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WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.

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APPENDIX NO. VII.

REPORT ON THE PICTURE GALLEHY.
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The committee on the Picture Gallery would respectfully
make the following report :
During the past two years, since the date of the Society's
last published Report, there have been added to the Gallery fif-
teen pictures, thirteen of which are portraits, and two llistori-
cal views.
This department of the Society'a labors is rapidly growing
in interest and value ; and the interest manifested by visitors
is an unmistakable proof of the wisdom of adding this feature
to the attractions of our rooms. A speaking portrait will often
live in th9 remembrance of the people, and serve to retain the
memory of early pioneers, far more than any written descrip-
tion of themselves, their lives or their labors. We have been
generally very successful in obtaining reliable portraits of our
early pioneers. As yet we have tho portraits of but one Gov-
ernor-Governor BARSTOW-although all have promised. But
one of the Judges of our Supreme Court has fulfilled his prom-
ise, and gratified the Society, by placing his portrait in our
Gallery-Judge A. D. ~MIT~. Of our Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress we have but one each-Senator WALKER
and the late Hon. BEN. C. EABTMAN. It is earnestly hoped
that these deficiencies will soon be supphed, so that the list of
the "representative men" of our state may be complete.
I. THE PECATONICA BATTLE FIELD.-If we consider the
numbers engaged, but few of our American battle fields are
worthy of s place on the map of history. If we consider
the bravery displayed and the daring manifested, hardly one
would be passed unnoticed by history. The Pecatonica