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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the Winnebago attack on the Gagnier homestead in 1827 and the killing of Registre Gagnier. The homestead w... |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Engraving depicting the defeat of Black Hawk by General Henry Atkinson at the Battle of Bad Axe on August 2, 1832. The engraving depicts Federal Regulars a... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Probably Native Americans receiving instructions on compass use for Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View towards a man standing with two children, a boy wearing a hat and suspenders, and a girl wearing a dress. They are standing in front of a bear hide st... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A map that shows the lands for sale by the Tomahawk Land Company of Tomahawk, Wisconsin, in the counties of Langlade, Lincoln, Oneida, and Price. The map s... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Pioneer Beer, G. Weber Brewing Co." Under this in the center is a leaf with the lett... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lithograph of Little Elk (Hoo-Wan-ne-ka), chief of the Ho-Chunk, as he appeared during an official visit to Washington, D.C. in 1824. This por... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A survey map of Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota, with the township surveys for portions of the Saint Croix region in progress. The maps also show the Meno... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | This map of the entire state of Wisconsin depicts the township survey grid and identifies counties, named towns, cities and villages, rivers, lakes, railro... |
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| Description: | A night view of automobiles in the parking lot at the Stand Rock Amphitheater, where the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial is performed. |
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| Description: | Cigar box cover with a head and shoulders portrait of Nelson Dewey. Beneath his portrait is a Native American headdress, a tomahawk, a stone club and a qui... |
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| Description: | A large group of Native Americans, men, women and children, posing on rocks along the Wisconsin River. They are wearing traditional clothing, and some of t... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Native Americans, including Ho-Chunk, Sioux, Kiowa and southwestern Native American tribes, posing on rocks along the Wisconsin River wea... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | This map shows the location of major settlement regions for various ethnic groups. Includes a legend in lower left hand corner. Sparse settlement is repres... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Diagrams of four effigy mounds surveyed by Increase A. Lapham and W.H. Canfield in 1850. No. 1 is an unidentified animal shape, No. 2 consists of two linea... |
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