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Military Band at Lookout Mountain

Date: 1864
Description: Albumen stereograph of the Union Army brass band posed and playing atop Lookout Point. The Tennessee River is in the background.
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New Science Hall, Chemical Laboratory & Machine Shop

Date: 1887
Description: Engraving of an elevated view of Science Hall, Chemical Laboratory and Machine Shop on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Ho-Chunk Powwow Participants

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Description: This photograph of Ho-Chunk powwow participants is a copy made by Van Schaick. From left to right are: John Hazen Hill (HaNaKah), William Hall (HunkKah), W...
Photograph

Taliesin

Date: 1913
Description: Elevated view of Taliesin. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green.
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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ...
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Pictured Rocks, Lake Superior

Date: 1821
Description: Engraving of the Pictured Rocks shoreline viewed from Lake Superior.
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Mass of Native Copper on the Ontonagon River

Date: 1821
Description: Engraving depicting the Schoolcraft expedition crossing the Ontonagon River to investigate a copper boulder.
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Village of Folle-Avoines

Date: 1842
Description: A Menominee village as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited the Green Bay area about 1838. The detailed, ...
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Junction of the Yellowstone River with the Missouri

Date: 1832
Description: Junction of the Yellowstone River and the Missouri River.
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Herd of Bison, on the Upper Missouri

Date: 1832
Description: Herd of Bison, on the Upper Missouri River.
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Flute Ceremony

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Description: Ho-Chunk flute ceremony or prayer for rain. Four Ho-Chunk kneel in a square. A flute player and a man with a rattle stand behind on a low, round stone wall...
Book or Pamphlet

Gathering Wild Rice

Date: 1884
Description: Three women in a canoe harvest wild rice.
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Fence of Old Wagon Wheels

Date: 05 17 1966
Description: A fence made of old wagon wheels above a stone retaining wall.
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Randall School Children Painting Mural

Date: 10 16 1934
Description: Randall School, 10 N. Spooner Street. Two children are painting a mural of a neighborhood scene.
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Christ Presbyterian Interior

Date: 09 20 1934
Description: Christ Presbyterian Church chancel area, 124 Wisconsin Avenue. The new oak choir screen is designed to harmonize with the Byzantine period treatment of the...
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Mrs. Frances Hawkins Painting in the Studio

Date: 04 25 1932
Description: Artist Frances Hawkins sitting in a wicker chair and painting at the easel in her studio.
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Mystics on WIBA Radio

Date: 12 09 1930
Description: WIBA "Mystic Myrah and Lorenz," seers, reading mail from listeners in the Fern room. Patrick Shannon from WIBA, observing.
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WIBA Fern Room

Date: 12 05 1930
Description: WIBA fern room with piano, organ, ferns, and a turntable. There is a Teddy Bear on top of the organ on the right, and on the left is a bird in a birdcage.
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Historia Antipodum oder Newe Welt

Date: 1655
Description: Frontispiece to Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien (1655).
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A Sea Otter

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 43. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.

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