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Fort Howard

Date: 1851
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 ...
Poster

Advertising Handbill for Hatch and Whitely

Date: 1851
Description: Advertising handbill for reapers designed by A.J. Cook and manufactured by Hatch and Whitely of Springfield in Clark County, Ohio.
Photograph

Fort Howard and Soldiers in a Boat

Date: 1851
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...
Drawing

Fort Howard

Date: 1851
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.
Print

McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper Broadsheet

Date: 1851
Description: Handbill advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper, manufactured by C.H. McCormick & Co. Includes an illustration of the reaper in use. One man is dri...
Print

McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper

Date: 1851
Description: Handbill or Broadsheet advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper. Includes an illustration of the reaper in use. One man is driving the horses, anothe...
Photograph

George Walter Oakley

Date: 1851
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of George Walter Oakley as a child standing next to a cloth-covered table with his both his hands resting on top of it, ...
Photograph

Chapel, Ripon College

Date: 1851
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.
Photograph

Ripon College

Date: 1851
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...
Photograph

Chapel, Ripon College

Date: 1851
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...
Photograph

Wright, Evans, and Shaler Halls, Ripon College

Date: 1851
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...
Photograph

Merriman Hall, Ripon College

Date: 1851
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...
Photograph

Smith Hall, Ripon College

Date: 1851
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 ...
Photograph

Ripon College

Date: 1851
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...
Print

Hussey's Grain Cutter

Date: 1851
Description: Illustration of two men using a Hussey Grain Cutter in a field. One man is riding on the grain cutter, and another man is riding on one of two horses pulli...
Print

Hussey's Reaping & Mowing Machine

Date: 1851
Description: Back side of direction sheet, featuring two illustrations of men using the machine in a field. The top illustration has the title: "This cut represents the...
Photograph

Charles Krips

Date: 1851
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Charles Krips. Charles Krips was the uncle of the donor of the portrait, Mrs. Julia Hicks. The portrait is a bust figure, faci...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1851
Description: Elevated view of a central street lined with businesses. Automobiles are parked at the curbs. There is a large building with columns on the left near an op...
Postcard

Panel of the Brown County Court House

Date: 1851
Description: Elevated view across water towards Fort Howard. In the foreground is a man standing on a pier, and in the water nearby are five men rowing in a boat. Capti...
Photograph

Fort Howard

Date: 1851
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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