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First Farmers Alliance

Date: 1877
Description: The first Farmers Alliance — also known as the Southern Alliance — is shown in front of the cabin in which their first formal meeting was held in 1877 in P...
Photograph

U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention

Date: 1890
Description: Slightly elevated view of the members of the United States Pharmacopeial Convention and their families standing for a portrait at Mount Vernon.
Photograph

The Wisconsin State Assembly in Session

Date: 02 15 1899
Description: The Wisconsin State Assembly in session in the second Wisconsin State Capitol, with observers looking on from the gallery.
Photograph

Native American Delegates

Date: 10 1898
Description: Native Americans, possibly delegates to council at the Leech Lake Agency. This image is part of a collection of images of the Ojibwa-Pillager Battle at Su...
Photograph

Leech Lake Agency Council

Date: 10 1898
Description: Men gather at the Council at the Leech Lake Agency. W.A. Jones is seated second from the right. This image is part of a collection of images of the Ojibw...
Photograph

Native American Group

Date: 1898
Description: A group of Native Americans gathers, possibly during council at the Leech Lake Agency. This image is part of a collection of images of the Ojibwa-Pillager...
Photograph

"Fort Hindman"

Date: 1862
Description: Union gunboat "Fort Hindman," a small side-wheel steamship.
Print

Public Meeting Notice

Date: 09 1838
Description: A public notice of a meeting that nominated Hon. James Duane Doty for Delegate to Congress for this Territory. Other names on document; Hon. Gilbert Knapp,...
Book or Pamphlet

Complimentary Excursion to General Passenger & Ticket Agents Dinner Menu

Date: 09 1887
Description: Dinner menu from the souvenir booklet of the Complimentary Excursion to General Passenger & Ticket Agents, with a be-ribboned golden dinner bell suspended ...
Photograph

Portrait of the Portage Old Settler's Club

Date: 05 28 1898
Description: Seated, posed group portrait at the annual meeting, outdoors at the semi-centennial celebration in Sherman's Grove. Identified from left: John Eckles, Ed....
Document

Farmers Home League Recordbook Page

Date: 10 06 1860
Description: Minutes from a meeting of the Farmers Home League of Monroe, Wisconsin. The page contains a partial list of settled claims against the League and the amoun...
Poster

Union Meeting Flyer

Date: 1864
Description: A flyer distributed by the U.S. Christian Commission announcing a Union Meeting "in behalf of our sick and wounded soldiers...". Several edits have been ma...
Manuscript

Meeting Minutes

Date: 06 07 1895
Description: One page of minutes from a meeting of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.

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