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Peshtigo Fire

Date: 11 25 1871
Description: Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak...
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Milwaukee Light Guard

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Description: Illustration of the Milwaukee Light Guard depicting four men, including captain J.C. Starkweather. This is a cover from sheet music "Milwaukee Light Guard ...
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Village of Folle-Avoines

Date: 1842
Description: A Menominee village as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited the Green Bay area about 1838. The detailed, ...
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Jane Addams of Hull House

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Description: Jane Addams holding an open book, surrounded by immigrant children.
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Union Generals of the Civil War

Date: 1867
Description: Engraving of portraits of Generals in the Union Army during the Civil War. U.S. Grant is in the center, with H.W. Halleck on his left, and clockwise from t...
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Iceboating at Madison, Wisconsin

Date: 03 09 1878
Description: Illustration by N.A. Greenback of ice-skaters and iceboats featuring the new Poughkeepsie design of pivoting runners. A key at the bottom of the image iden...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Supreme Court

Date: 1903
Description: Group portrait of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1903, the year in which a constitutional amendment approved expansion of the court from five to seven judg...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Supreme Court Detail

Date: 1903
Description: Detail of the 1903 group portrait of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, showing Justice Robert G. Siebecker, then the least senior member of the court. Siebecker...
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Woman Suffrage

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Description: Poster for women's suffrage, title on sides reads: "Woman Suffrage." Text below reads: "Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise he...
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Robert M. La Follette Political Cartoon

Date: 1908
Description: La Follette political cartoon. La Follette and presidential candidates Root, Shaw, Taft, and Fairbanks at a fish pond.
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"Custer's Death" Poster

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Description: Poster of a performance by Arthur Camp, who was kidnapped by the Menominees from the banks of the Wolf River, in Wisconsin, at the age of 4. He was present...
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Cover of Piano Music "The Midnight Flyer"

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Description: Cover of piano music, showing a train at night with headlight on, titled "The Midnight Flyer," March Two-Step. Arranged by E.T. Paull.
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No Place Like Home

Date: 03 20 1946
Description: Original, inscribed political cartoon by Clifford K. Berryman, showing Robert M. La Follette, Jr., carrying the Wisconsin Progressive Party back to the Rep...
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Fourth of July Industrial Parade

Date: 07 1886
Description: Intersection of 4th and Steele Streets facing east. The building in the lower right is the Knipfer building, now Algoma Mercantile. Bunting adorns the Boed...
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Frederick Jackson Turner Drawing

Date: 1924
Description: A hand-drawn cartoon in crayon entitled "Westward The Course Of Empire". It features Frederick Jackson Turner on a rocking horse with a sunset in the backg...
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Camp Randall Plans

Date: 1865
Description: Drawing of the planned layout for the military training facility at Camp Randall.
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Paul Bunyan Skidding Ahead of the Saws

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Description: Drawing of Paul Bunyan running with two oxen pulling a log that is being sawed by two other lumberjacks.
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Paul Bunyan

Date: 1916
Description: Drawing of a wild-looking Paul Bunyan.
Poster

Madison Metropolitan War Chest Poster

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Description: Poster soliciting funds for Metropolitan Madison War Chest. Featured are caricatures of Hitler and Goering.
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Circus Parade Poster

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Description: Colorful poster depicting parade with circus wagons in foreground, and circus tents in the background. "Seal Brothers gorgeous gift to all-at noon a Mammot...

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