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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Engraved letterhead of the firm of Smith, Mendel & Co., a wholesale grocery merchant. William E. Smith was a prominent Milwaukee businessman, partner in th... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the La Crosse Wallis Carriage Co., manufacturers of fine family carriages, showing a view of the factory with the Mississippi River in the ba... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Letterhead stationery of the Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Association, with an engraving of the building constructed for that event. |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Business stationery of George B. Peck, editor of Peck's Sun, a Milwaukee newspaper. Peck was well-known for his humorous column, "Peck's Bad Boy," a... |
| Date: | 10 31 1858 |
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| Description: | Letter written both horizontally and vertically, from Catherine Steel of Genesee, Wisconsin to her sister-in-law Lilias. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Berlin Woolen Mills bearing an engraving of the factory, which is unusual because of its French Mansard roof. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Letterhead stationery of the La Crosse National Bank, with an engraved image of the bank building at the top. |
| Date: | 04 1862 |
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| Description: | Hand-tinted stationery showing the Capitol in Washington, D.C. in 1862. The blue tint on the dome may have been intended to represent the unfinished natur... |
| Date: | 07 17 1881 |
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| Description: | First page of a letter written by Walt Whitman regarding the publication of a book he was writing. |
| Date: | 07 17 1881 |
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| Description: | The second page of a letter written by Walt Whitman regarding publishing a book he was writing. |
| Date: | 09 28 1842 |
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| Description: | A page in Samuel Marshall's diary, dated September 28, 1842, with several short entries. |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | Two pages of Samuel Marshall's 1846 diary, filled with daily entries. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Mr. Edward Schildhauer sitting at a desk and writing in a book. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Illustration to the story The Yellow Wallpaper, depicting a woman seated in a rocking chair next to a window writing. The caption reads, "I am sitti... |
| Date: | 05 1863 |
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| Description: | Two pages, dated May 23-24, 1863, of a diary kept by H.H. (Henry Hamilton) Bennett during the Civil War. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Poster with decorative border and text of the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln. |
| Date: | 10 08 1862 |
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| Description: | An introduction to the Kentucky Papers, written by Spencer Records, which begins, "I have written the following narrative partly for my own satisfaction an... |
| Date: | 07 08 1863 |
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| Description: | Diary entries for July 7 and 8, 1863 written by Emilie Quiner while caring for Union soldiers in Memphis, Tennessee. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio photograph of Louis Brosemer wearing a suit and hat. He is standing before a United States flag holding an oversized pen as though it wa... |
| Date: | 03 14 1812 |
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| Description: | A fur trade engagement for Charles St. Antoine dit Vacher, written in French. |
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