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| Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
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| Description: | A watercolor view of Madison. Prominent on the left side of King Street is the Madison Hotel. |
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| Description: | Plat map of the Town of Madison (Township 7N, Range 9E), from Volume 4, Federal Survey Plat Books. |
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| Description: | View of five soldiers rowing in a boat, beside a dock, with another soldier standing on the dock. The fort is in the background, complete with the fortifie... |
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| Description: | Several men rowing in a boat near Fort Howard that has an American Flag, barracks, and various related military buildings enclosed behind a wall. |
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| Description: | Engraving of the five-story tall mill erected at the outlet of the Yahara Creek by Leonard J. Farwell. This engraving appears in Statistics of Dane County,... |
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| Description: | School and church, from a drawing by Johann B. Wengler, an Austrian traveller in this country. |
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| Description: | Map of the Lake Superior region showing the railroad and steamboat connection. |
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| Description: | First page of the Hand Book to Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | View across lawn toward the chapel at Ripon College. The roof has a central bell tower and a smaller, secondary tower to the right. |
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| Description: | View across lawn toward the chapel at Ripon College. The bottom half of the structure is made of brick and has tall, stained-glass windows. Above this is a... |
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| Description: | View across lawn toward the chapel at Ripon College. The bottom half of the structure is made of brick and has tall, stained-glass windows. Above this is a... |
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| Description: | View looking uphill toward the back of Ingraham Hall at Ripon College. The primary material used is brick, and the foundation and basement are stone. The b... |
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| Description: | View across lawn toward the Wright, Evans, and Shaler Halls at Ripon College. The building is made out of stone, and a porch with columns protects each doo... |
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| Description: | A pathway leads to Merriman Hall at Ripon College. The columned porch shelters a double door entrance and supports a second floor balcony. The middle thir... |
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| Description: | Smith Hall at Ripon College features a three-story porch, supported by columns and which shelters the entrance. Brackets add decoration to the roof. Vines ... |
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| Description: | A view of campus green space at Ripon College. A commemorative stone marker in the foreground has text that reads: "Rendezvous 1st Wis. Cav. Aug. 15 to Nov... |
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| Description: | Map exhaustively marks the townships, County Towns and villages of Wisconsin. It also shows rivers, canals, railroads, and plank roads. Each county's popul... |
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| Description: | Map outlines mid and southern Wisconsin county boundaries in blue, and city/town lines are provided. Other marks include mines, plank roads, and railroads. |
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| Description: | This manuscript map of the southern portion of the Town of Porterfield, Marinette County, Wisconsin, shows sections and land ownership. The Menominee River... |
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