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Travelers on Lake Superior

Date: 1850
Description: Travelers in a rowing canoe on Lake Superior.
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Kakabeka Falls

Date: 1850
Description: Kakabeka Falls, with men in the foreground facing the falls.
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Defeat of General Braddock

Date: 01 07 1855
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...
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Madison Brewery Advertisement

Date: 1858
Description: Advertisement for the Madison Brewery operated from John Rodermund that appeared in the 1858 City Directory.
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The Pet Bird

Date: 01 1852
Description: A colored engraving depicting a bird under a glass dome with flowers and plants on a decorative shelf.
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Phasianus Versicolor

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph, produced by Wm. E. Hitchcock, of the male, left, and female Japanese green pheasant, identified as Plate 1 - Ornithology. The i...
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Phasianus Soemmeringii

Date: 1856
Description: Hand-colored lithograph of the male, left, and female copper pheasant, prepared by Wm. E. Hitchcock from drawings of specimens collected in Japan by Willia...
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Bristle Thighed Curlew

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph prepared by Wm. E. Hitchcock from William Heine's drawings of a male specimen of Numenius tahiticus (now Numenius tahit...
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Masked Laughingthrush

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph, produced by Wm. E. Hitchcock, of the adult male Garrulax perspicillatus. It was created from William Heine's drawings of...
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Heterornis Sericea

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph produced by Wm. E. Hitchcock, from drawings created by William Heine, artist to Commodore Perry's Expedition to Japan. The bird, ...
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Ixos Haemorrhous

Date: 1856
Description: A bird, identified as Ixos haemorrhous, perches on a small branch. The hand-colored lithograph was produced by Wm. E. Hitchcock from William Heine's...
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Blacktip Grouper

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph, prepared from drawings by Bayard Taylor, depicts two highly colored fish, identified as Serranus tsirimenara, top, and
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Sebastes Marmoratus

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph, made from drawings by Hamilton Patterson, Perry Expedition draftsman, of two colorful fish. Both are identified as Sebastes
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Three Fish of Japan

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph of three fish specimens collected near Japan, from drawings prepared by H. Patterson. No. 1, top, is identified as Pelor japon...
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Six Fish of Japan

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph prepared from drawings by Perry expedition draftsman Hamilton Patterson of specimens collected in the waters of Japan. Included a...
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Four Fish of Japan

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph prepared from drawings made by draftsman Hamilton Patterson of four fish collected on Perry's expedition to Japan. They are numbe...
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Three Fish of Japan

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph of three colorful fish collected and drawn by an unnamed artist on Perry's expedition to Japan. No. 1 is identified as Serranu...
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Two Salmon of Japan

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph of two species of salmon collected near Hakodate, Japan by members of the Perry expedition. James Carson Brevoort later studied t...
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Three Fish of Japan

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph of three fish specimens collected near Hakodate, Japan by members of the Perry expedition. At top, a young fish identified only a...
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Two Eels of Japan

Date: 1856
Description: A hand-colored lithograph of two eels, created from drawings and descriptions of specimens collected by members of the Perry expedition. No. 1, top, was co...

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