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| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | "The Famous Oshkosh Team of 1887". A composite portrait of the Oshkosh baseball team, made up of baseball card images of each player, and a central image o... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | First page of the Hand Book to Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 04 05 1862 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Camp Douglas near Chicago. Caption reads: "Camp Douglas, near Chicago, Illinois, where seven thousand rebel prisoners are quartered." |
| Date: | 04 05 1862 |
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| Description: | Group of Confederate prisoners of war assembled in prison barracks. |
| 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: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha train cars loading onto car ferry Pere Marquette. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Hardware catalog page showing wooden wash tubs and water pails. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | An etching showing the landscape and vegetation around the Rio Grande. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Illustration from the Freethinkers Pictorial Text Book of a woman climbing a steep, rocky slope to a sign that reads "Come Up Higher / The Free Thou... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | An illustration from the Freethinkers Pictorial Text Book of the evolution of uses of the cross, from a heathen phallic symbol to a Christian symbol... |
| Date: | 08 12 1865 |
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| Description: | A map of the world showing telegraphic systems for encircling the globe. |
| 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... |
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