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Filter: Year of 1840-1849
| Date: | 1842 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | The first Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, with the Mississippi River in the foreground. Although dated 1830, this scene was actually painted by Henry Le... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 1842 |
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| Description: | American Fur Company with both Mission churches. Sketch purportedly by a Native American youth. Probably an overpainted photographic copy enlargement. Pape... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Pencil sketch of a cross-section of the Dells of the Wisconsin River. People are in a row boat in the center. Caption at bottom: "The Dells — Wisconsin Riv... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Sod-breaker and five yoke of oxen plowing in front of the “Old Cottage Inn.” In the foreground a boat is on the shoreline. |
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