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| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting of the second Fort Crawford, built 1829-1835. Two men are in a boat in the water in the foreground. The first Fort Crawford at Pra... |
| 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: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Fort Crawford ruins. This image may be even earlier than 1875; by the 1880's almost nothing was left of the actual fort compound buildings. Men are sitting... |
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| Description: | An illustrated view of Fort Union (on the North Dakota-Montana boundary), with an Indian encampment. |
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| Description: | A Christmas Card with two views. The on on the left is featuring an image of a girl sledding while wearing winter gear, and on the right is a photograph of... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Fort Sumpter [sic]. There are several men and a boat on the shoreline in the foreground. Plate 56 |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | One of the Confederate defenses surrounding the city. This view is of the inside of the earthworks which includes two cannons. A Union soldier sits as a lo... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Two men stand on either side of an opening in the earthworks at Allatoona Pass. Mountains are in the distance. Plate 28 |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View down to valley of Union soldiers posing on the roof of a log building. A log bridge crosses a stream, and many trees are on the hillsides. Plate 05... |
| Date: | 07 1863 |
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| Description: | A stereograph made by Mathew Brady about two weeks after the battle of Gettysburg, showing his two assistants gazing eastward from the extreme right of the... |
| Date: | 08 22 1943 |
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| Description: | Corporal Eugene Cierzynski of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (left) instructs Corporal Edgar Hourscht of Trosky, Minnesota (right), on how to operate a D-8 Caterpill... |
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| Description: | A man is sitting on a horse in front of the cast and crew of the film "The Adventures of Marco Polo." Mountains are in the background. |
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| Description: | Cast members of the film "The Adventures of Marco Polo" standing in the entryway of a fortress. Marco Polo (Gary Cooper) is holding the hand of Binguccio (... |
| Date: | 04 18 1888 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of fireplace ruins on the site of an old French fort, possibly built by Nicholas Perrot. There is an electric pole behind the fireplace and a g... |
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| Description: | Mortar camouflaged against aerial observation. The camouflage has been prepared so carefully that one could walk by the piece at a short distance without n... |
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| Description: | The highest artillery position in Europe on Ortler (Mount Ortles). |
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| Description: | The highest machinegun position in Europe on the Ortler glacier. |
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| Description: | Guard in front of a fortified position on the glacier at an elevation of over 3500 meters. |
| Date: | 05 08 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing by a sign, near a fence, marking the former location of Fort Antoine. |
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