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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Front page of booklet with an engraving of a man with a team of two horses in a field with the "Celebrated Gorham Sulky Cultivator." |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Front cover of catalog for mowing and reaping machines. The cover has a red and black design surrounding a tilted inset illustration of a man using a mower... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Lithographic view of Four Legs Village at the outlet of Lake Winnebago. There are is a person in a canoe on the river and a large tree in the foreground. S... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Lithographic view of the Grande Chute Falls on the Fox River. There is a tent on the shore on the right. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Brochure cover of Diamond Plows, Sulky & Gang, featuring an illustration of a landscape. |
| Date: | 08 1949 |
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| Description: | Brochure for the forty-eighth Annual Regatta of the Inland Lake Yachting Association features a photograph of ten sailboats and a motorized judges' boat. E... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Features an illustration of a man gesturing across a large empty space (possibly water) towards a factory operating at night. The same man is looking at a... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The centerfold of a promotional brochure features a photograph of the Hotel Glenwood and a description of the springs on the grounds. The hotel, with large... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Halftone print of the landscaped shoreline and path at Forest Glen, the estate of Edward G. Uihlein, on the western end of Geneva Lake. A flag flies above ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Halftone print of two divers in mid-air as other young men watch from the pier at the Y.M.C.A. camp on Geneva Lake. A sailboat is moored to the pier, which... |
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| Description: | An illustration depicting various aspects of Indian life, including dancing, a sweat lodge, cooking, and burial of the dead. Indians are referred to as "sa... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Pictograph E., Plate 63, "Kaizheosh, and his Band from Lake Vieu Desert. Michigan and Wisconsin." A group of symbols including birds, animals, a fish and a... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for The Steam Yacht "Mendota." At the top is an engraving of the steam yacht under way loaded with passengers, and below is text. Some of the... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Map showing operations in Virginia during Wilson's Raid. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Illustration of Father Florimond Bonduel baptizing a Menominee woman named Nakam by pouring water from a clam shell onto her head. The woman is kneeling at... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Map showing territory controlled by the Finches, a family of bandits who terrorized south central Wisconsin in the years prior to the Civil War. The map in... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A view across water towards the Lake Geneva Hotel, also called Hotel Geneva. There are several boats and piers at the water's edge. Two men are boating in ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The north shore of the Lake Geneva outlet. |
| Date: | 11 1964 |
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| Description: | Fold-out map of the zoo inside a publication titled: "Henry Vilas Park Zoo: An Instructive Book on the Origin and Habits of Animals." Includes Lake Wingra,... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of Brittingham Bay taken from the north west shore of Brittingham Park. The boathouse is on the left. On the right the railroad tracks cross... |
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