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Old Abe and Historical Society Museum

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Description: The Civil War Room of the Historical Society Museum photographed sometime after 1900 when the society moved from third Wisconsin State Capitol to its new b...
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Grey Wolf

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Description: Portrait of Grey Wolf, brother of Little Priest, sitting and holding a rifle.
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Hunting Party

Date: 1920
Description: A group of men stand with rifles at the Echo Lake Hunting Club Camp. Gutted deer hang to cure outside the cabin.
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Dwight S. Allen

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Description: Full-length carte-de-visite studio portrait in front of a backdrop of Corporal Dwight S. Allen, Company C, 22nd Wisconsin Infantry, in uniform, leaning on ...
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Knut Larson Gjermo

Date: 1862
Description: Portrait of Knut Larson Gjermo, Company H, 15th Wisconsin Infantry, in his Civil War uniform. The following information is in the published Roster of Wisco...
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Police Firing on Crowd Near McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 05 03 1886
Description: Photograph of a painting depicting police in a horse-drawn wagon firing into a crowd of striking workers near the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company fact...
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Haymarket Square Riot

Date: 05 04 1886
Description: Photograph of a painting depicting a confrontation between police and protesters at the Haymarket in Chicago. Smoke from an explosion drifts in the backgro...
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Erik Larson

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Description: A seated, waist-up studio portrait of Erick Larson, a corporal in Company B, 15th Wisconsin Infantry, in uniform holding a musket across his chest. The fo...
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Brown Syverson

Date: 1861
Description: Waist-up portrait of Brown Siverson [as written on portrait; also written as Brown Syverson on Descriptive Rolls, Volume 20 and publish roster: Wisconsin V...
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Syver (Sivert) Larson

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Description: Studio portrait of Civil War soldier Syver (Sivert) Larson holding a rifle. He served as a Private in Company K of the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. H...
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Deer Hunters' Camp

Date: 1904
Description: Five deer hunters posing at a camp next to deer carcasses hanging up on a log pole.
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One Car, Two Men, Three Deer

Date: 1931
Description: Two hunters with rifles pose in the snow by a car with three deer carcasses.
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Ada Lois James with Rifle

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Description: Ada [& friend] Charlie. Ada is pretending to shoot an apple from the head of her friend Charlie, who is posing kneeling with his arms folded. There is a pa...
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Mescalero Agency Landform

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Description: Elevated view from hill of the road between the railroad and the Mescalero Agency, which is surrounded by a sixty by twenty mile section of white sands, co...
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Eleazer William's ("Lost Dauphin") Cabin

Date: 1915
Description: A group of people, men and women, standing outside in the yard in front of Eleazer William's log cabin, five miles south of De Pere. The women in the cente...
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Amund Pederson

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Description: A waist-up studio portrait of Amund Pederson, a private in Company G, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform holding a musket across his chest. The following ...
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Halvor A. Lee

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Description: Portrait of Halvor A. Lee of the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company D, holding a gun.
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Death of Colonel Ellsworth

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Description: An artist's representation of the death of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth at the Marshall House, the first casualty of the Civil War. Lieutenant Francis Brownell ...
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Richard Crowe

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Description: Richard Crowe of Company F, thirty-second Wisconsin Volunteers.
Painting

Frederick Mero

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Description: Illustration of Frederick Mero of Company E, 25th Wisconsin Infantry.

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