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Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Deer hunters' camp in Northern Wisconsin. Image includes six hunters and their dogs posed in front of their cabin with hanging deer carcasses. |
Date: | 1967 |
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Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison students clash with riot police during campus demonstration to protest Dow Chemical involvement in the Vietnam conflict. He... |
Date: | 1864 |
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Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Civil War soldier Nils (Niels) J. Gilbert, Company A, of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry, believed to have been taken in October... |
Date: | 05 18 1933 |
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Description: | The Battle of Durham Hill during the milk strike, showing sheriff's deputies and National Guardsmen (sworn in as special deputies) charging farmers with ba... |
Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | Lt. Frank A. Haskell, adjutant of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry. In 1862 Haskell became aide-de-camp to General John Gibbon who commanded the Iron Brigade. Wh... |
Date: | 1850 |
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Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype studio portrait of Augustin Grignon. He is seated, holding a tomahawk. The tomahawk, which could also be used as a pipe, was made... |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the Winnebago attack on the Gagnier homestead in 1827 and the killing of Registre Gagnier. The homestead w... |
Date: | 1845 |
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Description: | Engraving depicting the defeat of Black Hawk by General Henry Atkinson at the Battle of Bad Axe on August 2, 1832. The engraving depicts Federal Regulars a... |
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Description: | The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi... |
Date: | 1857 |
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Description: | An actor dressed as an army officer, holding a saber, for the performance of "Black Hawk, or Lily of the Prairie," a drama written by Mary Elizabeth Mears ... |
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Description: | Looking into Boat Cave. Three men dressed as "Indians," one standing on shore holding a spear, two seated in a canoe. |
Date: | 02 27 1984 |
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Description: | A sixth grade class dresses up as cave people to experience the likeness of living in pre-historic times. |
Date: | 02 12 1963 |
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Description: | Six members of the same family form the complete cast of a library playhouse production that was to be televised. |
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Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man, Hoonch-Schad-E-Gab (Big Bear), aiming a bow and arrow and wearing a fur hat with feathers... |
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Description: | Two men dressed as "Indians" are sitting in a canoe at the edge of the beach. One is posing holding a bow and arrow, the other is holding a paddle. |
Date: | 1894 |
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Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring an illustration of a soldier on a horse in a field under the title "Peace and... |
Date: | 1954 |
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Description: | A Wisconsin Air National Guard F-89 Scorpion at Truax Field. Armaments for this fighter included two air-to-air rockets capable of being armed with nuclear... |
Date: | 1990 |
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Description: | A woman holds the monster knife and its sheath. Giant knife presented to John Fox Potter by Missouri Republicans after Potter's threatened duel with a Virg... |
Date: | 09 07 1944 |
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Description: | H.S. Manchester's, Inc., window display promoting saving paper. Shows fake bomb falling on various ammunition with slogans that read: "Get in the Scrap," "... |
Date: | 08 25 1941 |
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Description: | Stan Cutler's Bar X Tavern interior, 123 East Main Street, the bar and booths have a Western theme. |
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