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| Date: | 1809 |
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| Description: | Embroidered sampler of a map of the United States. |
| 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... |
| 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: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Diary and account book kept by Nicolaus C. Duerst. |
| Date: | 07 23 1885 |
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| Description: | Mourning Badge with the image of Ulysses S. Grant. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Threatening note signed "K.K.K." (Ku Klux Klan) with rock and rag that was thrown through Daisy Bates' window in August 1957. The note reads: "The next wil... |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Autochrome Lumiere plate box cover that originally contained four plates (plaques). |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | International Harvester light duty models (100-500) cabs and bodies color chart. Contains paint chips for the main exterior body color and matches this wit... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | International Harvester Scout cabs and bodies color chart. Contains paint chips for the main exterior body color and matches this with the interior color s... |
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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. |
| Date: | 11 14 1901 |
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| Description: | Certificate appointing Y.W. Webb to Aide-de-Camp of the Grand Army of the Republic on November 14, 1901. |
| Date: | 09 20 1902 |
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| Description: | Certification appointing George W. Webb to Assistant Inspector of the Grand Army of the Republic, Madison, Wisconsin Post. |
| Date: | 03 19 1882 |
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| Description: | Certificate creating Post Number 25, Department of Wisconsin, of the Grand Army of the Republic. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Small button tag on a string promoting "Republican, General Douglas MacArthur for President." |
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