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| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Constructing the Madeline Island Historical Museum in La Pointe which consists of four separate buildings. L-to-r: jail; American Fur Trade storage buildin... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a courtroom scene framed with a draped American flag and th... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of La Crosse with nine insets of residences, schools, and the Court House and Jail. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Alleged traitor stands on trial before seated Algerian soldiers. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Waupun on the Rock River. There is an inset at top center of "Althouse, Wheeler & Co., Windmills and Pumps." |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | A traitor, with hands held near his face, stands before the Algerian rebels in the Atlas Mountains. This is the actual trial. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin game warden removes a dead deer in the snow that had been struck by a vehicle from a rural Vernon County highway next to a deer crossing sign. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Courthouse built in 1836, then torn down in 1871 to make way for a new structure. Tall central building with two wings coming off the sides. Path in fron... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view at an angle towards the left and front of the courthouse. A large statue is on top of the main dome. The area around the courthouse ... |
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| Description: | View across field and fences toward the refirnatory on top of a hill. A tree-covered hill rises above the complex in the background. Outbuildings are at th... |
| Date: | 06 18 1918 |
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| Description: | Dedication ceremony for Muir Knoll on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Judge Milton S. Griswold is speaking at flag-draped podium, and a ... |
| Date: | 04 1997 |
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| Description: | Arrest of Nukewatch demonstrators at a Nevada test site. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Hong Kong police with jeep who followed journalist Cecil Brown as he traveled along the border with Communist China. |
| Date: | 04 1960 |
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| Description: | In April 1960 a student uprising created a crisis within the South Korean government and the army was called out to keep the peace. Ultimately President Sy... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A map of Wisconsin showing the seventeen judicial circuits of the state. The map also shows the counties of Wisconsin and the total population of each of t... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A map of Wisconsin showing the state’s judicial districts, it also provides the population total for each county. |
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| Description: | Map covering most of Georgia and South Carolina, showing defenses along the seacoast and around the principal towns, Confederate prisons at Andersonville a... |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin was considered part of Michigan Territory until 1836, a year before Michigan entered statehood. Drawn three years before Wisconsin entered stateh... |
| Date: | 03 28 1960 |
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| Description: | While en route from Oregon prison farm to Oscar Mayer and Co., three cows were frightened by an ambulance siren on the 700 block of West Washington Avenue ... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Evacuation route out of Milwaukee. View from the side of the road looking downhill towards the rear of a Wisconsin State Patrol cruiser parked on the right... |
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