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| Follow links to documents by missionaries, traders, Indian agents, linguists and anthropologists which help preserve more than 20 endangered languages. |
| Follow online links to rare American Indian language primary documents, including early dictionaries, textbooks, spelling books and firsthand accounts. |
| Information on over 7,000 photographers who were active in Wisconsin from about 1840 to 1976. |
| Introduction to the Citizen Petition collection |
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| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype portrait of Lyman Draper (1815-1891), an American historical collector and librarian. |
| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Mathilde Anneke; Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Lavinia Goodell, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Ephraim Williams, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Helen Farnsworth Mears, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Lutie Eugenia Stearns, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Benjamin Butts, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| C. Latham Sholes, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Carson Gulley, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Lou Ringling | Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers and Storytellers |
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| Billy Schultz, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
| Adam and Mary Smith House, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin |
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| Ornate masion slated to be deomolished is saved using Historic Preservation Tax Credits, relocated, and becomes centerpiece of new housing development. |
| Birchard-Follansbee Block, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
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| Johnson Bank buys and rehabilitates an 1867 four-story French Second Empire style building in Milwaukee. |
| Merrill City Hall, Merrill, Wisconsin |
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| 1889 Queen Anne style city hall building is saved and rehabilitated to apartments in Merrill. |
| Jeffris Flats Apartments, Janesville, Wisconsin |
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| Janesville YMCA partnered with local bank to rehabilitate old building and establish housing for victims of domestic abuse. |
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