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| Wisconsin History Maker Award |
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| Learn more about this Kenosha, Wisconsin, couple who won national and international acclaim in the arts. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length formal oval painting of Samuel Marshall, (1820-1907), banker, co-founder and President of the Marshall & Ilsley Bank. |
| Date: | 1829 |
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| Description: | Watercolor miniature of Isaac Winnesheek, Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Chief. |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Waa-Na-'Taa or The Foremost in Battle, Chief of the Sioux Tribe. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Prairie du... |
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| Description: | Painted portrait of Souligny, a chief of the Menominees. He is depicted wearing a James Madison Peace Medal. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Governor and Civil War General Lucius Fairchild (1831-1896) by John Singer Sargent. |
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| Description: | Chief Oshkosh, (1795-) August 29, 1858, Menomonee Indian chief. |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Austin E. Quinney with a dog. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | An oval-framed, seated studio portrait of Anderson Herman, a private in Company I, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform, holding a musket across his chest. T... |
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| Description: | William H. Brisbane, Chaplain of the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry. Inset photograph taken from a large Civil War commemorative roster. |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Naw-Kaw or Wood. Hand-colored lithograph from History of the Indian Tribes of North America. |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mrs. John Kinzie, born Juliette Augusta Magill (1808-1870), author of "Wau-Bun", from an oil painting made in 1855 by G.P.A. Healey. |
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| Description: | Inset of head and shoulders portrait of "Queen Marinette" along with a depiction of her home, which was one of the earliest houses in Marinette. She was th... |
| Date: | 1833 |
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| Description: | Mac-Cut-I-Mish-E-Ca-Cu-Cac or Black Hawk, a celebrated Sac (Sauk) Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, drawn at Detroit (1833). |
| Date: | 09 06 1882 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Dr. Laura Ross Wolcott, the first president of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Oil portrait of Nathaniel Ames, a former Revolutionary War soldier. |
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