Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Quarter-plate ambrotype. Three-quarter length portrait of John H. Fonda, settler in the Prairie Du Chien area. He is sitting facing front, with one hand in... |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, the first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, E... |
Date: | |
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Description: | A collection of pioneer household articles arranged in a living room. |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of George H. Walker, who was born in Lynchburgh, Campbell County, Virginia, October 5th, 1812. He emigrated to Wisconsin in Oc... |
Date: | 04 16 1958 |
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Description: | Boy Scouts lash together lengths of wood as they put up an exhibit about pioneering for Scout-O-Rama. |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Ebenezer Brigham, founder of the first major community in the Blue Mounds of Wisconsin, which included a mine, frontier inn... |
Date: | 02 04 1945 |
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Description: | Colonial period travel by stagecoach which is halted at an inn and the horses are being changed, some of the passengers are getting off, one of four murals... |
Date: | 10 03 1934 |
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Description: | The mural depicts colonial period travel by stagecoach, which is halted at an inn while the horses are being changed. Some of the passengers are getting of... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Abraham Schmocker, a "hermit" who lived in "Stumptown" near Alma, seated on a bench outside his log cabin, holding a kitty. |
Date: | 1868 |
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Description: | Studio portrait of the Kravig/Kravik sons, one seated and one standing. |
Date: | 1868 |
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Description: | Studio portrait of the Kravig/Kravik daughters, one seated and one standing. |
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Description: | Dutch family posing outside their log home with two horses. |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Major John H. Rountree. He was born in March of 1805 in Kentucky, near the Mammoth Cave, and came to Wisconsin on May 27, 1... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Augustus A. Bird. He was born in Reading, Windsor County, Vermont and emigrated to Wisconsin in 1836. He and his family w... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of James Rogan. He was born in County Down, Ireland on August 12th, 1801, and came to America in April of 1823. In 1836, Rogan... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Edward Pier. He was born in New Haven, Vermont on March 31, 1807, and came to Wisconsin in September of 1834. Pier was one... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Stephen D. Butts. He was born in Pennsylvania on August 14, 1815. Butts came to Wisconsin on July 8, 1836, and was one of... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Samuel Brown. He was born in Massachusetts on January 8, 1804, and came to Wisconsin in November of 1834. In late 1835, B... |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Ebenezer Brigham, founder of the first major community in the Blue Mounds of Wisconsin, which included a mine, frontier inn... |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | A man kneels next to a monument dedicated to the pioneers. |
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