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| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting of the second Fort Crawford, built 1829-1835. Two men are in a boat in the water in the foreground. The first Fort Crawford at Pra... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait, possibly of Jane Fisher Rolette Dousman, wife of Hercules Dousman and mother of H. Louis Dousman. The photograph has been enh... |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the McCormick Reaper Works as it appeared in 1847. The factory was located on the north bank of the Chicago River, east of the Michigan Avenue... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Abraham Lincoln, from the original daguerreotype owned by his son, Robert T. Lincoln. |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | Shooting of Charles C.P. Arndt by James Vineyard in the territorial council chamber of the legislature. This depiction of the event was created by the staf... |
| Date: | 04 1841 |
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| Description: | A notice published In Memory of President Wm. H. Harrison, 9th President of the United States, upon his death, April 4, 1841, at the age of 68. The tribut... |
| Date: | 10 1844 |
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| Description: | A variant of a wood engraving dated October, 1844. Incorporated as the villige of Southport in 1841 (so-named because it was the southern-most natural harb... |
| Date: | 10 1844 |
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| Description: | View from a pile-driver on the north pier of the community then known as Southport. The pier visible at left center, constructed between 1840-1842, was th... |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | Drawing of Front and State Streets, showing the first houses in La Crosse. |
| Date: | 1841 |
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| Description: | View across the river towards several residences on the opposite shoreline. |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | View of the gorge at St. Croix with a boat and multiple figures visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | View of Cheever's Mill, located on the St. Croix River. |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Handbill advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper, manufactured by the company then known as McCormick, Ogden & Co. Features a small drawing of the r... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | The first school house at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. There is a fence behind the building, and hills in the background. |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Fort Crawford (the second site, with buildings of 1829-?), on the east bank of the Mississippi River, about 2 miles above the mouth of the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | A view of Fort Crawford (the second site and buildings of 1829-?). |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Menominee woman, Iwa-toke, "The Serpent," sister to Ke-wah-ten, "The North Wind." |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Ke-wah-ten or "The North Wind," sister to Iwa-toke, "The Serpent." |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Masthead of Racine, Wisconsin temperance publication The Old Oaken Bucket and Sons of Temperance Organ. The masthead features a bucolic scene at the... |
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