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| Date: | 10 28 1931 |
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| Description: | Abraham Lincoln impersonator, Charles E. Bull, of Hollywood, California, and Jesse S. Meyers, commander of the Madison G.A.R. post, stand in front of a por... |
| Date: | 10 28 1931 |
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| Description: | Abraham Lincoln impersonator, Charles E. Bull, Hollywood, California and Jesse S. Meyers, commander of the Madison G.A.R. post, and two other men are stand... |
| Date: | 10 19 1931 |
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| Description: | Edison kinetascope, patented in 1897, one of the first motion picture projectors invented by Thomas A. Edison. It is hand cranked and chain driven. |
| Date: | 10 17 1928 |
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| Description: | Interior of Kilowatt clubhouse on Lake Monona. There is a piano along the back wall. A sign painted along a beam on the ceiling reads: "To err is Human — t... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of an oval-shaped pendant with a portrait of General Daniel Brodhead (October 1736-November 1809) of Pennsylvania. General Brodhe... |
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| Description: | Chinko The Juggler balances a large portrait of a woman on his head. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1903, the year in which a constitutional amendment approved expansion of the court from five to seven judg... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Detail of the 1903 group portrait of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, showing Justice Robert G. Siebecker, then the least senior member of the court. Siebecker... |
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| Description: | A portrait engraving of John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. president, with an inset of "Treaty With the Osages" at the bottom. |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Portrait of North American Indians (Plate 1). "The group in Plate No. 1 is composed of three Portraits from my collection, representing three different t... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indians with ball-playing equipment, believed to be used in the game of Lacrosse. (Plate 21) "In devoting a few of the last pages of this work to some o... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | A portrayal of the effects of contact with whites on the Assiniboine chief, Wi-Jun-Jon. (Plate 25). "In offering this illustration to the reader, I am re... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of William Horlick (1846-1936), by Harold A. Stewart. |
| Date: | 03 10 1909 |
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| Description: | Drawing of James Horlick (1844-1921), was done by Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (1851-1922). Under the pseudonym "Spy," Ward contributed portraits of famous peop... |
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| Description: | Sign above the main entrance of the Oshkosh Brewing Company, which uses an illustration of Chief Oshkosh as part of its logo. The sign was installed there... |
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| Description: | Engraving of John Adams with an inset of "M. Tallyrand Receiving the American Envoys, 1797." |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Frontispiece to Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien (1655). |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Depicts Indians encountered on the Barlowe and Amadas Expedition in Virgina, ca. 1584. |
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