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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Cover of a pamphlet, printed in German, advertising land for sale in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Two dog-sledges hauling supplies, with one also carrying a Mandan. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | The main deck of The Tuisco, showing groups of immigrant men, women, and a child in brightly colored clothing, conversing while standing below a ful... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | The Tuisco left Bremerhaven May 6, 1856. Hölzlhuber called this the "quickest three masted immigration boat," holding 335 passengers. Though in the ... |
| Date: | 01 1874 |
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| Description: | Interior of a coach on an emigration train to the west. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Cover of a 31-page pamphlet promoting Wisconsin to German immigrants, which translates to read "Wisconsin. An Account of the Population, soil, climate, Com... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Cover of a brochure in German for Wisconsin immigration. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Cover of a Wisconsin immigration brochure in German. |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Cover of a brochure in German for Wisconsin immigration. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Cover of a brochure in German for Wisconsin immmigration. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Blue cover design of an official report entitled "Wisconsin. What It Offers to the Immigrant". |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Crowd gathered at Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Station to see off a colony of emigrants from Chicago who planned to settle in Colorado on a tract of land p... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Large group of people leaving a steam ship, some transporting large chests of their belongings. |
| Date: | 03 28 1882 |
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| Description: | U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor Naturalization service form 2203, Declaration of Intention for Antoni Plichta filled out in Cook County, Illinois. |
| Date: | 04 01 1867 |
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| Description: | Castle Garden Emigrant Agency poster advertising railroad travel rates for emigrants. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Norwegian language Board of Immigration publication promoting Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Advertisement printed in German for a ship from Bremen to New York with $24 fare. There is a woodcut of a sailing ship at the top. |
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