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Museum Collections Online
Nearly 4,000 artifacts from the Wisconsin Historical Museum have now been pictured and described on our Web site. Check out paintings, dolls, quilts, moccasins, samplers, and children's clothing through the link above. And don't forget the Wis. Decorative Arts Database, showing 200 objects of all sorts from local historical societies around the state,
New Pictures Online
Every day we add more historical images to our online collection, Wisconsin Historical Images. Not just Wisconsin, but the whole country. Not only candid snapshots, but work by major photographers. And not only photographs, but also posters, engravings, lithographs, maps and more. See the last 30 days' worth of additions by clicking above.
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An American Indian View of July 4thIn July 1854, John W. Quinney (1797-1855) returned home from Wisconsin. A leader of the Stockbridge (Mohican) Indians who helped organize the tribe's emigration to Wisconsin in the 1820s, Quinney had been invited to speak at July 4th celebrations in Reidsville, N.Y. In his speech there to 2,000 listeners, he described how to him the festivities marked "the triumphal days...
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Wisconsin Magazine of History
The Summer 2008 issue features articles on the history of the original Paul Bunyan tales, the photography of Dr. Edward A. Bass, and observations on the illustrated log book from 1903 that documents the canoeing adventure of four young friends on the Wisconsin, Mississippi, Rock, and Yahara Rivers. |
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Old World Wisconsin Recalls World War I
