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| Date: | 05 30 1861 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of two hands clasping in front of the American Constitution. The American flag, stars and a fasces are behind the constitution with bunting belo... |
| Date: | 05 18 1863 |
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| Description: | Letterhead with a wreath around the American shield. The text behind the shield, partially obscured, reads: "E Pluribus Unum." A banner hanging on the shie... |
| Date: | 11 13 1860 |
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| Description: | Letterhead with a head and shoulders portrait of Abraham Lincoln (left) and Hannibal Hamlin (right), inside a shield and olive branches. 4 page, folded, th... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Engraved lithographic quarter-length portrait of John Peter Altgeld, a Union veteran of the Civil War, judge, lawyer, and politician. Altgeld was a Progres... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of three U.S. Army soldiers in front of tents in camp under a framework of branches. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Petition to President Abraham Lincoln for the establishment of soldiers homes and hospitals in Wisconsin. The petition is signed by 18 women. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Governor and Civil War General Lucius Fairchild (1831-1896) by John Singer Sargent. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Thomas Bigford (in cap, on left) and another official swearing-in two Native American Civil War recruits. Thomas Bigford (1815-1890) of Taycheedah, Wiscons... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising poster for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing the Civil War battle of Mission Ridge. Features an inset with a small ... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers: Scenes from life as a prisoner of war, with explanations--sketched by Lieut. & Top Eng'r O.R. Dahl, 15th Wisconsin ... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn poster by S.W. Martin of the Civil War officers and men of the Kickapoo Rangers of the 12th Regiment, Company K. Above and to the left of the li... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A smiling devil with wings is holding a large jar of C.S.A. Whiskey marked with a poison symbol, and a Confederate flag sticking out of it. Blue and red in... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A pig with a small saddle on his back. A Union flag is set in the middle of the saddle. On the side of the pig is the text: "WHOLE OR NONE." Blue and red i... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A snake, a skull and an ostrich feather in a pile on the ground. The text above reads: "Vanity, Treachery & Death." Caption below reads: "SECESSION EMBLEMS... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia holding a Union flag with her right hand and pointing with her left. Caption below reads: "I am for Union TO A MAN!" Red and blue ink on beig... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A man, probably Jefferson Davis, riding a pig carrying a sign that reads: "2d EDITION!!! 40,000 Killed, Wounded, THIS ONE MISSING! VIA CINCINNATI!" Blue in... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | The devil holds the Texas state seal and a Confederate flag. "THE REBEL STATES" and "TEXAS" appear within the illustration. Blue ink on beige envelope, ima... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Cotton plant within a decorative frame. The caption below reads "The Cotton Plant — King of the South." Black ink on beige envelope, image appears on the l... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A soldier rides a horse with a military camp in the background. Caption below reads, "CAMP WASHBURN, MILWAUKEE - - WIS." Blue ink on beige envelope, image ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A hot air balloon labeled "SECESSION" bursts and drops men and soldiers out of the gondola towards the ground below. The gondola has crossbones on it and t... |
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