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| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, Red Wing, with the excursion barge, Mae, at a landing. Caption reads: "Saint Paul, Minn. Steamboat Landing." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Riverboats tied at the levee in La Crosse with the Gypsy in the foreground. Caption reads: "The Levee, La Crosse, Wis." |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S., taken near Wabasha. Caption reads: "Steamer J.S. Wabasha, Minn." |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the sidewheel excursion, Saint Paul, on the Mississippi River taken in 1909. St. Paul, Minnesota is seen in the background. Later n... |
| Date: | 09 14 1911 |
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| Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers in a Wright Model B at Appleton Baseball Park. Cal Rodgers, a member of the famous Perry family, learned to fly at the Wright Flyin... |
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| Description: | Colorized view of the Capitol Park and the replica of Centennial fountain installed in the park in 1878. The green paint is a change made in 1898. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Postcard depicting the fire of February 26-27, 1904 that destroyed most of the second Wisconsin State Capitol. The smoke and flames have been dramatically ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | This card which is postmarked 1912 shows the zinc statutes on the stone gateways near the sidewalk at Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.). Ori... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Colorized view of the Wisconsin Central Railroad depot. Caption reads: "Wisconsin Central R. R. Depot, Ladysmith, Wis." |
| Date: | 1830 |
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| Description: | Illustration of Fort Crawford. Caption reads: "Fort Crawford in 1830, Prairie Du Chien, Wis." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View across water toward Fort Sumter. Caption reads: "Fort Sumter, Charleston, S. C." |
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| Description: | Color postcard of a section of the cyclorama painting "Battle of Atlanta" executed by painters under Wilhem Wehner in the 1880s. This scene shows the fight... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across street toward the headquarters. Caption reads: "General Grant's headquarters during the summer & fall of 1862 before the Battle of Corinth." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Color postcard view of house with trees and yard on a hill. Caption reads: "Grant's Headquarters, Vicksburg, Miss." |
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| Description: | Color postcard view of the railroad locomotive used in a famous Civil War incident, which was later retold in Buster Keaton's motion picture The General... |
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| Description: | Color postcard with a poem, and featuring a man holding a ragged Confederate battle flag. |
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| Description: | A group portrait of former members of "Quantrell's Band" at a reunion. |
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| Description: | Post Civil War Era postcard: "And foremost Still Among the free their spirits shall by his decree lead on through all eternity." |
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| Description: | Postcard commemorating those who fought during the Civil War. "Nor shall their story be forgot, While Fame her record keeps." |
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