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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of J. Wesley Carhart of Racine, Methodist minister, physician, and inventor of a steam-powered automobile in 1871. Although impractical, ... |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | An engraving depicting a woman reprimanding a young woman, while a young man looks in at a window in the background. |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | A young woman looks out her arched window with a bird cage hanging outdoors. |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Illustration of a young couple romancing by a well as another young woman watches from behind. |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | An unhappy looking bride is seated in a chair looking out the window as another woman sits on the floor holding her hand. A third woman looks on angrily. |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | A woman sits at a table reading while apparently neglecting her whole family. |
| Date: | 04 13 1861 |
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| Description: | Etching from a photograph of Mrs. General Gaines. |
| Date: | 04 1849 |
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| Description: | Engraving with color of two women modeling high fashion dresses. |
| Date: | 05 23 1863 |
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| Description: | Cartoon appearing in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Page 144. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Copperheads nominally favored th... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the lake steamer, Michigan with another vessel in the background. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the steamboat Western World. Several people stand on the deck. An American flag and flags reading Detroit, Michigan Central, Buffalo, N.Y... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Joc-O-Sot, "A Sauk Chief from the Upper Missouri, U.S.A." |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | "The Scalp Dance is given as a celebration of a victory; and amongst this tribe, as I learned whilst residing with them, danced in the night, by the light ... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Mah-To-Toh-Pa. He is holding a decorated spear. "In the former letter I gave some account of Mah-to-toh-pa (the four bears), second... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Group of men engaged in a war dance. They hold spears, axes, and bows. (Plate 29) |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | North American Indians on horseback during a buffalo hunt. "In [this plate], I have represented a party of Indians in chase of a herd, some of whom are pur... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of North American Indians. Portraits of the O-Jib-Be-Ways, and individual portraits, one smoking a pipe. Symbols corresponding to individual... |
| Date: | 05 31 1862 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of the Commisary [sic] depot of Major-General Halleck's army at Hamburg Landing. |
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