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| Date: | 1837 |
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| Description: | Photographic print of an amateur painting, probably representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The Peck Cabin, one of the many free variations o... |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Wau-Baun-See, a hand-colored lithographic portrait of a Potawatamie Indian. This image from McKenney & Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes," (1849-1850) ... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Kenisteno, and his Band of Trout Lake, Wisconsin. One row of birds, animals and fish pictographs. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Pictograph E., Plate 63, "Kaizheosh, and his Band from Lake Vieu Desert. Michigan and Wisconsin." A group of symbols including birds, animals, a fish and a... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Two pictographs: Pictograph C., Okundekund, and his Band of Ontonagon, Michigan, and Pictograph D., Kakake-Ogwunaosh, and his Band of the Head of the Wisc... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | This image was copied by artist Seth Eastman in 1849 and printed in Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's The History of the Indian Tribes of the United States, Hist... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | View of St. John's Catherdral with the original tower. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | The Tollef Olsen family posed around a table in the yard with the family dog. A framed print of a long-haired retriever is placed prominently on a chair to... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The Historical Society's early library and painting collections on display in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. This photograph was taken about 1880 befor... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Librarian Daniel S. Durrie seated in the two-story high gallery that the Historical Society occupied in the old South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol f... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of librarian Daniel S. Durrie seated in the two-story high gallery that the Historical Society occupied in the old South Wing of the Wisconsin ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Frances (Bull) Fairchild (1845-1924), wife of Wisconsin Governor Lucius Fairchild, wearing a court gown designed... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Studio wedding portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917) and Kunigunde (Dorn) Willms (1857-1941) in their wedding outfits. Ku... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The ornate interior of the Lucius Fairchild house at 302 South Wisconsin Avenue (renamed Monona Avenue in 1877). Built by Lucius' father Jairus Fairchild i... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of a young Ho-Chunk man, William Hindsley (Hensley) (CooNooChoNeeNikKah). He is holding a pipe tomahawk and is wearing bandolie... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Green Grass (HaWinChoKah), in period dress with the exception of his Ho-Chunk moccasins. He is holding a pistol, and his dog is lying next to his chair on ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Three unidentified men in a mix of contemporary and Ho-Chunk clothing. The man sitting on the right is wearing beads and a necklace made of large German si... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk woman posing standing on the left wearing rings and file bracelets, and wrapped in a plaid sha... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Charles J. Van Schaick sitting on a stone balustrade in front of a painted background, ca. 1882–1885. The photograph was probably taken by one of his assis... |
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