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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Three women in a canoe harvest wild rice. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Indians standing and sitting near wigwams. Four wigwam frames are covered, with the one on the right uncovered, with a campfire inside. In the distance are... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of La Crosse from the Mississippi River. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Pictographs on Lake Superior and Carp River, Mich. Six rows of animals, canoes, birds, human figures, and other symbols. |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Men-dow-min, or the Corn, a Chippewa (Ojibwa) dwarf. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Green Bay (1827). |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | This house, built on a hill close to the Milwaukee River, was the only one in the city as late as 1840. The owner of the house, Martin [Matthias] Stein, a ... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | On a very hot day in August 1858 Hölzlhuber visited the farm of Jack Smith, an Irishman who had immigrated to Canada eleven years previously with his wife ... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a drawing of an Indian aiming his bow and arrow, with one foot standing on an earlier kill. |
| Date: | 1820 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Fort Dearborn (center) and Kinzie Mansion (right) after Seth Eastman's original drawing in 1820 for the U. S. Army. Several people are visible... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Chippewa (Ojibwa) men with canoes at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Chippewa (Ojibwa) men with canoes at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting of the exterior of the Eben Peck cabin by Mrs. E.E. Bailey. The location of this original painting is unknown. |
| Date: | 1814 |
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| Description: | Fort Shelby, built by the Americans during the War of 1812. In 1814 the fort surrendered to British forces led by Captain Andrew W. Bulger who renamed it F... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Man in canoe close to shoreline with a bridge in the background. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A male grounds keeper is driving a horse-drawn mower down a path on a park or estate grounds. Another man is leaning against a slender tree. Both men are w... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view from shoreline of the Wisconsin River in the Wisconsin Dells as seen from the "Old Dell House." A canoe is visible on the shore on the far r... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A man carries a canoe on his shoulders while portaging through a thickly-wooded area. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Collage of scenes on the upper Mississippi River, including people canoeing and sailing on the river. |
| Date: | 1821 |
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| Description: | An illustration of items manufactured by Indians, including a canoe, two paddles, moccasins, rolled mat, pipe bowl, and a beaded bag. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Photographic print of an engraved image showing a robed missionary standing in a birch bark canoe paddled by four Native Americans and another man who appe... |
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