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| Date: | 02 1892 |
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| Description: | Engraving of a fur trader standing in the middle of a circle of seated Indians in their council tepee. |
| Date: | 03 1892 |
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| Description: | Engraving of voyageurs gathered around a fire at their camp. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. At the center is a portrait of Cyrus McCormick inside an egg shape with... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Members of Commander Atillio Gatti's tenth African expedition taking photographs from the top of an International truck. Native Africans are standing, hold... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two preliminary watercolors of the right panel of the Centennial Mural in the Wisconsin Historical Society. The panel displays the history of Wisconsin ex... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A watercolor of the right panel of the Centennial Mural in the Wisconsin Historical Society. This panel displays the history of Wisconsin exploration, mos... |
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| Description: | Posthumous portrait of Christopher Columbus (c. 1451 – 5/20/1506), navigator, colonizer, and explorer, by Italian Renaissance painter Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (... |
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| Description: | Explorer Dr. Fredrick A. Cook (6/10/1865 – 8/5/1940) in fur-lined coat with hood. Cook is notable for his claim of having reached the North Pole on 4/21/19... |
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| Description: | A portrait (etching) of Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville (7/16/1661 — c. 7/9/1706), soldier, ship captain, explorer, colonial administrator, knight of th... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Large Letter style postcard for Green Bay depicting various scenes in the letters that spell the name of the city. Caption reads: "Greetings from Green Bay... |
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| Description: | Older woman standing outdoors next to a sculpture of Thorfinn Karlsefni, an Icelandic-born Scandinavian explorer of North America. Behind her is the Schuyl... |
| Date: | 1720 |
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| Description: | Double hemispherical world map showing routes of Tasman, Magellan, Mendana, etc. Relief shown pictorially. Title in oak wreath cartouche. Map between four ... |
| Date: | 02 22 1892 |
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| Description: | Back cover, front cover, and menu page for the Old Settlers' Club of Milwaukee County annual banquet. The back page includes an illustration of a monument ... |
| Date: | 1735 |
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| Description: | A map of the western hemisphere, including parts of western Europe and Africa. Portraits of explorers, such as Jacques Marquette, Louis Joliet, and Robert ... |
| Date: | 1710 |
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| Description: | A seminal and fairly accurate map of the Great Lakes Region up to Baffin's Bay in Northern Canada. This is possibly the first printed map to locate Detroit... |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Mural Decoration, Brown County Courthouse." Text on reverse reads: "This mural decoration, on the south wall of the east entrance hall, rep... |
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