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| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Christmas and New Years greeting card from Hosea W. Rood, presumably sent to his comrades of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company E, who had been... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Engraving of a woman sitting in a chair with light from an attic window shining on her face. Next to her is a rumpled bed and a pull-toy overturned on the ... |
| 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: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Female students practice painting and drawing in an art class session at the State School for the Deaf as a teacher assists in the background. |
| Date: | 05 14 1887 |
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| Description: | Cartoon of a three-headed hydra representing oleomargarine, threatening a farmer. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Two drawings illustrating a hyperbolic comparison between a society which permits drinking of alcoholic beverages and one that does not. |
| Date: | 08 02 1862 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of several men in a long trench digging Grant's canal on the Mississippi River opposite Vicksburg. |
| Date: | 11 01 1879 |
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| Description: | A cartoon depicting General M.C. Butler of South Carolina in fine clothing standing next to an African American who is on his knees, surrounded by small bu... |
| Date: | 08 12 1876 |
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| Description: | A cartoon depicting General M.C. Butler, holding a top hat in his left hand, and carrying an umbrella under his right arm standing next to dead African Ame... |
| Date: | 08 12 1876 |
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| Description: | A cartoon depicting Justice holding bodies on her scale, one white and six black. The caption includes the phrase: "Five More Wanted." |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves. |
| Date: | 11 02 1889 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of a government snagboat removing obstructions from the channel of a western river. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Magazine illustration of the home, titled: "Soldiers' National Asylum at Milwaukee, Wisconsin". The building is in the background, and in the foreground ar... |
| Date: | 01 09 1883 |
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| Description: | A large crowd is on the street surrounding the burning building. Fire fighters are struggling with horses pulling the fire engine, and on the left a group... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A political cartoon satirizing the Republican Party as a bloated man squashing the Labor Party, which is depicted as a working man. |
| 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: | 07 10 1880 |
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| Description: | Large crowd of people in ter hall for the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Political cartoon for Presidential Campaign that is Pro-Fremont, anti-Buchanan. John C. Fremont, Republican, and his wife Jessie Benton Fremont, are shown ... |
| Date: | 04 23 1860 |
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| Description: | Drawing of The National Democratic Convention in session at Charleston, South Carolina. |
| Date: | 04 05 1862 |
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| Description: | Group of Confederate prisoners of war assembled in prison barracks. |
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