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| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Membership certificate of the Athenaen Society of the University of Wisconsin presented to Charles Fairchild in 1857. The society was a student literary an... |
| Date: | 04 01 1851 |
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| Description: | Cover of Freemasons' Monthly Magazine, Vol. X, No. VI. Highly decorated with scrollwork and Freemason symbols. |
| Date: | 08 11 1851 |
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| Description: | Photograph of the death notice of Daniel G. Fenton, a Judge of the County Court, published by the Members of the Bar of Crawford County. |
| Spirits Lead a Woman to Fortune |
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| Morris Pratt was a well known psychic medium whose legacy is his eponymous spiritualist institution in Whitewater, known locally as "Pratt's Folly." |
| How the University was Began |
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| Discover how the lack of educational opportunities in Wisconsin helped create the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 08 02 1858 |
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| Description: | One-page menu of the Mystical Seven secret society and fraternal order, with an emblem with a skull surrounded by a laurel wreath, and a crossed serpent, s... |
| Date: | 11 26 1855 |
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| Description: | Guests attend a dinner and dance sponsored by the auxiliary of the Dane County Dental Society. Seated at the table are Dr. Harris and Ruth Keel. Stopping t... |
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