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| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Jean Nicolet (1598-1642) was the first European to see Wisconsin and was a prominent French explorer who, for many years, lived among the Indians of Quebec... |
| Date: | 1823 |
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| Description: | In 1823 U.S. Army major Stephen H. Long led an expedition of scientific, trade, and military investigation up the Mississippi River and the Red River of th... |
| Date: | 08 31 1953 |
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| Description: | Arthur Constable displays the route of his 10-month travel route through Europe and North Africa on a map. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | This map depicts the route of the 1842 overland trip by wagon made by the Reverend Alfred Brunson and some copper miners from Prairie du Chien to the mouth... |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | This hand-colored map shows the area from Michigan west to the Missouri River and Lake Winnipeg, and includes expedition routes of Stephen H. Long and Henr... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | This map depicts Wisconsin and Michigan territories in 1836. It includes the area from Michigan to the Missouri River and Lake Winnipeg, and it shows the e... |
| Date: | 12 19 1957 |
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| Description: | Dr. Thomas A. Leonard has served as a visiting professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Vera Cruz in Mexico. Dr. and Mrs. Leonard visit ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | This manuscript map shows the route traveled by the Schoolcraft expedition in July 1831 between the Namekagon River and Lake Owen in the Town of Cable, Bay... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | This pictorial representation of part of Lake Winnebago and the Fox River in 1703, showing interactions between white beaver hunters and the Iroquois is ta... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Between May and September 1673, Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet crossed what is now Wisconsin and traveled down the Mississippi River as far as A... |
| Date: | 04 06 1960 |
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| Description: | A man (Henry Derleth) wears an overcoat while posed on the middle of the boarding stairway attached to a partially visible passenger airliner. The original... |
| Date: | 04 07 1960 |
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| Description: | Contest winner George Byrne, surrounded by his family, wears an overcoat, white shirt, tie and fedora (hat) while holding a TWA travel bag. The original ca... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of George, Louise, and Milton, their son, standing in front of a fence. They are traveling with one suitcase and a full handbag. All three a... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Menu for a reception and banquet for "Hon. Alexander Mitchell by the Citizens of Milwaukee on his return from his European Trip." At the top is a silk ribb... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | The brown leather cover of Howard Greene's journal stamped "St. Croix River Trip 1907" in gold. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View down shoreline towards the travelers pausing in their canoe journey to have lunch on the riverbank below Gordon Dam. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The brown leather cover of Howard Greene's journal documenting a canoe trip down the Chippewa River. The title "The Chippewa River Trip, August-1916" is st... |
| Date: | 08 1916 |
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| Description: | Two of The Gang (maybe Jack and Dad) canoeing homeward down the Chippewa River. |
| Date: | 06 12 1958 |
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| Description: | Antarctic explorers Dr. Edward Thiel (left) and John Behrendt (right) recently returned from a year long stay in Antarctica. Dr. Thiel was the co-leader of... |
| Date: | 06 11 1958 |
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| Description: | John and Margaret VanGemert with their family all ready to head out on a vacation at a Wisconsin resort. |
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