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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: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The sternwheel excursion, J.S., taken near Wabasha. Caption reads: "Steamer J.S. Wabasha, Minn." |
| Date: | 1830 |
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| Description: | Illustration of Fort Crawford. Caption reads: "Fort Crawford in 1830, Prairie Du Chien, Wis." |
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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: | 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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| Description: | Postcard commemorating those who fought in the Civil War. "While above them floats 'Old Glory', Boon to all the world oppressed." |
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| Description: | Old Abe, the eagle mascot of the 8th Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, perched on a log with the background of a rural Wisconsin valley. Captio... |
| Date: | 11 01 1875 |
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| Description: | Erected in Girard, Pennsylvania, in 1875 to the memory of soldiers in the Civil War. Likeness of "Old Abe" appears on the top of the monument. On the botto... |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Excursion Boats, Foot of Jackson Street, St. Paul, Minn." People are standing along the wharf, and crowds of people are on the boats. The b... |
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