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| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The cover of a book entitled "Hero-Worship" written by John Bascom, with his autograph to Breese Stevens in the upper righthand corner. The autograph reads... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Membership certificate of the Athenaen Society of the University of Wisconsin presented to Charles Fairchild in 1857. The society was a student literary an... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Commencement program of the University of Wisconsin, July 28, 1858. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Newspaper clipping, copy of lithograph, of how Ripon College looked in about 1900. Indicates West College, Middle College, East College and Congregational ... |
| Date: | 1774 |
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| Description: | Ticket for the Harvard College Lottery. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Robert von Schlagintweit (1833-1885), German orientalist, geographer and explorer. Along with his oldest brother Hermann, Rober... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Charles A. White (1826-1910), an American geologist and paleontologist. White was the State geologist of Iowa in 1866-70, and a... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Edwin C. Bolles (1836-1920), professor of English and American History at Tufts. He is best known for amassing a vast archive o... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Professor Joseph H. McChesney, a geologist and paleontologist associated with the Illinois State Geological Survey. Shown here ... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Whittlesey (1808-1886), American Geologist. Fought in the Black Hawk War. Opened a law office and newspaper in Clevelan... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887), American ornithologist and ichthylogist. In 1838, Baird met John James Audubon, after whic... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite of Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland (1793-1877), American scientist. Kirtland, among many other exploits, worked on the 1837 Ohio geolog... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867). Worked as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry at University of Pennsylv... |
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| Description: | Cabinet card of Samuel Sterling Sherman (1815-1914), American educator. In 1842, Sherman became president of Howard College in Alabama, which was later ren... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length carte-de-visite of Alexander Winchell (1824-1891), State Geologist of Michigan and Professor of Geology and Paleontology at the University o... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of Johnathan Lang Cassells (1808-1866), Scottish-born chemist. Worked as a physician and a Professor of chemistr... |
| Date: | 04 1966 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Ramparts," an underground newspaper, featuring a drawing of then Vietnamese first lady Madame Nhu in a Michigan State University cheerleading uni... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing a lecture by Peter Saul, a visiting artist in the University of Wisconsin-Madison art department. Features a crude cartoon of a woman ho... |
| Date: | 02 1908 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Greene Memorial Library of Milwaukee-Downer College (now the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). The image is part of a 14-page pamphl... |
| Date: | 03 1962 |
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| Description: | Photostat copy of statement of policy from American Book Company, publisher of McGuffey Readers, indicating that the company did not advocate use of the Re... |
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