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Walter Bray

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Description: Seated studio portrait of Walter Bray, Richard Quinney's great great grandfather.
Photograph

Rachel Baker Bray

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Description: Seated studio portrait of Rachel Baker Bray, Richard Quinney's great great grandmother.
Photograph

Bridget O'Keefe Quinney

Date: 1919
Description: Brigit O'Keefe Quinney, Richard Quinney's great grandmother, sitting next to the family's farmhouse and flowering hollyhocks.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Precedents: Seymour family

Date: 1934-06-03
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Precedents: Barker family

Date: 1935-02-14
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Precedents: Ely family

Date: 1935-12-29
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

A little family history: Smith family

Date: 1906-06-29
County: Columbia
City: Lodi
Photograph

Mrs. Mary Kundrat, Czechoslovakian Immigrant

Date: 11 06 1965
Description: Mrs. Mary Kundrat, age 85, moved to the United States from Czechoslovakia in 1907. She describes her life in places she has lived and the work she has done...
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Citizen Procedures for Foreign Doctors

Date: 05 26 1964
Description: New citizens Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Vognar of Ft. Atkinson, with their twin daughters, Daniella (left) and Stella, at the Naturalization ceremonies. They are...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

How a pioneer saw this country, 1847, a poisoned wolf

Date: 1921-01-15
County: Columbia
City: Portage
Newspaper Article/Clipping

New Glarus to celebrate 90th anniversary

Date: 1935-03-15
County: Green
City: New Glarus
Photograph

American Citizenship Course

Date: 03 29 1960
Description: Richard D. Carleton, left, instructor from the Madison Vocational school, stands at a blackboard with two of his students, Frank Vanhontte, from Belgium, a...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Founder of Antigo to be honored Memorial Day

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County: Langlade
City: Antigo
Photograph

Johan F. Glaaser Contributes to the United Givers Fair Share Club

Date: 09 17 1965
Description: Johan F. Glaaser, 4801 Rothman Place, is a contributor to the United Givers Fair Share Club program. Glaaser, originally from Amsterdam, Holland, works as ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Early "Forties" saw growing influx of settlers in Madison

Date: 1920-01-04
County: Dane
City: Madison
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Early Germans gave city its start in music

Date: 1924-11-23
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Photograph

Siggelkow Family

Date: 05 30 1851
Description: Portrait of the Siggelkow Family of copied from a lost daguerreotype. In the back row from left to right are Augusta Scharlotte, Johann Adolph, Marie Louis...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Early Elkhart Lake settlers

Date: 1921-09-??
County: Sheboygan
City: Sheboygan
Historical Essay

Episcopals in Wisconsin

Brief history of Episcopals in Wisconsin.
Classroom Material

Civil War Draft in Wisconsin

Wisconsin and the Civil War
Use the 1862 Civil War Draft Riots to examine differing opinions on the Civil War in Wisconsin

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