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: | 1860 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Janesville from the High School building. |
Date: | 1854 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue a... |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Elevated illustration of a farmhouse, with fences around it, a cowboy on horseback overseeing cattle, and a horse-drawn carriage on the street in front of ... |
Date: | 1888 |
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Description: | Advertising brochure for the Reeves Extension Oscillating Straw Stacker, with testimonial clippings. Features a color illustration top center, showing a ma... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Advertisement for the Randall Harrow, manufactured by the Warrior Mower Company. Features a color illustration of a farmer using the harrow in a field. |
Date: | 1859 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the fairgrounds in Milwaukee, the year when Abraham Lincoln spoke. The fairgrounds were located at the Brockway Grounds near Twelfth and S... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Advertising card produced by Warder, Mitchell and Company, manufacturers of the Champion line of agricultural machinery. Features a color illustration of a... |
Date: | 1859 |
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Description: | Flyer and order form advertising McCormick's Reaper and Mower. Features the headline "15,000 sold in the last 4 years" under an illustration of the reaper... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Elevated view across street towards the Case Residence. People are in a horse-drawn carriage in the foreground. |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Old Milwaukee County Court House and adjoining buildings as they appeared from 1836 to 1870. Scene also shows pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles. |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | The building has a fence around it and the yard is filled with trees. Pedestrians are in the road, as well as a man riding a horse. |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. From left to right: Ladies Hall, South Dormitory, Bascom Hall, and North Dormitory. Trees are on the hill, and a f... |
Date: | 1615 |
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Description: | Drawing of Native Americans chasing deer into an enclosure during a hunt. |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Engraved illustration of "Walnut Grove," the "homestead of the McCormick family" in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Cyrus Hall McCormick developed the first s... |
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Description: | Cartoon drawn by Clare V. "Dwig" Dwiggins depicting a youthful August Derleth walking by a graveyard that is haunted by ghosts and spirits. Derleth was fo... |
Date: | 08 1862 |
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Description: | Color lithograph of Union lines in the midst of battle. |
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Description: | Engraving excerpted from John S.C. Abbott's History of the Civil War in America. |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Soldier-farmer, "Jeffy" (Jefferson) Davis, in full uniform with a straw hat is giving feed (bonds) to a sow (the Confederacy). The sow is in turn feeding i... |
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