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Steamboat Tied at Dock

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Description: View from shoreline of unidentified steamboat tied up to a dock on the lake.
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Sherman S. Pratt and Wife Serepta Warren Pratt

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Description: Full-length quarter plate daguerreotype of Sherman and Serepta Pratt. The Pratts moved from Bath, NY to Wisconsin Rapids, WI. They are seated facing forwar...
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Eau Claire Lumber Company

Date: 1880
Description: View of a lumber mill and logs floating on a river, which is spanned by a bridge. The mill has a sign that reads: "Cash for Wheat - Eau Claire City Mill." ...
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Jacquard Loom

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Description: Large machine indoors. Caption reads: "Hartford, Conn. Weaving carpet material in the Bigelow-Hartford mill on a Jacquard loom."
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Mr. and Mrs. Carroll

Date: 1926
Description: Portrait of a man and woman, standing outside the open door to a log cabin. Caption reads: "Mr. and Mrs. Carroll, 1926."
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Sioux Sun Dance

Date: 1874
Description: Copy photograph of a painting of a Sioux Sun Dance ritual. Painting by Jules Tavernier.
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Apache Scouts for 6th Cavalry

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Description: Copy photograph of several young men posing with rifles. Caption reads: "Apache Indian scouts on duty with the 6th Cavalry at Fort Wingate. New Mexico."
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Sun Dance Near Fort Washakie

Date: 1900
Description: A group of men posing together in front of a stand of trees. Caption reads: "Indian 'Sun Dance' near Fort Washakie, Wyo, 1900."
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Chief Sharp Nose and Captain William C. Brown

Date: 1899
Description: Two men smiling and shake hands outdoors. The man on the right is wearing a military uniform, and the man on the left is holding a rifle. There is a buildi...
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Sitting Bull Oil Painting

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Description: Photograph of an oil painting of Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull, depicted standing and holding a rifle. Caption reads: "Oil painting of Sitting Bull b...
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Chief Washakie

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Description: Photograph of a portrait of Shoshone leader Chief Washakie, who is holding a pipe. Caption indicates it is "from a woodcut."
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Chief Shingabawossin

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Description: Portrait of Ojibwa chief Shingabawossin, who lived around the Sault Ste. Marie region. He fought in the 1783 Battle of St. Croix Falls and the War of 1812,...
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Village House

Date: 1870
Description: Elevated view of an unpaved main street, with the Village House across the street in the center background. Wooden buildings and wooden sidewalks are on bo...
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Old Bridge Area Manufacturing Plants

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view of several buildings, with bridge and railroad tracks, and the Fox River. In the foreground on the right is the Commercial House, with three ...
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Daniel Shaw Lumber Company

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a large building complex along a river, with a raft of logs in the water in front of it. A man is standing at the end of the raft...
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Okee-Makee-Quid

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Description: Painted portrait of a man in a feathered headdress with buffalo horns. He is wearing a cloak with an animal face in front, and he is holding a war club and...
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First Artesian Well in DePere

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of a crowd of people standing near an artesian well. Men wearing long coats and hats to protect them from the water are standing on and unde...

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