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| Date: | 1851 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 09 1825 |
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| Description: | Treaty at Prairie du Chien, with Fort Crawford seen in the background. This treaty negotiated between Governor William Clark and Governor Lewis Cass and ov... |
| 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: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Nine men arrive at Fort William by canoe. Fort William, also called Kaministiguia, was the Hudson's Bay fur trading post. Men are standing along the opposi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the surrender of Black Hawk at Fort Crawford in 1832. |
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| Description: | Diorama in the Milwaukee Public Museum depicting Black Hawk's surrender on August 27, 1832 at Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien. |
| 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: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Horse racing of Sioux Indians near Fort Pierre. Three Sioux Indians on horseback in foreground and Fort Pierre in distance. |
| Date: | 06 19 1912 |
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| Description: | A group of people posing in front of the Camp Randall Memorial Arch during its dedication. |
| Date: | 09 10 1875 |
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| Description: | View looking west across the area once occupied by Camp Randall during the Civil War and towards the Breese Stevens farm property. The Madison Centennial ... |
| Date: | 09 10 1879 |
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| Description: | Crowd at the Camp Randall fairgrounds watching a horse race, part of that year's Wisconsin State Fair. Carriages and people are near buildings on the left,... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | Drawing of a soldier holding a cup, standing next to his bunk at Fort Holt. Civil War firearms are in the closet on the right. Another man is in the backgr... |
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| Description: | A magazine (storage, usually for ammunition) at Farmington near Grand Junction (Tennessee). Soldiers are working around a storage area dug into the raised ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1823 |
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| Description: | British evacuation of their fort at Prairie du Chien after the end of the War of 1812. Fort Shelby, the first fort at Prairie du Chien, was built in 1814 b... |
| Date: | 07 07 1929 |
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| Description: | Miss Mary Prescott and Mrs. William McMahon, grandaughter and great grandaughter, respectively, of Pierre Paquette, appeared at a meeting called by the Wis... |
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| Description: | View through a window of Indians conversing with traders. Caption reads: "Trade-Room [sic], Hudson Bay Company's Fort, In The Plain Country". |
| Date: | 07 17 1917 |
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| Description: | ROTC engineers, probably at Fort Sheridan, in training for trench construction. Victor Morris of Milwaukee, in whose wartime album this photograph appears,... |
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