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| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Printed petition addressed to Governor Leonard J. Farwell concerning the lack of qualifications of the present state Emigrant Agent and their desire for th... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Immigrant map. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A group of immigrants, both children and adults, who have just arrived at Ellis Island. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Blue cover design of an official report entitled "Wisconsin. What It Offers to the Immigrant". |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | World War I poster urging newly arrived immigrants to conserve food to aid the allied cause. People in ethnic costume being ushered into the United States ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored map of Wisconsin showing distribution ethnic groups based on the 1885 state census. The various nationalities are color-coded and include: I... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A map of showing the population density of foreign-born Scandinavians in Wisconsin based information from the 1905 census. The map also shows the county bo... |
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| Description: | A map indicating the population density of German-born people in Wisconsin based on the 1905 census. The map shows the county boundaries throughout the sta... |
| Date: | 1998 |
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| Description: | This map shows the number of Welsh-born heads of households around 1870. A small inset map in the lower left corner shows Welsh land ownership in the heart... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of several people, presumably immigrants, standing in the foreground. Behind them is an American flag, and behind it is a ... |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard of the American Club during the time it was a dorm for immigrant workers. |
| Date: | 05 19 1849 |
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| Description: | Page one of the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung," a German newspaper published by Karl Marx in Cologne. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Oval-framed quarter-length portrait of Reverend Monseigneur Peter Matthias Abbelen, who was vicar general of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and later spirit... |
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| Description: | Lithographic caricature of a man holding two vehicles, and surrounded by other vehicles and a factory. He is identified as Charles Abresch, a German immigr... |
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| Description: | Lithographic portrait of David Adler, a retail clothier, one of the organizers of the Wisconsin National Bank, one of the founders and a vice-president of ... |
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| Description: | Engraved lithographic portrait of Robert Aitken, a printer and the first to publish an English-language Bible in the United States, in 1782. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Engraved lithographic quarter-length portrait of John Peter Altgeld, a Union veteran of the Civil War, judge, lawyer, and politician. Altgeld was a Progres... |
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