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| Date: | 1800 |
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| Description: | Needlework scene on silk worked in colored silk thread using running and crewel stitches. The hands and faces of the figures are watercolor on paper. Sce... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Punch paper "Home Sweet Home" sampler. |
| Date: | 11 22 1927 |
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| Description: | Souvenir envelope mailed by John A. Lester on the flight that inaugurated air mail service between Madison and Minneapolis in 1927. Madison's first incomin... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Passenger ticket and baggage check for Northwest Orient Airlines, illustrating their newly initiated around-the-globe routes to the Far East. This ticket w... |
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| Description: | A souvenir from a national model airplane competition. A member of Hangar 13 of Beloit, Wisconsin was a contestant in this event and added this item to his... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Apparatus for limnological research conducted at Trout Lake, Wisconsin and elsewhere. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Mission patch design for Apollo 13. This patch was worn by Commander James A. Lovell, Jr., formerly of Milwaukee; John L. Swigert, Jr.; and Fred W Haise, ... |
| Date: | 07 23 1885 |
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| Description: | Mourning Badge with the image of Ulysses S. Grant. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Ivory check-woven cotton; machine-sewn; slightly dropped waistline; straight, unfitted bodice; knee-length skirt, gathered into waistline; full puffed slee... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Match book cover distributed by the Superior Match Company of Chicago. The front cover says, "I like McCarthy and his Methods. I am with Joe McCarthy in ... |
| Date: | 1801 |
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| Description: | A silver letter seal, which belonged to Charles Langlade. |
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| Description: | A stuffed toy goat with a gray body and a red tail, beard and ears. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cover of a box produced by The Singer Manufacturing Company, which holds "Costumes of All Nations" souvenir cards, created for the 1893 World's Columbian E... |
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| Description: | A red, fringed Indian (Native American) pouch with fabric patches that read "U.S. Army" and "POW-MIA". |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Autochrome Lumiere plate box cover that originally contained four plates (plaques). |
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| Description: | Label from a Fromm Golden Glory Fox fur. The company's insignia is a stylized fox head. |
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| Description: | Pen and ink memento of General William T. Sherman's Civil War campaign at Atlanta, Georgia, with pieces of a Union Flag attached. |
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| Description: | Application to admit a child to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, at Madison, Wisconsin, who had lost their father in the Civil War. |
| Date: | 12 15 1864 |
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| Description: | A notification of the President's thanks and certificate of honorable service to the 160th Regiment of Ohio Volunteers. |
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