Use a letter written home by a Norwegian immigrant to take a closer look at the immigrant experience in 1840s Wisconsin |
Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
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Chapter 8 supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
Use advertising posters to study technological change in American agriculture in the 19th century |
Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
Date: | 09 04 1895 |
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Description: | Julius Koehler family in their garden in front of their newly built frame home. The original Koehler farm was destroyed by forest fire in July of 1894, evi... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Michael Baltus family posing in front of their log cabin two miles east of Auburndale Station, Wood County, with a new frame house under construction nearb... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams. |
Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | Camp Randall looking southwest. In April 1861, Governor Alexander Randall asked that the State Agricultural Society fairgrounds be converted into a militar... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | McCormick Harvesting Machine Company annual catalog cover featuring an illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat. Below the text reads: "Harvesting... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Hop harvesters, mostly female, stand with hops, probably on the farm of Knudt Heimdal. Many of the harvesters have hop wreaths on their heads. Two men with... |
Date: | 09 05 1895 |
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Description: | Matthew H. Stephenson, his wife Julia Hebert Stephenson, and their son William Clinton pose with vegetables from the Menomonee River Boom Company garden ne... |
Date: | 09 28 1895 |
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Description: | Five-acre cabbage field of Martin Anderson near Grantsburg, with several frame houses in the background. Mr. Anderson is holding a prize-winning head of ca... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Group portrait of men gathered in a farmyard, posed behind two plows. The plow in front has Argyle, Wisc. from Michalson Implement Company inscribed on the... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression. |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | Halvor Nerison Hauge (1830-1906) had much to be proud of in 1874: an imposing brick house, modern harvesting equipment and a growing family. When Dahl publ... |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Stereograph. This view from East Washington Avenue shows photographer Andrew Dahl on his horse "Curnel" in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Dahl had j... |
Date: | 07 30 1895 |
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Description: | Men, waving their hats, standing in a field of shoulder-high oats on the farm of Edward Dascam, one and one-half miles northeast of Antigo, Langlade County... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Hop pickers posing by stands of harvested hops. |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Chromolithograph advertising poster for C.H. and L.J. McCormick, "Manufacturers of Harvesting Machinery" with central color illustration of a man operating... |
Date: | 1866 |
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Description: | Stereograph of woman, man and child outdoors on a farm with snow on the ground. The woman is wearing bloomers and is holding a bucket in the process of doi... |
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