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| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Centennial Parade near the Wisconsin State Capitol. The Blue Mounds float depicting Dane County's first settler, Ebenezer Brigham, is coming down... |
| Date: | 06 2019 |
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| Description: | Plaque for Wisconsin Colonist Families, outdoors on a rock, 1935-1985. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Augustus A. Bird. He was born in Reading, Windsor County, Vermont and emigrated to Wisconsin in 1836. He and his family w... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Stephen D. Butts. He was born in Pennsylvania on August 14, 1815. Butts came to Wisconsin on July 8, 1836, and was one of... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Ebenezer Brigham, founder of the first major community in the Blue Mounds of Wisconsin, which included a mine, frontier inn... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Ebenezer Brigham, founder of the first major community in the Blue Mounds of Wisconsin, which included a mine, frontier inn... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Major John H. Rountree. He was born in March of 1805 in Kentucky, near the Mammoth Cave, and came to Wisconsin on May 27, 1... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Edward Pier. He was born in New Haven, Vermont on March 31, 1807, and came to Wisconsin in September of 1834. Pier was one... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Moses Hardwick, a farmer who was one of the first settlers in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 12 01 1944 |
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| Description: | Reenacting a pioneer Christmas custom of many foreign settlers in the early days of Wisconsin of singing carols around the family organ, are left to right:... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of George H. Walker, who was born in Lynchburgh, Campbell County, Virginia, October 5th, 1812. He emigrated to Wisconsin in Oc... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, Eben Peck. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Samuel Brown. He was born in Massachusetts on January 8, 1804, and came to Wisconsin in November of 1834. In late 1835, B... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Timothy Johnson, first white settler of Waukesha, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A promotional card displaying a group of thirteen people outside their new home in Northern Wisconsin. The caption bellow the photograph reads, "These pe... |
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| Description: | Dutch family posing outside their log home with two horses. |
| Date: | 09 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Talking to the ringmaster at a Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus show is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Economic... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, the first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, E... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of the Kravig/Kravik sons, one seated and one standing. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of the Kravig/Kravik daughters, one seated and one standing. |
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