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Museum Collections Online
Nearly 4,000 artifacts from the Wisconsin Historical Museum have now been pictured and described on our website. Check out paintings, dolls, quilts, moccasins, samplers and children's clothing through the link above. And don't forget the Wis. Decorative Arts Database, showing 200 objects of all sorts from local historical societies around the state,
New Pictures Online
Every day we add more historical images to our online collection, Wisconsin Historical Images. Not just Wisconsin, but the whole country. Not only candid snapshots, but work by major photographers. And not only photographs, but also posters, engravings, lithographs, maps and more. See the last 30 days' worth of additions by clicking above.
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He Must Have Been YapsOne of the more fascinating aspects of any culture is the jargon that its members speak. Whether they're an immigrant community or professional colleagues, a sports league or a religious sect, any group that shares the same values and lifestyle will evolve a unique vocabulary for talking about it. For example, a lumberjack arriving at a northern Wisconsin hospital supposedly...
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Wisconsin Magazine of History
The Autumn 2008 issue features articles on the cancelled 1957 and 1958 Wisconsin Badger football games against Louisiana State due to Louisiana's segregation laws, Camp Randall as a prisoner of war facility during the Civil War, and the fight for women journalists to integrate the Milwaukee Press Club. |
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Three Historic Sites to Celebrate Christmas
