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| Follow links to documents by missionaries, traders, Indian agents, linguists and anthropologists which help preserve more than 20 endangered languages. |
| Follow online links to rare American Indian language primary documents, including early dictionaries, textbooks, spelling books and firsthand accounts. |
| A Traveling Display |
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| Meet some of our LGBTQ+ visionaries, changemakers, and storytellers, get inspired, and share your story. |
| Information on over 7,000 photographers who were active in Wisconsin from about 1840 to 1976. |
| Introduction to the Citizen Petition collection |
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| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Mathilde Anneke; Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Lavinia Goodell, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Benjamin Butts, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers and Storytellers |
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| Lou Ringling | Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers and Storytellers |
| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Billy Schultz, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
| Merrill City Hall, Merrill, Wisconsin |
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| 1889 Queen Anne style city hall building is saved and rehabilitated to apartments in Merrill. |
| Imig Block, Sheboygan, Wisconsin |
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| Three owners participate in complex project to rehabilitate an 1882 elaborate Victorian Italianate style building. |
| Christina Kuhl Block, Stevens Point, Wisconsin |
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| Before restoration, gray paint and blocked-in windows disguised half of the 1885 building's High Victorian design. |
| Paul Jules Saloon Building, Green Bay, Wisconsin |
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| A boarded-over 1883 Italiante building is revived; attracting new businesses and positive changes to the Broadway-Walnut Historic District. |
| Interactive Resource, Historical Essay, Slide Show |
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| Learn about how the Lucerne sank in the Chequamegon Bay in 1886 |
| Packing a traveler's trunk offers students the opportunity to take a closer look at the immigrant experience in this lesson |
| Learn more about life in a lumber camp by using primary sources |
| 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' |
| Teaching Materials |
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| Teaching materials for use with the 2nd Edition of Patty Lowe's "Indian Nations of Wisconsin." |
| Supplemental teaching materials for 'Native People of Wisconsin' |
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| Interactive whiteboard resources designed for use with Patty Loew's "Native People of Wisconsin" for the 4th grade classroom. |
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