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| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing bel... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Christopher Columbus begins his first expedition, 1492. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Encounter with Indians during Christopher Columbus' first expedition in 1492. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Map from Drake Expedition, ca. 1585. |
| Date: | 1784 |
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| Description: | Plate 41. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska. |
| Date: | 1784 |
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| Description: | Plate 43. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska. |
| Date: | 1784 |
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| Description: | Plate 45. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska. |
| Date: | 1784 |
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| Description: | Plate 50. Portrait from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska. |
| Date: | 1784 |
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| Description: | Plate 57. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska. |
| Date: | 1820 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Fort Dearborn (center) and Kinzie Mansion (right) after Seth Eastman's original drawing in 1820 for the U. S. Army. Several people are visible... |
| Date: | 07 14 1894 |
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| Description: | Cartoon depicting "King Debs" a man wearing a crown representing Debs American Railway Union, sitting atop the highway of trade. |
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| Description: | An engraving based on a drawing by Alexander Simplot of the Platteville Brewery (spelled Plattville). It is an elevated perspective showing the main buildi... |
| Date: | 10 1844 |
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| Description: | A variant of a wood engraving dated October, 1844. Incorporated as the villige of Southport in 1841 (so-named because it was the southern-most natural harb... |
| Date: | 01 04 1862 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the city of Superior and Lake Superior, also depicting railroad piers, Minnesota Point, and the steamboat "Star". The engraving appears on a l... |
| Date: | 06 18 1864 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of gunboats passing the dam in the Red River near Alexandria. |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Two-story home with sloping roof. One man is whipping a team of eight cattle while another man drives the plow behind them. To the left stands a man near a... |
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| Description: | Drawing of Grand Turk steamboat on the river's edge. Print is part of a series collected in Lewis' "Das Illustririte Mississippithal". |
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| Description: | Drawing of the mouth of the Wisconsin River from a scenic overlook depicting a steamboat in the distance. Print is part of a series collected in Lewis' "Da... |
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