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Indian Language Manuscripts Guide

Follow links to documents by missionaries, traders, Indian agents, linguists and anthropologists which help preserve more than 20 endangered languages.
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American Indian Language Materials

Follow online links to rare American Indian language primary documents, including early dictionaries, textbooks, spelling books and firsthand accounts.
General Information

We Will Always Be Here: Wisconsin's LGBTQ+ Historymakers

A Traveling Display
Meet some of our LGBTQ+ visionaries, changemakers, and storytellers, get inspired, and share your story.
General Information

Wisconsin Photographers Index 1840-1976

Information on over 7,000 photographers who were active in Wisconsin from about 1840 to 1976.
Feature Story

Thomas Blake

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Thomas Blake, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Feature Story

Mildred Fish-Harnack

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Mildred Fish-Harnack, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
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Lou Ringling

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers and Storytellers
Lou Ringling | Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers and Storytellers
Feature Story

Apartment Conversion of Historic School Maintains Charm

Mineral Point High School, Mineral Point, Wisconsin
A 1903 high School's special Richardsonian Romanesque historic details are maintained. Lockers were left in place in the original wide corridors and b
Classroom Material

Immigration: Packing a Traveler's Trunk

Packing a traveler's trunk offers students the opportunity to take a closer look at the immigrant experience in this lesson
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Speeches of Robert M. La Follette

La Follette and the Progressive Era
Get curriculum suggestions for teaching about Progressive Era reforms in Wisconsin
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Chapter 8: Lead, Soil, and Sawdust, 1820-1914

Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
Chapter 8 supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
Classroom Material

Indian Nations of Wisconsin, 2nd Edition

Teaching Materials
Teaching materials for use with the 2nd Edition of Patty Lowe's "Indian Nations of Wisconsin."
Classroom Material

Native People of Wisconsin Interactive Resource

Supplemental teaching materials for 'Native People of Wisconsin'
Interactive whiteboard resources designed for use with Patty Loew's "Native People of Wisconsin" for the 4th grade classroom.
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Progressive Era Political Cartoons

La Follette and the Progressive Era
Get curriculum suggestions for teaching about Progressive Era reforms in Wisconsin.
Photograph

Husking Corn

Date: 1903
Description: Elevated view of the Krueger family husking corn. From right to left are: Mary, Sarah, August, Florentina, and Jennie Krueger. A dog is lying on the ground...
Painting

Braddock's Defeat

Date: 1903
Description: An important event of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was commissioned in 1903 by Robert Laird McCormick, president of the State Historical Society o...
Photograph

Agnes Moorehead as a Child

Date: 1903
Description: Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age. She wears a white dress stands beside a flowering bush.
Photograph

Mother and Baby Playing

Date: 1903
Description: Beatrice C. Gesell and Gerhard Gesell, Jr. play out-of-doors. While mother watches the baby sits on a pillow playing with a volume titled "Educational Pro...
Photograph

Baby Changing Equipment Display

Date: 1903
Description: A display of items needed when changing a baby's diaper. The picture being taken in Ridgeway has not been confirmed.
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Baby Playing with His Feet

Date: 1903
Description: A baby lies on the dining table playing with his feet while his mother looks on.

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