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| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Scrapbook page containing a cyanotype and albumen print of a picket fence and the caption: "First Attempt;" 1887, What's the Matter? "Light struck." |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Scrapbook page containing a cyanotype print and an albumen print looking toward Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The cover of a book entitled "Hero-Worship" written by John Bascom, with his autograph to Breese Stevens in the upper righthand corner. The autograph reads... |
| Date: | 08 18 1881 |
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| Description: | Sketchbook page with inscription across top in brown ink: "To Mr. Stager from his section in remembrance of the pleasant hours spent together. Aug. 18th 1... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Engraved letterhead of the firm of Smith, Mendel & Co., a wholesale grocery merchant. William E. Smith was a prominent Milwaukee businessman, partner in th... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the La Crosse Wallis Carriage Co., manufacturers of fine family carriages, showing a view of the factory with the Mississippi River in the ba... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Letterhead stationery of the Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Association, with an engraving of the building constructed for that event. |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Business stationery of George B. Peck, editor of Peck's Sun, a Milwaukee newspaper. Peck was well-known for his humorous column, "Peck's Bad Boy," a... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Letterhead stationery of the La Crosse National Bank, with an engraved image of the bank building at the top. |
| Date: | 07 17 1881 |
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| Description: | First page of a letter written by Walt Whitman regarding the publication of a book he was writing. |
| Date: | 07 17 1881 |
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| Description: | The second page of a letter written by Walt Whitman regarding publishing a book he was writing. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | This plat of Vanceburg Cemetery, Town of Sheridan, Dunn County, Wisconsin, likely dates from the 1880s and "is intended for the correction of names of peop... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Opening spread of Reuben Gold Thwaites' diary of his 1887 trip on the Fox River. |
| Date: | 03 10 1888 |
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| Description: | Inscription from Reuben Gold Thwaites to The State Historical Society of Wisconsin in a copy of his book, Historic Waterways. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | First page of the Reuben Gold Thwaites' handwritten draft manuscript for his book Historic Waterways. |
| Date: | 06 1884 |
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| Description: | Document recording the case and ruling in favor of Samuel Boynton in the case brought by Clarissa Wood regarding the sale of the Eagle diamond. |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Pages 54 and 55 of the diary kept by John H. Goddard on a timber cruising trip. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Professor William F. Allen seated and writing at a desk in the study of his home at 228 Langdon St. His son Will is seated in a chair and reading. A large ... |
| Date: | 08 1889 |
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| Description: | A key to the members of the 29th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, consisting of a piece of paper with numbered circles punched through it. When this key is p... |
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