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Inside the tomb of Wisconsin’s mysterious incorrupt priest.
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The grave of Morris Pratt, whose school of Spiritualism is believed by some to have left the entire town of Whitewater haunted.
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Today is National Christmas Card Day. The city of Elkhorn, WI is known as the Christmas Card Town. Every year, the city commissions an artist to paint a new holiday scene for their official Christmas cards. This year’s work by T. James Carson depicts the historic train station.
More:Weird Wisconsin Christmas
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Coffin corners are commonly believed to be one of the many weird myths about the Victorian age, but the stories of life in the historic Galloway House offer evidence to the contrary.
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Grand entrance hall of the Galloway House. View from the front doors looking into the conservatory. The light hanging from the ceiling is a combination electric chandelier and gasolier, using gas lights when the electricity was unreliable.
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Coffin corners are commonly believed to be one of the many weird myths about the Victorian age, but the stories of life in the historic Galloway House offer evidence to the contrary.
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Milwaukee, Wis., Sept 6.–A remarkable photograph is that which A.G. Veith, Austrian consul in Milwaukee, brings home from a western trip. Mr. Veith and a number of fellow passengers in a Yosemite valley coach were held up by a lone highwayman, and when the highwayman had finished the job he graciously consented to stand for a photograph of the scene, including himself. This was taken by Mr. Veith, and is probably the only photograph of the kind ever taken.
Mr. Veith said:
“We were all requested by the highwayman to stand in a row. As we did so I asked the German guide whether he would join me in tackling the man. He shook his head.
“The robber searched the women, and became angry when he discovered one of them trying to hide some money in a camera. When we got back into the stage he seemed disappointed at the small amount of his haul and asked: ‘Now, is that all the money you have?’ I told him my watch was an heirloom, and worth little to him, and so he gave it back. He had ordered the driver to go ahead, and I, in a back seat, saw him wave his hand at us, and I waved back. Then it occurred to me that a photograph would be a good thing to have. I asked him whether he would do me the favor.
“‘Well, I don’t suppose anybody’d know me, anyhow, in this disguise,’ he remarked. ‘Go ahead.’
“And that is how I got the picture.”
~From The Spokane press. (Spokane, Wash.), 06 Sept. 1905. Chronicling America. Lib. of Congress.
“Milwaukee, Wis.–In a will eight and one-half feet long Miss Matilda Tommet bequeathed everything from money to chicken feed to friends, but an old pair of shoestrings went to an enemy.”
~FromThe day book. (Chicago, Ill.), 06 Sept. 1913. Chronicling America. Lib. of Congress.
Ice skaters at Kosciuszko Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 7, 1922.
Nitrate negative, Photo by Roman B.J. Kwasniewski
via:University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
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University President E.B Fred goes ice fishing with Ruth Pommerening and Aristotle Alexander, Madison, Wisconsin, 1945-1958.
via:The UW-Madison Collection, University of Wisconsin Archives and UW Digital Collections
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Women pose on a skating rink in front of the University of Wisconsin Armory and Gymnasium, also called “the Red Gym,” Madison, Wisconsin.
via: University of Wisconsin Madison Archives, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
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Hunters with their dogs. The man third from the right is identified as Ed Rosenthal and fourth from the right as George Roseninal, Vesper, Wood County, Wisconsin, 1948-1952.
via:South Wood County Historical Society
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Shoveling the Walk, Wisconsin Rapids, Wood County, Wisconsin, 1948-1952.
Photo by Donald Krohn
via:South Wood County Historical Museum
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Civilian Conservation Corps Camp 657, Two recruits and four young women ice skate on Otter Lake, Elcho, Langlade County, Wisconsin, 1933-1937.
Photo by Edward Drab
via:Langlade County Historical Society
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Ice boating, Lake Mendota, Madison, Wisconsin, 1907.
via: University of Wisconsin Madison Archives, University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
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John Hausch watches as his son, Bobby, displays a Northern pike caught during Fisheree on Eagle Spring Lake, Eagle, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, January, 1964.
Photo by Dean Tvedt
via:Wisconsin’s Historic Natural Resources Photos, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
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Boy with ice skates, Wisconsin Rapids, Wood County, Wisconsin, 1948-1952.
Photograph by Donald Krohn
via:South Wood Historical Society Museum
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Miss Apolonia Makowska, female ice skater, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1922.
Photographs by Roman B.J. Kwasniewski
via:University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
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Iceboating, a man identified as “Grede” lays in an iceboat on Lake Mendota, Madison, Wisconsin, February 26, 1916.
Photo by Fred R. Jones
via:The UW-Madison Collection, University of Wisconsin Archives and UW Digital Collections
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Man cutting ice with large saw embedded in river ice, pre 1960.
via:Historic Photo Collection, F.P. Zeidler Humanities Room, Milwaukee Public Library
Ice Cutters, Wood County, Wisconsin, 1948-1952.
Photo by Lawrence Oliver
via:South Wood County Historical Museum
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Students walk along a snowy Bascom Hill. The old, domed Bascom Hall and the old Law School are visible, along with wooden sidewalks along Park Street, University of Wisconsin-Madison, ca. 1900.
via:UW-Madison Collection, University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives and University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
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Grand Trunk Car Ferry, Port of Milwaukee, Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, 1930s-60s.
via:Milwaukee Waterways, Milwaukee Public Library
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Statue of Liberty on Lake Mendota, Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin.
The Statue of Liberty was built on Lake Mendota in February 1979 by the Pail and Shovel Party, which had gained control of the Wisconsin Student Association in the spring of 1978. The original statue was torched by an unknown arsonist ten days after it had been constructed. A new, improved statue was erected in February of 1980. That statue was rescued from a barn near Richland Center in the mid 1990s, and Hoofers helped restore it and used it in their Winter Carnival in 1996. The statue currently belongs to Dane County.
via:UW-Madison Collection, University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives and University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
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One of two extant effigy mounds in the Observatory Hill Mound Group, partially outlined by snow, behind Agricultural Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Read more about Wisconsin effigy mounds: http://recollectionwisconsin.org/exploring-effigy-mounds
via:UW-Madison Collection, University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
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Blizzard-like conditions, view of Highway 41, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, February 8, 1936.
Colored glass lantern slide. Photo by George Chase
via:The State of Wisconsin Collection, Kenosha County Historical Society and UW Digital Collections Center
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Grand Trunk car ferry crossing a frozen Lake Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1936-37.
Photograph by Julias Fanta
via:Milwaukee Waterways hosted by the Milwaukee Public Library
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Ice formations at a mill, Gagen, Langlade County, Wisconsin, 1900 – 1920.
Photograph by Arthur J. Kingsbury
via:Langlade County Historical Society
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Cornfalfa Farms, New Berlin, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, 1915.
Several lambs and their mother stand outside the barn door as Jayson Swartz observes on a cold winter day.
Trees in the original south orchard. Some of these trees were set out in the 1850s by William Swartz, father of Peter Morgan Swartz.
Jayson Swartz walking in deep snow in alfalfa field on Cornfalfa Farms. Illustrating Swartz’s recommendation that ample fall growth and trapping snow is beneficial to a healthy crop for the following year.
via: New Berlin Historical Society
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