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Grant Family Bible Page

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Description: Page, removed from the Grant family bible, containing an image of Jesse R. Grant, father of Ulysses S. Grant.
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Wasmuth Portfolio Manuscript Page

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Description: First page from the Wasmuth Portfolio, text written by Frank Lloyd Wright. The manuscript, written by Wright in Italy, also includes more than forty sketc...
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Business Stationery of George Peck

Date: 1882
Description: Business stationery of George B. Peck, editor of Peck's Sun, a Milwaukee newspaper. Peck was well-known for his humorous column, "Peck's Bad Boy," a...
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Richland Co. Scott Guard of the Fifth Regiment

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Description: Pen-drawn poster listing the officers and men of Company H. Includes small oval portraits of some of the officers.
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Nathan Myrick's Account Book

Date: 1841
Description: Inside front cover and first page of Nathan Myrick's 1841-1842 account book showing his purchase of supplies at Prairie du Chien for the establishment of h...
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Nathan Myrick Post Office Letter

Date: 1891
Description: Letter from Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, Estes G. Rathbone, regarding the establishment of the Post Office at La Crosse and Nathan Myrick's appoint...
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Brundage Family Resettlement

Date: 1935
Description: Page 2 of textual description of Brundage family and their resettlement from poor farmland to land better suited to agriculture.
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Earth Borer

Date: 1828
Description: Increase Lapham's drawing and description of an earth borer for his handwritten manuscript, Notes and Accounts of Canals, Particularly the Ohio Canal Ne...
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I.M. Singer's Will

Date: 07 16 1870
Description: The front page of the last will and testament of Isaac Merritt Singer, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company.
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International 624 Tractor Lifting a Circus Elephant

Date: 1973
Description: Page describing in German the International 624 tractor, lifting an elephant. The tractor is owned by the Bouglione Circus.
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Genealogical Chart

Date: 02 01 1981
Description: A genealogical chart of the descendants of Benjamin A. Nones and Miriam Marks.
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1849 Assembly Bill 122

Date: 03 1849
Description: Exterior of Wisconsin Assembly Bill 122 of 1849 which established equal suffrage for African-American men pending passage of a state-wide referendum vote. ...
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Plant Classification Lecture

Date: 09 1870
Description: The first page of a handwritten lecture titled "On the Classification of Plants" by Increase Lapham.

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