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| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Pen sketch of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., by Willy Pogany in 1924. The original bears La Follette's signature. |
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| Description: | Jane Addams holding an open book, surrounded by immigrant children. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Charcoal portrait of George Baxter Burrows. A Wisconsin State Senator (1878-1882) and real estate broker, he willed his twelve-acre Lake Mendota frontage e... |
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| Description: | Hand-colored drawing of President Abraham Lincoln. This image is one of several on a page from the Grant family bible. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Major General C.C. Washburn in uniform. |
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| Description: | A sketch drawn from a formal photographic portrait of Mrs. Major Belle Reynolds. During the Civil War many women enlisted in armies or traveled with their ... |
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| Description: | Portrait sketch of Wilfrid Laurier. Laurier was Canada's first French-Canadian prime minister. His time in office was from 1896-1911, a critical time in th... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Illustration of Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) men. One of them may be Yellow Thunder. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Captain Augustus Quarles of Southport (now Kenosha) who served in an Illinois Regiment during the Mexican War. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Pencil sketch of Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy who is buried in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Original sketch drawn by Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth in 1858 at Madison, Wisconsin, and presented to N.B. Van Slyke. Col. Ellsworth commanded the 1st Zouaves a... |
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| Description: | An engraved portrait of James Monroe (4/28/1758 - 7/4/1831), the fifth President of the United States (1817-1825), derived from the painting by neoclassici... |
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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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