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| Date: | 01 21 1951 |
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| Description: | The only "let-out" coat made of matched chinchilla fur in existence is modeled by an unidentified woman at a Milwaukee style show. |
| Provides a comprehensive summary of women's history in Wisconsin and contains primary sources from the 16th century to the early 21st century. |
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| Description: | Inset of head and shoulders portrait of "Queen Marinette" along with a depiction of her home, which was one of the earliest houses in Marinette. She was th... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A woman is seated in front of silver fox pelts hanging from pegs at the Fromm Brothers Fur and Ginseng Farm sale. On the right is a poster of an advertisem... |
| Date: | 1833 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Solomon Juneau fur trading post at Milwaukee in 1833. |
| Read about Black history in Wisconsin. There are many links to original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts, and other primary sources. |
| Speakers Bureau |
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| Mary Elise Antoine is a WHS Press author and a member of the Wisconsin Historical Society Speakers Bureau. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Quilled buckskin pouch used by Charles de Langlade to carry his fur trade papers in northern Wisconsin, mid to late 1700s. (Museum object #1955.186) |
| Fur Trader |
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| Brief bio of Augustin Grignon, a fur trader who ran a gristmill and flour mill at Kaukauna. |
| The First White Men in Madison |
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| The first white residents of Madison were fur traders Wallace Rowan, Olivier Ammel and Michel St. Cyr. |
| Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
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| Chapter 4 description and supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
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