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Book or Pamphlet

Glacier National Park

Date: 
Description: View of Glacier National Park, including people, horses, and tipis.
Print

Narrative Journal of Travels

Date: 1820
Description: Narrative Journal of Travels from Detroit Northwest through the Great chain of American Lakes to the sources of the Mississippi River in the year 1820. Ill...
Map or Atlas

Missouri Map

Date: 
Description: Map of Missouri with major cities, rivers, and railroads marked.
Drawing

Woodcutter

Date: 1941
Description: Woodcut illustration of a man outdoors on the side of a hill, holding an axe and standing next to a fallen tree.
Drawing

Evergreen Shelter Belts and Ornamental Hedges

Date: 1878
Description: Engraved view of a house surrounded by gardens, an evergreen shelter belt and ornamental hedges.
Photograph

Natural Meadow

Date: 1914
Description: View of clumps of grasses in a meadow with a handful of trees in the background.
Print

Ancient Works at Merton

Date: 1851
Description: Map of a portion of Merton including the Bark River, a mill, Fort Hill, and Indian mounds.
Print

The American Soldier, Rifle Regiment Officer

Date: 1976
Description: "A general staff officer stands in the left foreground in the single-breasted blue coat with black herringbone false buttonholes on the chest and cuffs and...
Map or Atlas

Russian Map of Alaska

Date: 
Description: The first Russian map of Alaska.
Print

In Rood's Glen

Date: 1874
Description: Engraved view of Rood's Glen. A boy plays with a toy boat at bottom left while two men and a woman talk at bottom right. Two other figures can be seen in t...
Print

Maiden's Rock, Lake Pepin

Date: 1874
Description: Engraved view of Maiden's Rock at Lake Pepin. A steamboat is on the Mississippi River.
Print

Scenery above La Crosse

Date: 
Description: La Crosse and scenery above.
Print

Dalles of the Wisconsin "The Jaws"

Date: 
Description: Engraved view of "The Jaws" in the Wisconsin Dells.
Print

A Velocipede of Fifty Years Ago

Date: 03 06 1869
Description: Engraved image of a man in a top hat and tails riding a velocipede. Another rider is in the background.
Map or Atlas

Map of the Fox-Wisconsin Rivers

Date: 1887
Description: Map of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers to accompany Reuben Gold Thwaites' Historic Waterways.
Map or Atlas

Ancient Works at Indian Prairie

Date: 1850
Description: Map showing Indian mounds and graves as well as ground cover types at Township 8, Range 22. There is an inset diagram of an effigy mound labeled "The Cross...
Book or Pamphlet

A Geographical and Topographical Description of Wisconsin

Date: 1844
Description: Title page of Increase Lapham's A Geographical and Topographical Description of Wisconsin published by P.C. Hale of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Print

Olympian Hiawatha

Date: 1946
Description: Reproduction of a painting depicting an Olympian Hiawatha locomotive and an Olympian Hiawatha observation car traveling in the western United States. A man...
Map or Atlas

A Map of the Louisville & Portland Canal

Date: 1828
Description: Map of the Louisville and Portland Canal on the Ohio River. The map shows Louisville, Shippingsport, Clarksville, Jeffersonville, Gravel Island, Corn Islan...
Magazine or Periodical

Frank G. Lenz

Date: 1892
Description: Portrait of Frank Lenz on his safety bicycle which he rode on a round-the-world tour. He is posed on a country road lined with fences and telegraph or tele...

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