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| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a woman, who is sitting with her left arm resting on a desk or table. She is wearing a jacket, hat, skirt, and pants. According to History o... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Oval-framed quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Margaret Marie Watson Allis, wife of Edward P. Allis. |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Edward Phelps Allis, an industrialist who formed the Edward P. Allis Company in Milwaukee, initially manufacturing milling equipment b... |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of David Agry, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the Brown County district, 1848-1849. He was a lawyer, jurist, and... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Lithographic portrait of John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (1825-1829) on his deathbed. |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of James Monroe Gillet, around the time he founded the newspaper The Fond du Lac Whig. |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Map of Wisconsin, including lower western border with Iowa, southern border along Illinois, eastern shoreline of Lake Michigan, and northern area along Wis... |
| Date: | 11 21 1847 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of the burning of the steamer Phoenix on Lake Michigan, 17 miles from Sheboygan. Survivors are floating on debris in the water, and a ... |
| Date: | 03 1849 |
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| Description: | Section 2 of Assembly Bill 122 for the year 1849 which established equal suffrage for African-American men pending passage of a state-wide referendum vote.... |
| Date: | 03 1849 |
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| Description: | Section 1 of Assembly Bill 122 for the year 1849 which established equal suffrage for African-American men pending passage of a state-wide referendum vote.... |
| Date: | 03 1849 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Wisconsin Assembly Bill 122 of 1849 which established equal suffrage for African-American men pending passage of a state-wide referendum vote. ... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Reverend David Lowry. Lowry was appointed to be a teacher for the Ho Chunk (Winnebago) Tribe by Andrew Jackson. In 1834, he started a ... |
| Date: | 1843 |
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| Description: | Drawn diagram of a head in profile with sections mapped for phrenological associations. Each numbered section is illustrated with an image representing the... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Version of the Wisconsin Seal found in The American's Own Book, 1849. It depicts a plow and a bundle of wheat in the foreground, and a steamship on ... |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | A wooden building enclosed by a fence. Caption on rear of photograph reads: First Church In Sauk-Prairie-Roxbury Region - 1846. Reproduction of an early ph... |
| Date: | 04 13 1849 |
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| Description: | A letter written by William Warren to his cousin George Warren. |
| Date: | 05 19 1849 |
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| Description: | Page one of the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung," a German newspaper published by Karl Marx in Cologne. |
| Date: | 02 21 1844 |
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| Description: | An engraving of a hot air balloon. |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | This map surveyed under the direction of Captain Thomas J. Cram is one in a series of seventeen that accompanied Cram's report on the Fox-Wisconsin river s... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | This map surveyed under the direction of Captain Thomas J. Cram is one in a series of seventeen that accompanied Cram's report on the Fox-Wisconsin river s... |
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