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August 21, 2008

 
Upcoming Events

Author Nancy C. Unger on Wisconsin Public Radio
Aug 21 :: Tune into 970 AM, WHA-Madison, for the Larry Meiller Show as Nancy C. Unger is interviewed by Jim Packard...

Model A Exposition at Circus World
Aug 23 :: See the incredible variety of Ford Model A automobiles built between 1927 and 1931, this exhibit includes...

2008 Capital Region Convention
Aug 23 :: You can view the agenda and print out a registration form for this convention at the Event Location URL...

Ongoing
Events
Chris Farley Remembered
That's the Ticket! A Parade of Presidential Elections
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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Tarzan of Rhinelander?
"...she had been carried off her feet by the strength of the young giant when his great arms were about her in the distant African forest, and again today, in the Wisconsin woods..." So wrote Edgar Rice Burroughs in one of the most famous pulp novels in American history, Tarzan of the Apes, first published in New York by A.C....

The latest issue of the Wisconsin Magazine of History. 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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