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| Description: | Townspeople fleeing the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Milo Milton Quaife (1880-1959), serving as director and editor from 1914 to 1920. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | A depiction of groups of people viewing a panorama of landscapes on red walls in a large room, some seated at round tables. This sketch accompanies an Aust... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | A view of the Synagogue with a one-horse carriage in the foreground. Hölzlhuber occupied the position of organist and choirmaster for this congregation unt... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | On an excursion to the South in November 1859, Hölzlhuber made the three-day trip on the steamboat Planet from St. Louis to New Orleans. In the harb... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Levi B. Vilas built this house in 1853 at 521 North Henry Street on the corner of Langdon Street. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hugo Ballin's "Spirit of Labor" mural from the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Caption reads: "Spirit of Labor, by Hugo Ballin. Mural Decoration. Capitol... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Mural within the Wisconsin State Capitol depicting two women as "The seeker of knowledge at the shrine of wisdom". |
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| Description: | Left panel of the Wisconsin History Centennial mural by William A. McCloy. Assuming a prominent place is Robert M. La Follette, Sr. He is standing in fro... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Painting, in the Wisconsin State Capitol, of "The Signing of the American Constitution," one of four mural paintings by Albert Herter on the west wall of t... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of farm and farmhouse, residence of Mr. Daniel Lewis. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Painting of farm depicting farmhouse, barn, and windmill. Located east of Gotham on Old Lone Rock Road. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of large brick building (cooperative store) with three open arches on the porch area, and arched windows. There is a house near a bluff in th... |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn wagons, also known as milk buggies, dropping off cans of milk at the country cheese factory during summer. |
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| Description: | A farm boy is riding the "hay-fork horse" as the farmer is loading hay into the barn during haying time in July. |
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| Description: | A farm family takes part in milking time. The mother carries a milk can and a stripping bucket while the boy pushes milk cans on a cart toward the barn. Th... |
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| Description: | A harvest scene in which an old-fashioned steam-powered tractor is hooked up to a threshing machine. There is a pile of coal next to the tractor and a tank... |
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