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| Date: | 07 24 1862 |
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| Description: | Poster calling for the recruitment of volunteers from Grant County for the Union Army during the Civil War. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Advertising card for William Deering & Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a man showing "The Deering Binder, carefully studied and ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Foldout cards in a 10-page brochure for Fuller & Johnson Mfg. Co., Ltd., manufacturers of farm implements, based in Madison, WI. The top illustration is fo... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam stretched from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean.... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | A fire fighter stands over a fire as he trains his hose on the flames. This depicts the close proximity to the fire fire fighters were required to work be... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Two tone lithograph of a pile of Lake Superior whitefish and trout on the lakeshore with a man and boat in the background. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison over rooftop and across lake with sailboats and steamers. A group of people are standing on a viewing platform on the roof in th... |
| Date: | 02 04 1864 |
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| Description: | Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Portrait of North American Indians (Plate 1). "The group in Plate No. 1 is composed of three Portraits from my collection, representing three different t... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indians on foot and horseback capturing wild horses (Plate 4). "Taking the wild horse and breaking him down is one of the proudest feats of the Indian an... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indian on horseback hunting buffalo with bow and arrow (Plate 5). "In this picture we have the Indian mounted his wild horse, he is captured in the mode ... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indians on horseback hunting buffaloes (Plate 6). "In this Plate, representing a numerous group in motion, and closely pursued by a party of Indians, wit... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indians on foot and horseback hunting buffaloes (Plate 7). "The buffalo is a harmless and timid animal until severely wounded, or closely pursued, when i... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Ceremonial Indian dance (Plate 8). "All tribes have their medicine songs particular for the hunting of each animal they choose to go in pursuit of, and b... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indians on horseback hunting buffaloes (Plate 9). "Some sixty or seventy young men, all mounted on their wild horses, and armed with bows and lances only... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Buffalo chasing hunter with rifle on horseback (Plate 12). "The wounded and chafed bull often turns upon its assailant, and runs him back, over the whole... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indians disguised as wolves hunting buffaloes (Plate 13). "Of the white wolf and its habits I have given an account in Plate 10, and although these anima... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indian dance on snowshoes. (Plate 14). "In the northern latitudes of America, where the winters are long and very severe, from the heavy falls of snow wh... |
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