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Old Abe Ferrotype

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Description: Ferrotype of "Old Abe," the bald eagle mascot of the 8th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War. The young bird has brown head feathe...
Drawing

Golden Eagle On Barrel

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Description: Charcoal drawing of a golden eagle perched on a barrel. Likely the wild golden eagle Andy Johnson, the mascot of the Forty-Ninth Wisconsin Civil War Infan...
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Old Abe Collector Card

Date: 1865
Description: Old Abe, eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment. Popular cards sold in great quantities as benefit items ($9 per 100), so great was this bird's fame. ...
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Old Abe Collector Card

Date: 03 1865
Description: Old Abe, eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment, 1865 or 1870. Popular cards sold in great quantities as benefit items ($9 per 100), so great was this...
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Old Abe

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Description: Print of a painted portrait of Old Abe, bald eagle mascot of the Eighth Regiment of the Wisconsin Civil Volunteer Infantry, standing on a perch. "Old Abe" ...
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Old Abe Composite

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Description: Composite paste-up intended to represent "Old Abe," eagle mascot of the Eighth Wisconsin Regiment in the Civil War with his bearer. At the Northwest Sanita...
Photograph

Old Abe on a Plank

Date: 1870
Description: Old Abe, eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Old Abe is perched on a plank of wood with the American flag painted on it. The portrait is...
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Old Abe Perched on a Board

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Description: Stereograph of Old Abe, eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment. Old Abe is standing on a log-type bird perch attached to a shield with the Am...
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Old Abe

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Description: Side view of Old Abe perched on a shield with the American flag painted on it. The words "Old Abe" are printed at the bottom. Authenticity of this image d...
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Stuffed Old Abe

Date: 1890
Description: "Old Abe," eagle mascot of the 8th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. After his death in 1881 he was stuffed, mounted, and put in the Capitol museum.<...
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Old Abe Reproduction

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Description: An eagle of the same type as "Old Abe," eagle mascot of the 8th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, displayed in the Civil War Roo...
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Old Abe in Front of a Flag

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Description: Photograph of a painting of "Old Abe" by L.A. Dow, 1905. The original painting is in the War Museum, Wisconsin State Capitol, Madison, Wisconsin. Old...
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Dessicated Cat Mascot, Anubis

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Description: Ellen MacQuarrie (later Ellen Wilson), a journalist at the "Milwaukee Journal" and the wife of Gordon MacQuarrie, looking at Anubis, the dessicated cat tha...
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Admiring the GOP Mascot

Date: 1960
Description: Ralph H. Bonnell, delegate from the Republican Party of Massachusetts, admires the GOP mascot, an elephant, with another unidentified man at the Republican...
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Rohde's Steak House Football Luncheon Menu Exterior

Date: 1964
Description: Exterior of the Rohde's Steak House special football luncheon menu, with a photograph of the University of Wisconsin coaching staff for the 1964 season (Fr...
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Gridiron Club Spring Dinner Menu

Date: 05 21 1949
Description: Menu, mounted on board, for the spring dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by (Clifford K.?) Berryman of "Dr. Truman's Utopia Elixir: Relief for Ev...
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Gridiron Club Spring Dinner Menu Souvenir

Date: 04 10 1948
Description: Menu souvenir, mounted on board, of a "They Went Then Till They Came to the Delectable Mountains" cartoon by Clifford K. Berryman for the spring dinner of ...
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Gridiron Club Menu Art Souvenir

Date: 12 11 1948
Description: Two cartoons (by Clifford K. Berryman?) for the winter dinner of the Gridiron Club, each entitled, "Gridiron Forecast 1948": one of Thomas Dewey holding a ...
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Hotel Wisconsin Meatless Tuesday Menu

Date: 10 02 1917
Description: Carte du jour Meatless Tuesday menu from the Hotel Wisconsin, with the hotel's logo, a badger standing over the letter "W."
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Wisconsin State Fair Letterhead

Date: 1941
Description: Letterhead for the ninety-first Wisconsin State Fair, held August 16-24, with a profile view of a badger set in a banded red semi-circle. Printed in red an...

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