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Magazine or Periodical

The "Bloody Shirt" Reform

Date: 08 12 1876
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...
Document

1893 World's Fair Award, Appleton Woolen Mills

Date: 1893
Description: Award certificate presented to the Appleton Woolen Mills at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. The company won a bronze medal at the Fair for its paper makers...
Print

Cottage Inn

Date: 1835
Description: Two-story home with sloping roof. One man is whipping a team of eight cattle while another man drives the plow behind them. To the left stands a man near a...
Print

Drawing of Grand Turk on Mississippi River

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Description: Drawing of Grand Turk steamboat on the river's edge. Print is part of a series collected in Lewis' "Das Illustririte Mississippithal".
Magazine or Periodical

Government Snagboat

Date: 11 02 1889
Description: Engraved view of a government snagboat removing obstructions from the channel of a western river.
Magazine or Periodical

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

Date: 1870
Description: Magazine illustration of the home, titled: "Soldiers' National Asylum at Milwaukee, Wisconsin". The building is in the background, and in the foreground ar...
Print

Prentiss Residence

Date: 1840
Description: Home of William Augustus Prentiss, built in 1836 and burned in 1845. Small two-story house. Four people are standing around the house.
Drawing

Wisconsin Turns Its Back on the Soup Kitchen

Date: 02 1932
Description: Engraving by Charles Silver to mark the passage of Wisconsin's Unemployment Compensation Law, the first in the nation.
Print

Looking North from Reed Street

Date: 1860
Description: Image drawn by Franz Hölzlhuber of early Milwaukee settlement with a horse-drawn carriage, as well as industry and a railroad. The text on the image reads:...
Print

Carl Schurz

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Description: Steel engraving of Carl Schurz.
Print

General Carl Schurz

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Description: Engraved portrait of Carl Schurz, a German immigrant who settled in Wisconsin in 1855. President Abraham Lincoln appointed Schurz to the rank of general in...
Magazine or Periodical

The First Mountain To Be Removed

Date: 07 22 1905
Description: A cartoon titled "The First Mountain To Be Removed" showing Uncle Sam and Theodore Roosevelt looking at a mountain shaped like a skeleton wearing a mask an...
Magazine or Periodical

The Great American Durbar

Date: 03 04 1905
Description: A political cartoon titled "The Great American Durbar", showing a parade of political characters featuring Theodore Roosevelt perched atop an elephant symb...
Print

Democratic Ticket

Date: 1860
Description: 1860 Presidential Democratic ticket headed by John C. Breckenridge (it should be spelled Breckinridge), and the vice-president, Joseph Lane, that was distr...
Print

Indian Prophet's Lodge

Date: 1855
Description: An illustration of an Indian prophet standing by his lodge, which has symbols drawn on and floating above it. Others are seated, watching him. Two persons ...
Magazine or Periodical

The Democratic Convention at Cincinnati

Date: 07 10 1880
Description: Large crowd of people in ter hall for the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati.
Print

Samuel Tilden

Date: 1876
Description: An engraving from a photograph of Samuel Tilden.
Magazine or Periodical

The National Democratic Convention

Date: 04 23 1860
Description: Drawing of The National Democratic Convention in session at Charleston, South Carolina.
Magazine or Periodical

Rebel Prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois

Date: 04 05 1862
Description: Group of Confederate prisoners of war assembled in prison barracks.
Print

Indians Trapping Deer

Date: 1615
Description: Drawing of Native Americans chasing deer into an enclosure during a hunt.

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