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| Date: | 05 27 1849 |
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| Description: | The wagon train crossing Laramie Creek in Wyoming. |
| Date: | 10 1852 |
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| Description: | Landscape view of the river looking downstream from Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory. An expanse of placid river water fills the center of the drawing an... |
| Date: | 06 24 1849 |
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| Description: | Original wash drawing of Fort Laramie, Wyoming (actually Fort John; see note below). Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California... |
| Date: | 1834 |
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| Description: | Peck-a-ton-oka (Pecatonica River) with Rodolf farm in the background. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | The sidewheel packet, Red Wing, in the Mississippi River near Queen's Bluff below Trempealeau, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1780 |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn plan for the layout of the town of Clarksville, bordering Mayfield Creek and Liberty Creek. Fort Jefferson is shown between the townsite and the... |
| Date: | 02 21 1874 |
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| Description: | African American boatmen run a rapids in a small river boat. |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing of Madison landscape as seen from University Hill. The main street in the center is State Street, and the building with Greek columns in the... |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing of view overlooking Madison. The sketch looks down North Hamilton Street from the capitol. Rutted, irregular streets and frame houses mark ... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Sketch of Boone's Knob and the Kentucky River, where Company A of the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry camped, November-December, 1862. The sketch was drawn by Priv... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the C.H. & L.J. McCormick Reaper Manufactory (McCormick Reaper Works). The factory was built after the Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed the origin... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Reproduction of a color rendering of Olin Terraces, an early proposal for a Madison civic center by Frank Lloyd Wright. This perspective is the view from ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Sketch of the Fox River, a train, the mill, a warehouse, and a steamboat. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Radisson cabin, the first house built by a white man in Wisconsin. It was built between 1650 and 1660 on Chequamegon Bay, in the vicinity... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Black and white ink drawing of an old wooden well. |
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| Description: | View of the Cliff House on the lake, with pine trees surrounding the property, and a cliff behind the building. |
| Date: | 08 1852 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing of a lake shoreline. A few trees frame the arc of the shore and steamboats are visible along the distant shore. |
| Date: | 08 1852 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing of Milwaukee Harbor with large sailboats on the water. In the minimalist depiction the sandy shoreline with short plant growth sweeps aroun... |
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