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| Date: | 1804 |
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| Description: | Front cover of the 55-page diary, from May 14 through August 17, 1804 written by Charles Floyd, a sergeant with the Lewis and Clark expedition. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Reuben Gold Thwaites, secretary of the State Historical Society, at his desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Thwaites succeeded Lym... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of Raja Radhakant Deva Bahadoor (1783-1867), Indian scholar and author. Best known for writing the Sanskrik Encyclopedia, Sabdakalpadruma (... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Business stationery of George B. Peck, editor of Peck's Sun, a Milwaukee newspaper. Peck was well-known for his humorous column, "Peck's Bad Boy," a... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Mr. Edward Schildhauer sitting at a desk and writing in a book. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Illustration to the story The Yellow Wallpaper, depicting a woman seated in a rocking chair next to a window writing. The caption reads, "I am sitti... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio photograph of Louis Brosemer wearing a suit and hat. He is standing before a United States flag holding an oversized pen as though it wa... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Side view of a man sitting on a horse-drawn mower in a field. The man on the mower is writing on a piece of paper. Another man wearing a bow tie is sitting... |
| Date: | 06 28 1863 |
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| Description: | A letter written by W.D. Bartlett to his cousin describing life as a Civil War soldier. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | John Fawcett Tyrrell, handwriting expert and documents examiner of Milwaukee, standing at left of an illuminated poster, ten feet high, entitled "The Histo... |
| Date: | 1828 |
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| Description: | Increase Lapham's drawing and description of an earth borer for his handwritten manuscript, Notes and Accounts of Canals, Particularly the Ohio Canal Ne... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Professor William F. Allen seated and writing at a desk in the study of his home at 228 Langdon St. His son Will is seated in a chair and reading. A large ... |
| Date: | 08 1889 |
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| Description: | A key to the members of the 29th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, consisting of a piece of paper with numbered circles punched through it. When this key is p... |
| Date: | 08 1871 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Photocopy of the hotel register at the De Pere House De Pere Wis from Friday August 4 to Tuesday August 8 1871. Among names to be noted are... |
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