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Some of those passports were family passports or group passports. A passport application could cover, variously, a wife, a child, or children, one or more servants, or a woman traveling under the protection of a man. The passport would be issued to the man. Similarly, a passport application could cover a child traveling with their mother.
The Wisconsin Historical Society (officially the State Historical Society of Wisconsin) is simultaneously a state agency and a private membership organization whose purpose is to maintain, promote and spread knowledge relating to the history of North America, with an emphasis on the state of Wisconsin and the trans-Allegheny West. [3]
Remnants of the old downtown of Edgerton, including the ca. 1860 Bentley Dry Goods store, [117] the 1885 Commercial Hotel, [118] the mid-1880s Red Front Grocery Store, [119] the late-1880s Strucker and Mays Grocery store, [120] the 1890 Tobacco Exchange Bank, [121] the 1916 Spike Brothers Livery, and the ca. 1916 Joe Leary Cigar Store-Badger ...
A fragment of the old Yankee Hill neighborhood on the lower east side, including the William Metcalf house, which started as a Greek Revival-styled home in 1854, [34] the 1862 early-Italianate Carey house, [35] the 1874 full-on Italianate Inbusch house, [36] the 1883 Queen Anne-styled Brandt doublehouse, [37] the 1904 Gothic Revival-styled ...
This is a list of National Historic Landmarks in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. National Historic Landmarks are designated by the U.S. National Park Service, which recognizes buildings, structures, districts, objects, and sites which satisfy certain criteria for historic significance. There are 45 National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin.
June 19, 1985 (420 Henry Mall, University of Wisconsin campus: Madison: Georgian revival-style building designed by Paul Cret and Warren Laird, built in 1912, where Elmer McCollum discovered vitamins A and B, Harry Steenbock found that vitamin D could be concentrated by irradiating food, Conrad Elvehjem isolated niacin, and Karl Link isolated the anticoagulant dicoumarol.
Name Image Built Listed Location County Type Armstrong Creek Bridge: 1908 2011-11-18 Armstrong Creek: Forest: Barteau Bridge: 1906 2002-03-28 Bovina: Outagamie
Financed by Congressional action in 1832 and constructed between 1835 and 1837, [5] the first military road in Wisconsin Territory connected three forts. [6] From Fort Howard near Green Bay, the road extended south along the eastern shore of Lake Winnebago and then headed southwest toward Fort Winnebago (near present-day Portage along the Wisconsin River).