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| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Jean Nicolet (1598-1642) was the first European to see Wisconsin and was a prominent French explorer who, for many years, lived among the Indians of Quebec... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Painted scene of an Indian guide paddling, Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary standing, and Louis Joliet, a fur trader paddling in a canoe exploring th... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Cover for the Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape program. Depicted is a river cascading over rocks, and some trees in the foreground. The Wisconsin ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Cover for the 1969 Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape program. Depicted is a tree with white blossoms, yellow flowers, and a pathway leading up to a... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Cover for the Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape program. Depicted are two geese and a duck on a lake. The Wisconsin Friends chapter was founded in ... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Cover for the 1960 Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape program. Depicted are some vibrant purple flowers, with a lake in the background. The Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Cover for the 1948 Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape program. Depicted is a sketch of a tree, a fence, and a small town by a lake. The Wisconsin Fr... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Cover for the 1956 Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape program. Depicted are some white flowers with green leaves, a lake, and some birds flying in t... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | The Stoner house, located at 321 South Hamilton Street. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | The Benjamin Franklin Hopkins house, 142 East Gilman Street, built by Hopkins about 1850. The house was later owned by Dr. William Jacobs. The square bay ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | The Simeon Mills (farm) house located at 2709 Sommers Avenue. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | The Oscar D. Brandenburg house, 22 Langdon Street. Later the Theta Delta Chi fraternity house. Razed and replaced in 1972 by the Langdon Apartments. Oscar... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | The sandstone house known as Walker's Castle was located in the 900 block of East Gorham Street. According to newspaper articles, it was built in about 186... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two preliminary watercolors of the right panel of the Centennial Mural in the Wisconsin Historical Society. The panel displays the history of Wisconsin ex... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A watercolor of the right panel of the Centennial Mural in the Wisconsin Historical Society. This panel displays the history of Wisconsin exploration, mos... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View from Brisbois Point. Prairie du Chien lies below, and beyond the Mississippi River rise Iowa's hills. |
| Date: | 10 07 1934 |
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| Description: | James Jacco, Red Cliff Chippewa, and William Webster, Odanah Chippewa, competing in a lacrosse game. |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand oil painted holiday card on wood. The scene is a seashore with foliage and rocks, two houses in the distance, and a snow-covered mountain in the backg... |
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