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| Date: | 1821 |
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| Description: | Canadian Prairie Indians on Snowshoes. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of members of a Whitewater, Wisconsin football team. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Students surround a partially-dissected cadaver at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of Christopher Columbus and hi... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for Champion reaping and mowing machines manufactured by the Champion Machine Company. The cover features a color illustra... |
| Date: | 02 04 1864 |
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| Description: | Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Diploma awarded to fire fighter James Richard Cummings for his service to Madison in 1869. The diploma is illustrated with scenes of fire fighting heroics,... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Institutional fire fighting department at the Northern Hospital for the Insane, executing drills on the exterior of the building. Fire fighting equipment i... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Boys outside tent that has sign, "Boys of the Hawthorne" above its door. This picture is identified as the Chicago Traveling Club's trip #8. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Workers during the construction of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin building. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Asaph Whittlesey dressed for his journey from Ashland to Madison, Wisconsin, to take up his seat in the state legislature. Whittlesey is attired for the lo... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | The storefront of Nicholas Kettenhoffen's "Graves Stones & Markers." Three men are standing in front of the store with three large grave markers. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Ashley Bennett ("Cookie") who volunteered his services during the float, and the cook Mike Lane, on the Arpin fleet of lumber rafts. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | In a posed scene, the photographer, wearing sleeve protectors, stands on the porch holding a bucket and large measuring cup while his smiling wife Clara th... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Group of medical students (?) and instructor (?) posed around a cadaver. Presented by Dr. John G. Meachem III of Racine, Wis. Probably a dissection class a... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Front cover featuring a color illustration of a man forging a chain on an anvil. He is wearing a winged helmet with the word "Progress" on the front. The c... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Two advertising cards featuring a color illustration of a caricature of a baseball player. The card on the left is titled: "A close Affair. Hugging the Bat... |
| Date: | 05 14 1886 |
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| Description: | Printed announcement of the opening of the Madison Fire Department. At the top, in a circular frame, is a fire fighter driving a horse-drawn fire engine. B... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd of people standing near an artesian well. Men wearing long coats and hats to protect them from the water are standing on and unde... |
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