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Capitol (Third) Rotunda Section

Date: 1857
Description: Section drawing of the rotunda of the third Wisconsin State Capitol (second in Madison) by Stephen V. Shipman. August Kutzbock and Samuel H. Donnel were th...
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Green Bay Intelligencer Newspaper Office

Date: 1857
Description: Green Bay Intelligencer Newspaper Office. This was the first newspaper published in Wisconsin. The building was on Main Street. This drawing appeared in an...
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Man Clinging to Plank after Steamer Sinks

Date: 1857
Description: Illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper of John Tice clinging to a piece of wreckage after the sinking of the steamer Central Amer...
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Tice and Grant Rescuing Dawson from the Raft

Date: 1857
Description: John Tice and Alexander Grant helping George W. Dawson from a floating piece of debris into a lifeboat after the sinking of the steamer Central America<...

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