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| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | This map shows lot and block numbers, streets, depot building, and the Milwaukee & Mississippi Rail Road. |
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| Description: | This map is ink and watercolor on paper and includes certifications inscribed by Saml. T. [M?]ight, a civil engineer, Edward H. Brodhead, James H. Lockwood... |
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| Description: | This map is ink and color on paper and mounted on cloth. The map shows lot and block numbers, streets, a railroad, and the Kickapoo River. Some lots are c... |
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| Description: | This map shows the Manitowoc River, Lake Michigan, streets, and buildings. Relief is shown by hachures and soundings are in feet and decimals of a foot. Th... |
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| Description: | This map shows streets, piers, and wharves. Lake Michigan, the Manitowoc River, and select buildings are labeled. Relief is shown by hachures and sounding... |
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| Description: | Ninth plate ambrotype of Martin Stoddard at age 17. Half figure facing front and slightly left, wearing coat, vest, and tie. |
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| Description: | A hand-colored lithograph of three colorful fish collected and drawn by an unnamed artist on Perry's expedition to Japan. No. 1 is identified as Serranu... |
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| Description: | A hand-colored lithograph of two species of salmon collected near Hakodate, Japan by members of the Perry expedition. James Carson Brevoort later studied t... |
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| Description: | A hand-colored lithograph of three fish specimens collected near Hakodate, Japan by members of the Perry expedition. At top, a young fish identified only a... |
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| Description: | A hand-colored lithograph of two eels, created from drawings and descriptions of specimens collected by members of the Perry expedition. No. 1, top, was co... |
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| Description: | A hand-colored lithograph prepared from drawings and descriptions of two shark specimens collected near Shimoda by members of Perry's Japan expedition. No.... |
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| Description: | An etching, labeled Conchology Plate 1 depicts a number of bivalve mollusks collected and drawn by members of the Perry expedition. The specimens we... |
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| Description: | A hand-colored etching, labeled Choncology Plate II, depicts mollusks collected by the Perry expedition. The specimens were described and named by p... |
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| Description: | An etching, labeled Conchology Plate III, depicts two large mollusks collected by members of the Perry expedition. They were described and named by physici... |
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| Description: | An etching, labeled Conchology Plate IV which depicts the exterior, Figure 1, and interior of the shell of the scallop identified as Pecten yesso... |
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| Description: | A hand-colored etching of the shells of mollusks collected by members of the Perry expedition, described and named by physician and conchologist John Clark... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Half plate ambrotype of an elevated view of Portage City, Wisconsin. The view encompasses a wooden Gothic Revival church and steeple on the right, with a d... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length semi profile portrait of Edward Phelps Allis, an industrialist who formed the Edward P. Allis Company in Milwaukee, initially manufacturing ... |
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