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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...
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 ...
Print

America's Dairyland

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Description: Wisconsin promotional decal with a map of the state, with many cities marked and drawings of some Wisconsin icons: cheese, cows, deer, beer, Wisconsin Dell...
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.
Photograph

Les Crandall's Housekeeping Cottage's on Lake Namakagon

Date: 1934
Description: View from water towards shoreline of two boats at Les Crandall's Housekeeping Cottages on Lake Namakagon tied up in front of two log cabins. A deer (not kn...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Catalog Front and Back Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Front and back cover of catalog for harvesting machines. Front contains illustration of a torn hole with the eye of a buck looking through the hole. Superi...
Photograph

Hunters Posing with Dead Deer

Date: 1910
Description: Two hunters pose in a wooded area. Their kill, two deer, hang upside down from a wooden beam supported by branches of trees. The deer have what appear to b...
Photograph

Hunting Scene

Date: 
Description: Exterior portrait of two hunters posing with a deer carcass, a fox carcass and rifles on the edge of a stream in winter. Buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Hunting Scene

Date: 
Description: Outdoor portrait of two hunters posing with a deer carcass, a fox carcass and rifles on the edge of a stream in winter with snow on the ground. Building ar...
Photograph

Cigar Box Cover for Nelson Dewey Cigars

Date: 
Description: Cigar box cover with a head and shoulders portrait of Nelson Dewey. Beneath his portrait is a Native American headdress, a tomahawk, a stone club and a qui...
Map or Atlas

Deer Hunting in Wisconsin

Date: 1952
Description: This map shows lakes, rivers, railroads, highways, roads, hunting grounds and trails around Flambeau Flowage and Boulder Junction in the north, to Brantwoo...
Map or Atlas

Trails to Adventure, Gardner Dam Camp - White Lake, Wisconsin : 1,600 Woodland Acres Under Forest Management and Dedicated to the Outdoor Program of the Valley Council, Boy Scouts of America

Date: 1966
Description: This map shows trails, roads, creeks, alleged location of George Gardner's trading post, Boulder and Mud Lakes, and a portion of the Wolf River. The map al...
Map or Atlas

Le Cours de Missisipi, ou de St. Louis: Fameuse Riviere de L'Amerique Septentrionale aux Environs de Laquelle se Trouve le Païs Appelle Louisiane

Date: 1718
Description: This map shows the Mississippi River, with latitude and longitude coordinates, ad covers east to Lake Ontario and south to Illinois. The inset map (the top...
Book or Pamphlet

Kaizheosh, and his Band from Lake Vieu Desert

Date: 1851
Description: Pictograph E., Plate 63, "Kaizheosh, and his Band from Lake Vieu Desert. Michigan and Wisconsin." A group of symbols including birds, animals, a fish and a...
Map or Atlas

Planiglobii Terrestris Mappa Universalis: Utrumq Hemisphærium Orient. et Occidentale Repræsentans ex IV Mappis Generalibus

Date: 1746
Description: This world map from the German mathematician, historian, and geographer Johann Matthias Hase shows the major cities, islands, and the major political divis...
Map or Atlas

America Septentrionalis

Date: 1636
Description: Map of North America, divided into regions, and showing some rivers, lakes, settlements, cities, mountains, and Native American land. Of the Great Lakes on...
Map or Atlas

Canada ou Nouvelle France: Suivant les Nouvelles Observations de Mess'rs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, etc.: Augmenteés de Nouveau

Date: 1740
Description: Map including the regions and cities of the northern half of North America. Native American land, rivers, lakes, mountains are labeled. Mountains, marshes,...
Map or Atlas

Partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada avec l'Isle de Terre-Neuve et de Nouvelle Escosse, Acadie et Nouv. Angleterre avec Fleuve de St. Laurence

Date: 1759
Description: Map of north eastern Canada and parts of New England, showing settlements, cities, portages, Native American land, mountains, lakes, and rivers. The unusua...
Drawing

Deer Hunting Scene

Date: 11 1963
Description: In the woods, a man is cooking over a campfire, while a deer carcass is hanging from the branch of a tree. Sid's poem accompanying the image in the newspap...

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