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Date: | 1835 |
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Description: | Waa-Na-'Taa or The Foremost in Battle, Chief of the Sioux Tribe. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Prairie du... |
Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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Description: | Seaman 1st class Tom Teeley with newsboy, Bernard Ehrmann, holding a copy of the Wisconsin State Journal with headline declaring peace in the Pacific. Cele... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Harriet Douglas Whetten (b.1822). Whetten was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. She served on hospital ships out of New York and Philadelphia from 18... |
Date: | 1887 |
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Description: | Portrait of Governor and Civil War General Lucius Fairchild (1831-1896) by John Singer Sargent. |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | An important event of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was commissioned in 1903 by Robert Laird McCormick, president of the State Historical Society o... |
Date: | 1972 |
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Description: | A crowd of anti-Vietnam war demonstrators march down Wisconsin Avenue with signs and banners. One banner reads: "Stop the Bombing. Sign the Treaty Now! U.S... |
Date: | 1861 |
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Description: | Thomas Bigford (in cap, on left) and another official swearing-in two Native American Civil War recruits. Thomas Bigford (1815-1890) of Taycheedah, Wiscons... |
Date: | 1849 |
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Description: | Full-length portrait of Austin E. Quinney with a dog. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Deer hunters' camp in Northern Wisconsin. Image includes six hunters and their dogs posed in front of their cabin with hanging deer carcasses. |
Date: | 1952 |
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Description: | A Wisconsin family inside their new bomb shelter. |
Date: | 07 1959 |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
Date: | 11 1964 |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle on the Don Phuc command post, in front of a stack of sandbags, on the Vietnam-Cambodia frontier. Chapelle resided at this post for 34 days,... |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Pehriska-Ruhpa. Minatarre warrior with bow and arrow in the costume of the dog dance. |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | Motor Corps of the National League for Women's Service. The corps performed errands and other services for all organizations engaged in war activities, ans... |
Date: | 1851 |
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Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wisconsin Governor Julius P. Heil, and other officials touring the Allis-Chalmers plant. |
Date: | 05 17 1934 |
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Description: | Group portrait of 22 disabled American veterans who are Forget-Me-Not ice cream bars vendors. They are posing in front of 503 State Street with boxes of ic... |
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Description: | A smiling USO staff worker serves pancakes to hungry soldiers. |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I. |
Date: | 11 11 1957 |
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Description: | Uptown Post #400 Drill Team in formation firing a salute on Armistice Day while passers-by pause to pay their respects. |
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