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| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | An important event of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was commissioned in 1903 by Robert Laird McCormick, president of the State Historical Society o... |
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| Description: | A two-man team of sawers work on a massive tree with a crosscut saw (right) while a man with an an axe waits to trim branches. The trunks are then cut down... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | This house was located among the Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians. Here Hölzlhuber and his companions took shelter in an uncomfortable stable one night, after an ... |
| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | A painting of an archaic Indian mining for copper. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Center panel of the completed mural at the Wisconsin Historical Society. The image depicts wheat farming, one of the state's earliest and largest industrie... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | ". . . The upper Grand Chute was the last of the 'improvements' paintings signed by Brookes and Stevenson. Yet there were two more vital links in the Fox R... |
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| Description: | Rendering of a man using handmade lathe. The lathe consists of a tree branch tied with a rope attached to a log suspended between two tree trunks, and a lo... |
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