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| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry officers' mess. Pictured are: Surgeon A.J. Ward, Major Thomas S. Allen, Lt. Colonel Lucius Fairchild, and Colonel Edgar... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Thomas Bigford (in cap, on left) and another official swearing-in two Native American Civil War recruits. Thomas Bigford (1815-1890) of Taycheedah, Wiscons... |
| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw. |
| Date: | 08 24 1968 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kress, dressed in lederhosen, enjoy beer and sweet corn at the Mid-summer Festival. |
| Date: | 11 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Uptown Post #400 Drill Team in formation firing a salute on Armistice Day while passers-by pause to pay their respects. |
| Date: | 04 1893 |
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| Description: | Launching Captain Abe McDougall's whaleback boat, "Christopher Columbus", from the American Steel Barge Company dock. |
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| Description: | Survivors of the Titanic sinking with Congressman William J. Cary and his Secretary, Richard P. Momsen, in front of the United States Capitol. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Belle Case La Follette, wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing a group of farmers during a tour on the Chautauqua circuit during which she frequent... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Maypole dancers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Bascom Hill (Main Hill). In the foreground is the Lincoln Monument. In the distance is the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | From left to right Ida Fisk, Dorothy Purchas (b. 1891), Emma (Thorsen) Purchas (1862-1944), and Ethelinda (Thorsen) Johnston (1856-1947) of Milwaukee, Wisc... |
| Date: | 06 01 1933 |
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| Description: | A close-up of the Langlade County Historical Society seal. It was designed by noted sculptor Sidney Bedore and bore an idealized likeness of his ancestor C... |
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| Description: | Medallion presented to Vinnie Ream Hoxie by Cardinal Antonelli. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Francis Jefferson Coates of the 7th Wisconsin who earned the Medal of Honor for bravery at the Battle of Gettysburg. Sergeant Coates was so severely wounde... |
| Date: | 05 1912 |
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| Description: | Interior of H.H. Bennett's studio gift shop with Indian souvenirs. |
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| Description: | Secretary of State Fred R. Zimmerman's Christmas card. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | The west wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol on Decoration Day. The steep slope of the western side of the park delayed the construction of the east ... |
| Date: | 10 26 1945 |
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| Description: | The silver service, which was a gift of the State to the USS "Wisconsin," on display during the presentation ceremony. |
| Date: | 10 26 1945 |
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| Description: | The official delegation party with their wives at the ceremony of silver service presentation aboard the USS "Wisconsin". Seated left to right are Judge Ro... |
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