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| Assimilation |
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| Discover how the government tried to assimilate Germans and Indians into their culture. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the American Bee Journal from Chicago, Illinois found in Agricultural Advertising. There is a lined border around the text ... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A boy and a man are holding up small white pine trees, while workers are planting them at Alexander Lake's nursery. In the background are horses and wagons... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man stands with fifty beehives on the farm of Bernhard Volkering in East Farmington. Trees and farm buildings surround the hives. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Cover of the Planet Jr. catalog. Features an illustration of a man and young girl (about 5 or 6 years old) in a garden pushing a Planet Jr. Garden Drill to... |
| Interpreter |
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| Biography of interpreter Benjamin Green Armstrong who helped reverse the Indian removal order of 1849. |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | German-English Academy (Milw. Univ. School) |
| Reference Number: | 16286 |
| Community: | Madison |
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| County: | Dane |
| Historic Name: | Dr. Joseph Jastrow House |
| Reference Number: | 81008 |
| Wisconsin and the Invention of the Car |
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| Discover how Wisconsin's influence on the automobile and tourist culture. |
| Automobiles in Wisconsin History |
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| Read about the evolution of the automotive industry and the drastic changes in manufacturing work, road infrastructure, the economy and American culture. |
| Community: | Eau Claire |
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| County: | Eau Claire |
| Historic Name: | Brady Anderson and Waldemar Ager House |
| Reference Number: | 28920 |
| Community: | Watertown |
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| County: | Jefferson |
| Historic Name: | St. Bernard's School |
| Reference Number: | 77138 |
| Mississippi River Town |
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| View 19th century photographs of life on the Mississippi River logging town of Alma, Wisconsin. |
| During the Progressive Era, this Milwaukeean helped Jewish immigrants assimilate into American society while maintaining their ethnic heritage. |
| Packing a traveler's trunk offers students the opportunity to take a closer look at the immigrant experience in this lesson |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | St. Joseph's Convent / Sisters of St. Francis |
| Reference Number: | 65876 |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Lake Park |
| Reference Number: | 27222 |
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