] farm had been cultivated since the early 1850s by Mr. Ludemann, "a very pleasant Saxon with his very pleasant wife... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | View along bridge of paddle boats and ships in the harbor, pedestrians, and the town in the background on the other side of the river. |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | View from bridge on river. Storefronts and homes line the road that stretches to the horizon. |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | Political cartoon for Presidential Campaign that is Pro-Fremont, anti-Buchanan. John C. Fremont, Republican, and his wife Jessie Benton Fremont, are shown ... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | "At the Grand Kakalin where the river runs almost directly eastward, Brookes and Stevenson paused to paint two scenes. One was a broad landscape showing th... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | "The second view at the Kakalin, from the north side of the river, shows the first or guard lock in the foreground and beyond the dam the large frame build... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center. The first, a double lock around which the village of C... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center . . . [One of them] is Little Chute, one of the pleasan... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center....The third, another rural river scene, whose composit... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | "....The third view was twelve miles farther up the river [from De Pere], at Rapid Croche, on the border of the present Brown and Outagamie counties. It is... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | " . . . The first in their series was not an 'improvement' but a view of the Green Bay settlement, looking downstream. From a simulated rustic fence corner... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | " . . . At Grand Chute stood the young settlement of Appleton. Although only a few years old, it already boasted a college, named, as was the village itsel... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | ". . . The upper Grand Chute was the last of the 'improvements' paintings signed by Brookes and Stevenson. Yet there were two more vital links in the Fox R... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | "After painting a number of Fox River scenes, "the artists continued their way to Fond du Lac, at the south end of Lake Winnebago, where they found some mo... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of Mary Louise Baker Lidgerwood Browne. Daughter of Charles Minton Baker of Lake Geneva. Taken in New York before her family jour... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | Lithographic view of Four Legs Village at the outlet of Lake Winnebago. There are is a person in a canoe on the river and a large tree in the foreground. S... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | Lithographic view of the Grande Chute Falls on the Fox River. There is a tent on the shore on the right. |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | Lithographic view of a man in a canoe on Big-Foot's Lake (modern day Lake Geneva) with a small settlement on a bluff overlooking the lake. A group of birds... |
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