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Peshtigo Fire

Date: 11 25 1871
Description: Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak...
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Guarding the Cornfields

Date: 1884
Description: Indian women standing on platforms make noise to scare birds from the cornfield.
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Historia Antipodum oder Newe Welt

Date: 1655
Description: Frontispiece to Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien (1655).
Map or Atlas

Recentissima Novi Orbis, Sive Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis Tabula

Date: 1685
Description: A detailed map of the western hemisphere showing cities, settlements, Native American land, rivers, lakes, mountains, the Great Lakes, and California as an...

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