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Certificate of American Citizenship

Date: 07 17 1860
Description: A certificate granting United States citizenship to Frederick Anneke.
Photograph

American Citizenship Course

Date: 03 29 1960
Description: Two students reviewing "Our Constitution and What It Means" for a citizenship course. They are Mrs. Gertrud Wood, Germany, and Mrs. Sucko Miller, Japan.
Photograph

Citizen Procedures for Foreign Doctors

Date: 05 26 1964
Description: New citizens Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Vognar of Ft. Atkinson, with their twin daughters, Daniella (left) and Stella, at the Naturalization ceremonies. They are...
Map or Atlas

Welsh Settlement in Southern Wisconsin

Date: 1998
Description: This map shows the number of Welsh-born heads of households around 1870. A small inset map in the lower left corner shows Welsh land ownership in the heart...
Photograph

Johan F. Glaaser Contributes to the United Givers Fair Share Club

Date: 09 17 1965
Description: Johan F. Glaaser, 4801 Rothman Place, is a contributor to the United Givers Fair Share Club program. Glaaser, originally from Amsterdam, Holland, works as ...
Photograph

Mrs. Mary Kundrat, Czechoslovakian Immigrant

Date: 11 06 1965
Description: Mrs. Mary Kundrat, age 85, moved to the United States from Czechoslovakia in 1907. She describes her life in places she has lived and the work she has done...
Map or Atlas

Where They Settled in Wisconsin

Date: 1982
Description: This map shows the location of major settlement regions for various ethnic groups. Includes a legend in lower left hand corner. Sparse settlement is repres...
Map or Atlas

The Rand-McNally New Commercial Atlas Map of Wisconsin

Date: 1913
Description: This map details automobile routes throughout the state and parts of Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, and Iowa. Cities, counties, Lake Michigan, Lake Superio...
Photograph

Lamont and His Wife

Date: 1849
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Lamont and his wife, Scottish immigrants. Waist-up portrait, seated facing forward. He is wearing a suit and tie, and she is w...
Photograph

MEChA de UW-Madison at the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: A large crowd of protesters standing on the street outside the Republican presidential debate. The group are mostly college age, although a young boy is st...
Photograph

Alien Head-Tax Receipt

Date: 05 03 1926
Description: Border crossing papers issues by the U.S. Department of Labor for Jovita Prado who was going from Mexico to Milwaukee.
Photograph

May Day Demonstration

Date: 05 01 2006
Description: Elevated view of a large group of people, largely from the Latino community, marching from Walker's Point, through the downtown, to the Lake Michigan lakef...
Poster

Remember! The Flag of Liberty, Support It!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of several people, presumably immigrants, standing in the foreground. Behind them is an American flag, and behind it is a ...
Postcard

American Club, Kohler, Wis.

Date: 
Description: Hand-colored postcard of the American Club during the time it was a dorm for immigrant workers.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

"Neue Rheinische Zeitung" Page One

Date: 05 19 1849
Description: Page one of the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung," a German newspaper published by Karl Marx in Cologne.
Photograph

Middleton Sportsmen's Junior Rifle Club

Date: 05 1955
Description: Jan Bruhn, 15, chatting with her grandfather, A.T. Bruhn, at the Club. He headed a Junior Rifle Club in Denmark in 1884-1886 at the age of 9.
Photograph

Ballet Classes in Lake Mills Garage

Date: 12 05 1958
Description: Tibor L. Zana, a 23 year old Hungarian dance instructor and student at Carroll College, teaches ballet to about 60 residents of Lake Mills in a room over a...
Photograph

Ballet Classes in Lake Mills Garage

Date: 12 05 1958
Description: Tibor L. Zana, a 23 year old Hungarian dance instructor and student at Carroll College, teaches ballet to about 60 residents of Lake Mills in a room over a...
Photograph

Ballet Classes in Lake Mills Garage

Date: 12 05 1958
Description: Tibor L. Zana, a 23 year old Hungarian dance instructor and student at Carroll College, teaches ballet to about 60 residents of Lake Mills in a room over a...
Photograph

UW Graduate Teaching Assistant Gets Post at Lycoming College

Date: 05 15 1959
Description: Sigmund Birkenmayer, a graduate teaching assistant in Slavic languages at the University of Wisconsin, has been appointed an assistant professor in Russian...

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