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Aftermath of Peshtigo Fire

Date: 1871
Description: Aftermath of Peshtigo fire on October 8, 1871. Devastated landscape with deer carcass in foreground. The Peshtigo fire razed the small town of approximatel...
Print

Junction of the Yellowstone River with the Missouri

Date: 1832
Description: Junction of the Yellowstone River and the Missouri River.
Drawing

Porcupine Mountains

Date: 1854
Description: Drawing of the Porcupine Mountains on Lake Superior. A deer is standing in the lake drinking water. A man is on the rock ledge above the shoreline and is a...
Print

Antelope Shooting

Date: 1844
Description: Indian with rifle in prone position hunting antelope (Plate 20).

"The antelope of the prairies and Rocky Mountains of America, which I believe to be diff...

Print

Chicahominys Become "New Englishmen"

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from near Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, ca. 1614. The Chickahominy tribe's proximity to Jamestown meant they had early contact with the English....
Drawing

Benjamin Walker Castle

Date: 1870
Description: Benjamin Walker Castle, 1862-1893, 900 block East Gorham Street. There are two deer are the left near trees, and two people are on horseback near the front...
Photograph

Dead Deer on the Highway

Date: 1968
Description: A Wisconsin game warden removes a dead deer in the snow that had been struck by a vehicle from a rural Vernon County highway next to a deer crossing sign.
Photograph

Hunters Carrying Deer in Woods

Date: 1910
Description: Hunters dragging deer from woods. In the center is Frank Langeois, son of Joseph Jr.
Poster

Neil Young Promotional Poster

Date: 07 1972
Description: Poster created by Madison-based Johnathan Chritton, most likely to commemorate the release of the album "Harvest" (1972), featuring Neil Young playing an a...
Poster

Pennsylvania Railroad Travel Poster: In Old Kentucky

Date: 1930
Description: An original lithograph promoting Kentucky and the Pennsylvania Railroad through an artist's depiction of two men dressed in buckskin, wearing raccoon hats ...
Photograph

Hunters With Dead Deer

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Description: Two hunters and their dogs sit in front of three hanging deer and an animal fur strung from a wooden beam. There are trees and hills in the background.
Photograph

Les Crandall's Housekeeping Cottages

Date: 1935
Description: Log cabins on forested shoreline of Namakagon Lake. A young deer is standing in front of wooden rowboats on the shoreline.
Postcard

Santa and Girl in Sleigh

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Description: Photographic postcard of Santa and a young girl, Mary Jane Turner, in his sleigh. Her head is next to his and her arm is around his shoulders. Reindeer can...
Photograph

Locked Antlers

Date: 02 1924
Description: Two dead bucks with locked antlers are nearly buried in snow. The heads were mounted and hung in the Hotz family Europe Lake cottage until they were stolen...
Photograph

Locked Antlers

Date: 02 1924
Description: Two dead whitetail bucks with locked antlers, in deep snow near a rock outcropping.
Photograph

Locked Antlers

Date: 02 1924
Description: Two men examine the heads of two whitetailed bucks with locked antlers. A dog stands alongside one of the men.
Photograph

Locked Antlers

Date: 1924
Description: Two men hold the heads of a pair of whitetail bucks with locked antlers. There is a boy and a dog in the background near a rock outcropping and snow is on ...
Postcard

White-Tailed Deer

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a white-tailed deer in the forest. Autumn leaves are on the ground. Caption reads: "Babcock, Wis."
Postcard

Deer at Feeding Trough

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Description: Photographic postcard view of a winter scene of a group of deer in the forest around a feeding trough in the snow. Caption reads: "Babcock, Wis."
Book or Pamphlet

The Buckeye Catalog Cover

Date: 1884
Description: C. Aultman & Co. catalog cover. Features a chromolithograph of a woman holding flowers in her skirt. The woman is standing next to a buck who is wearing a ...

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