Date: | 1853 |
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Description: | Illustration of the Capital house, a first-class hotel, copied from page 320 of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. |
Date: | 05 1849 |
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Description: | Fort Leavenworth with trees, buildings and American flag. The fort was established by Colonel Henry Leavenworth to protect the Santa Fe trail against the I... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Drawing of the C.H. & L.J. McCormick Reaper Manufactory (McCormick Reaper Works). The factory was built after the Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed the origin... |
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Description: | View of a fort with fortified walls and a flag flying from the fort. A river runs on the right of the image. A boat with sails floats on the river. Sold... |
Date: | 1851 |
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Description: | Several men rowing in a boat near Fort Howard that has an American Flag, barracks, and various related military buildings enclosed behind a wall. |
Date: | 1863 |
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Description: | Four boats shown. One is a repair boat and the other two the gunboats "Cincinnatti" [sic] and "Lexington." There is a steamboat marked "Marie Denin"... |
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Description: | The "Essex" (New Era) transformed into a gunboat, at anchor. Next to it is a smaller boat. |
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Description: | "Ferry 'New Era' being transformed into a gunboat at St. Louis." Drawing includes workers building with lumber. |
Date: | 02 15 1862 |
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Description: | "The 2nd and 7th Iowa and the 52nd Indiana headed by General Smith storming up the rebel works at Fort Donelson causing its surrender to General Grant the ... |
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Description: | "Comisary [sic] Steamer — Pittsburgh Landing." Steamboat on river near Shiloh, Tennessee. |
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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: | 1889 |
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Description: | Illustration of the Wisconsin State Capitol with an American flag displayed on the dome. |
Date: | 1865 |
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Description: | Harvey Hospital, or the Soldiers' Orphans Home. The main octagon section was the home of Governor Farwell, and the wing of wood was added in 1862 and used ... |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Originally printed in the Centennial Records of the Women of Wisconsin on page 37. The elevated view illustrates the large houses and the surrounding bustl... |
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Description: | View of Chicago from Chicago River. The homes of John Dean, J. Baptiste Beaubien, Dr. Walcott, and John Kinzie are identified by number. Fort Dearborn can ... |
Date: | 1857 |
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Description: | John Tice and Alexander Grant helping George W. Dawson from a floating piece of debris into a lifeboat after the sinking of the steamer Central America<... |
Date: | 12 17 1862 |
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Description: | Illustration depicting a battle. In the foreground injured soldiers are gathered on and around the porch and yard of a house. In the background are columns... |
Date: | 06 1880 |
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Description: | Illustration of the Interstate Exposition Building,the site of the Republican National Convention. |
Date: | 12 1868 |
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Description: | Engraved view of four women racing on bicycles. Spectators in the background are behind a fence. |
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