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John Muir's Home

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Description: Illustration of John Muir's first Wisconsin home at Fountain Lake.
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Pioneer Home of Nels Wickstrom

Date: 1891
Description: This is a family photograph of Nels Wickstrom with his wife Anna (born Anna Stoel) and their children in front of their log home. The oldest child, wearing...
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Ojibwa Lodge

Date: 1906
Description: Ojibwa chief's lodge from Lac Courte Orielles Reservation set up at the 1906 Wisconsin State Fair. Note both reed and bark coverings on the lodge. A number...
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Native Americans near Keshena

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Description: Native Americans on the Menominee Reservation near Keshena, Wisconsin. A white man in the foreground appears to be drawing something out of camera range. T...
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Native Americans and Whites

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Description: An unexplained group consisting of two white men, two white children, and two Native American women standing in front of a tent. The original caption stat...
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Creek Man

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Description: A Creek man of the house relaxes outside.
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Men on Bear Island

Date: 10 10 1898
Description: W.A. Jones and an unidentified man, probably on Bear Island, the location of the Ojibwa-Pillager Battle.
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Group on Bear Island

Date: 10 10 1898
Description: W.A. Jones and an unidentified group, probably on Bear Island, the location of the Ojibwa-Pillager Battle.
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John Lloyd Jones

Date: 1900
Description: John Lloyd Jones standing between his house and the post office shed.
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Mifflin Street Block Party

Date: 05 1975
Description: Crowd at the Mifflin Street block party.
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Camp of the 7th Wisconsin

Date: 06 1862
Description: The 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment camp outside of Fredericksburg on the east side of the Rappahannock. Fredericksburg and a pontoon bridge lea...
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Union Soldiers at Camp Douglas

Date: 1862
Description: Large group of Union soldiers in formation by a barracks at Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois.
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Apiary of Sophia Leonard

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Description: Sophia Leonard's 185 colony apiary.
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Cyanotype of Chippewa Indians

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Description: Cyanotype print of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians near Bradley Junction, near Minocqua. A man wearing a suit and hat is standing in the background.
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Two Men and Woman in Buggy

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Description: Tintype (ferrotype) of two men and a woman in a buggy.
Postcard

Cutler House

Date: 1890
Description: Souvenir postcard showing a view of the Cutler house and Morris D. Cutler. Caption reads: "Souvenir postcard of centennial celebration of the founding of W...
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Flour and Feed Store

Date: 1899
Description: The Smith M. Jacobs Flour and Feed Store (left) and residence (right), 301 and 303 Monroe Street. The address renumbered within the next five years to 1701...
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Petherick Sharp House

Date: 1910
Description: Petherick Sharp house, between Token Creek and Sun Prairie. Occupied by the Thompson family in the 1930s. William J. Petherick is standing in front of th...
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Alabama Black Community

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Description: Stilted houses on a block of an African American community in Alabama.
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Highlander Neighbors

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Description: A man and two boys standing near a shack with large cauldron in front, looking in different directions. They are neighbors of Highlander Folk School.

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