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Painting

Fort Howard dans La Grand Baie Verte (Ouisconsin)

Date: 1842
Description: This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ...
Painting

Reid House

Date: 1842
Description: Watercolor of the Reid House, residence of William Reid at the head of Big Foot Lake (Lake Geneva). Two children and a woman are in the foreground.
Print

View of Southport

Date: 1842
Description: Lithograph of Southport.
Postcard

Watertown

Date: 1842
Description: View across the river towards several residences on the opposite shoreline. Caption reads: "Watertown in 1842."
Painting

View of La Pointe, Madeline, Wisconsin

Date: 1842
Description: American Fur Company with both Mission churches. Sketch purportedly by a Native American youth. Probably an overpainted photographic copy enlargement. Pape...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Map

Date: 1842
Description: Map reads: "Wisconsin". The map depicts the counties as of 1842 and the various areas of Indian settlements. The scale is twenty miles for every inch.
Map or Atlas

A New Map of the Western Rivers

Date: 1842
Description: A map of the Western rivers, a "travellers guide" exhibiting the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and Illinois Rivers with principal towns.
Map or Atlas

Map of Northern Illinois and the Surveyed Part of Wisconsin

Date: 1842
Description: This map shows portions of northern Illinois and Wisconsin surveyed by the map's creation. It shows county lines and university land, and depicts lead and ...

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