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| Date: | 06 28 1863 |
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| Description: | A letter written by W.D. Bartlett to his cousin describing life as a Civil War soldier. |
| Date: | 07 03 1821 |
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| Description: | Two pages of a letter written by Thomas Forsyth. |
| Date: | 05 24 1820 |
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| Description: | A page, headed with "Journal No. 1," of James Doty's journal of a trip with Cass, Schoolcraft, etc. to the sources of the Mississippi River. |
| Date: | 09 23 1890 |
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| Description: | First page of a letter from Governor William Dempster Hoard to Henry C. Payne rejecting a $1000 donation Payne sent from Philip Armour. |
| Date: | 02 1930 |
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| Description: | An article titled "Institute for Research in Land Economics and Public Utilities to Establish Outpost in China" features Professor Richard Ely. |
| Date: | 12 1900 |
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| Description: | A composite of photographs of "writers on social questions". Pictured are 1. Henry D. Lloyd 2. Richard T. Ely 3. Benjamin Kidd 4. Rev. George D. Herron 5. ... |
| Date: | 07 29 1812 |
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| Description: | A handwritten order to evacuate Ft. Dearborn. |
| Date: | 10 19 1836 |
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| Description: | This 1836 manuscript map shows the sections, windfalls, marshes, streams, prairies, acreages, and former mouth of the Pike River in what is now the eastern... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "Otis Skinner and Miss Cornelia Otis Skinner arriving home after a vacation in Spain." |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | This plat of Vanceburg Cemetery, Town of Sheridan, Dunn County, Wisconsin, likely dates from the 1880s and "is intended for the correction of names of peop... |
| Date: | 08 17 1874 |
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| Description: | This manuscript drawing provides a side elevation, plan, and perspective view for a proposed lock on the Fox River. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | This pictorial representation of part of Lake Winnebago and the Fox River in 1703, showing interactions between white beaver hunters and the Iroquois is ta... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A man is seated at a desk, writing and smoking a cigarette. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman in the foreground writes on a pad while a young woman looks on from a doorway. |
| Date: | 10 19 1816 |
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| Description: | The front page of a letter with the greeting "Dear Sister" written by Daniel Boone. |
| Date: | 07 13 1778 |
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| Description: | A brief letter written by Daniel Boone to "Dear Col." |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | Two boys in an image taken by a civil rights volunteer. The boy on the right, identified as Charles, is writing while the boy on the left, James, looks on... |
| Date: | 06 1837 |
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| Description: | Pen-and-ink on paper. Shows riverside property west of the Milwaukee River. Inscribed by several early Milwaukee settlers, including Henry W. Cleveland, Cy... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Pen-and-ink on paper. Includes certifications signed by surveyor and by "John T. Perkins, by his attorney I.A. Lapham." Inscribed and signed certification ... |
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