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| Date: | 1746 |
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| Description: | This world map from the German mathematician, historian, and geographer Johann Matthias Hase shows the major cities, islands, and the major political divis... |
| Date: | 1556 |
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| Description: | One of the earliest obtainable maps to accurately (for its time) depict the Americas, this map shows more decorative than descriptive features. A few river... |
| Date: | 1636 |
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| Description: | Map of North America, divided into regions, and showing some rivers, lakes, settlements, cities, mountains, and Native American land. Of the Great Lakes on... |
| Date: | 1740 |
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| Description: | Map including the regions and cities of the northern half of North America. Native American land, rivers, lakes, mountains are labeled. Mountains, marshes,... |
| Date: | 1759 |
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| Description: | Map of north eastern Canada and parts of New England, showing settlements, cities, portages, Native American land, mountains, lakes, and rivers. The unusua... |
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| Description: | Red octopus with a black hat on its head, and all its arms marked by the name of kinds of taxes, such as "Utility Tax" and "Food Tax." On the face of the o... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of three fisherman, Clyde (Bud) Chamberlain with his creel, Stan Hamre, who has fallen backward into the water, and Carl Vo... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Mosaic in the north/central lobby floor of the Wisconsin Historical Society. This is the printer's mark for Jehan Frellon, a prominent printer in Lyons, Fr... |
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| Description: | Drawing of a disheveled fisherman with a cigar in his mouth holding up his thumb to hitchhike. He is holding a fish in one hand, and a fishing rod is resti... |
| Date: | 05 10 2015 |
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| Description: | Several figurines, starfish, and shells sitting on top of a lace runner on an end table. The figurines include: a young boy carrying two pails of milk, two... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a young boy in front of a lake holding up and examining a crayfish. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View towards a group digging for fresh water mussels in Archibald Lake. From left to right: a woman waist-deep in the water; a boy holding onto the side of... |
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| Description: | Walking beam of the wrecked steamer Niagara covered with quagga mussels at the bottom of Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Jeannette Holt (far left) is standing in the water near the shoreline with one foot up on a log. She is balancing a metal pail on her knee, which has a scr... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "The 'Friendly Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wisconsin." Text on reverse reads: "No vacation trip to Northern Wisconsin is complete without a ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "'The Buckhorn,' Rice Lake, Wis." The Buckhorn Tavern had an amazing display of taxidermy and curios, including some hoaxes: a shovel-... |
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