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| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | This image was copied by artist Seth Eastman in 1849 and printed in Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's The History of the Indian Tribes of the United States, Hist... |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Naw-Kaw or Wood. Hand-colored lithograph from History of the Indian Tribes of North America. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Cover of a pamphlet, printed in German, advertising land for sale in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Ojibwa, the Sacs, and Foxes battling from canoes on the water. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Native Americans playing a lacrosse-like game of ball. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Indian women standing on platforms make noise to scare birds from the cornfield. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Three women in a canoe harvest wild rice. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Indians standing and sitting near wigwams. Four wigwam frames are covered, with the one on the right uncovered, with a campfire inside. In the distance are... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Pictographs on Lake Superior and Carp River, Mich. Six rows of animals, canoes, birds, human figures, and other symbols. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Title page of a picturesque and descriptive book about Lake Geneva showing two steamboats "Lady Of The Lake" and "Lucius Newberry." |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Illustration of northern and southern celestial hemispheres as seen in Black's General Atlas of the World. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Falls of St. Anthony, as seen in The Indian Tribes of the United States: their history antiquities, customs, religion, arts, languag... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Title page for the book "Nord-Amerika, Wisconsin, Calumet," by Dr. Carl de Haas. |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Foldout map of a sketch of the town grid of Calumet. |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Foldout map of southern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | Title page of the book "Wisconsin: Geography and Topography". |
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| Description: | Portrait of Charles W. Fenlason, who served as a private in the Civil War in Company G, 4th Wisconsin Cavalry (later Infantry). A resident of Farmington [T... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | "Ancient copper mining on Lake Superior." |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | A engraving of the artist's conception of Pawnees torturing a female captive in the Morning Star Sacrifice ceremony. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Color drawing of beavers working on and living at their dams. |
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