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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the city of Manitowoc with a population of 5,168 inhabitants as it appears in 1870, the year the village was granted a city charter by t... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view drawing of the grounds of Villa Louis, the estate of the fur trading Dousman family. After the death of H. Louis Dousman's mother in 1882, ... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Civil War commemorative roster of Company F, 11th Wisconsin Infantry, Harvey Zouaves of the Eleventh Regiment. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of a map drawn to indicate a mine on land owned by Mineral Point Mining Co. in the lead region of southwestern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 11 26 1846 |
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| Description: | A drawing by Thomas Steel of his farm property contained in a letter Steel wrote to his father James Steel. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Cartoon on the last page of a McCormick catalog. The cartoon depicts the World's Fair field-trials in Wayne, Illinois, at which the McCormick mower prevail... |
| Date: | 10 19 1847 |
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| Description: | Sketch of the Camden Depot in a letter from John McRae to James Gadsdeg. |
| Date: | 09 20 1891 |
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| Description: | Political cartoon from the Washington Post. It refers to the role of Jeremiah M. Rusk, the Secretary of Agriculture from Wisconsin, in negotiating i... |
| Date: | 04 05 1862 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Camp Douglas near Chicago. Caption reads: "Camp Douglas, near Chicago, Illinois, where seven thousand rebel prisoners are quartered." |
| Date: | 05 23 1863 |
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| Description: | Cartoon appearing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Page 144. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Copperheads nominally favored th... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | A hand-drawn poster, produced by S.W. Martin's Writing Academy of Madison, listing the officers and men of the 1st Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, ... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn poster by S.W. Martin of the Civil War officers and men of the Kickapoo Rangers of the 12th Regiment, Company K. Above and to the left of the li... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Diagram of an effigy mound in the shape of a cross. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Map of a portion of Merton including the Bark River, a mill, Fort Hill, and Indian mounds. |
| Date: | 06 28 1850 |
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| Description: | Letter from Increase Lapham to his wife, Ann Maria Alcott, in Milwaukee. Lapham was at Aztalan and wrote to Anna regarding the geology of the region. He in... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | John Fawcett Tyrrell, handwriting expert and documents examiner of Milwaukee, standing at left of an illuminated poster, ten feet high, entitled "The Histo... |
| Date: | 1828 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter-length drawing of Thomas Kidd speaking and gesturing. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length drawing of Clarence Darrow speaking at the People's Party Convention held at Uhlrich's Hall in Chicago. |
| Date: | 08 05 1820 |
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| Description: | Sketches of Native American marks in James Doty's travel journal. Most of the marks represent different types of fish. |
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