Date: | 1821 |
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Description: | Engraving depicting the Schoolcraft expedition crossing the Ontonagon River to investigate a copper boulder. |
Date: | 1850 |
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Description: | Chippewa Indian Sugar Camp. Plate 61, preceding p. 199, vol. I, The Indian tribes of the United States: their history antiquities, customs, religion, ar... |
Date: | 1854 |
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Description: | Drawing of the Porcupine Mountains on Lake Superior. A deer is standing in the lake drinking water. A man is on the rock ledge above the shoreline and is a... |
Date: | 1844 |
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Description: | Hunters using rifles to kill buffalo (Plate 11). "This plate represents the familiar mode of procuring meat, practiced by all the voyageurs on the Missou... |
Date: | 1844 |
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Description: | Indians on snowshoes hunting buffaloes immobilized by snow (Plate 15). "In this plate is illustrated the mode alluded to in the preceding page, of the In... |
Date: | 1844 |
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Description: | Indian with rifle in prone position hunting antelope (Plate 20). "The antelope of the prairies and Rocky Mountains of America, which I believe to be diff... |
Date: | 1844 |
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Description: | Choctaw Indians performing dance (Plate 22). "As I have mentioned in former pages that for nearly all their hunts, wars, or games, the events of which th... |
Date: | 1844 |
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Description: | Large group of Indians engaged in the game of lacrosse (Plate 23). "Having in the two former illustrations and their chapters, explained to the readers t... |
Date: | 1844 |
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Description: | Mandan Indians engaged in archery competition (Plate 24). "The meeting represented here is something like that of an Archery Club in the civilized world,... |
Date: | 1655 |
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Description: | Frontispiece to Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien (1655). |
Date: | 1655 |
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Description: | Engraving made after a watercolor painting by John White during the Barlowe Expedition in Virginia, 1585-1587. |
Date: | 1784 |
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Description: | Plate 41. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska. |
Date: | 01 07 1855 |
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Description: | Sketch of the defeat of General Braddock during an ambush in the French and Indian War. Caption reads: "Defeat of General Braddock, in the French and India... |
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: | |
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Description: | Artists depiction of a natural rock formation called "The Urn," which is 17 feet tall with another 10 feet of trees growing on top of the formation. |
Date: | 1845 |
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Description: | Illustration of a young couple romancing by a well as another young woman watches from behind. |
Date: | 1849 |
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Description: | Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves. |
Date: | 05 05 1970 |
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Description: | Steve Landaal and two friends sit on a log over a creek at the Sound Storm rock festival. They are enjoying nude sunbathing. |
Date: | 03 15 1862 |
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Description: | Engraved Illustration for the story titled: "The Fight at Fort Donelson". The illustration shows the Second Iowa Volunteers regiment attacking Confederate ... |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | An illustration depicting the cheese factory and dry goods store of J.G. Pickett at Pickett's Station. |
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